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Arms over head (AOH): Thread for aesthetics and manipulation pool
- Thread starter batak_b
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I was thinking Noah was supposed to take 2 of every living thing. If he takes a naked girl on board, he only needs to find one more.
Oooh, I've suddenly come over all religious!
Well, a bit.
Congratulations on successfully 'puppeting' her arms to produce a magnificent image!
And thanks, @batak_b, for a fun thread!
Marcius
Tribune
This old thread might be of interest to the participants.
So I had a go with the puppet warp on 15(2), it isn't perfect but, as Jollyrei has so ably demonstrated, it can turn an AOH into a crux:
That's really very nice. She's got a lovely day for it, too.
I suppose she would perhaps prefer to look out over the bay, but this is definitely more aesthetically pleasing for the viewer.
You've chosen a perfect background for the image of the girl, with the ambient lighting of early evening or late-afternoon.
Jackie1111
Tribune
Professional bikini models like myself make use of the AOH pose quite often. We are very aware of how sexy the pose is, and the way it draws the male gaze. We understand how it tantalizes by uplifting our breasts, highlighting our hourglass figures, and displaying our armpits (yes, we know that some of you have a deep admiration for armpits).
Allow me to demonstrate....
Allow me to demonstrate....
if you sneeze, that top will be gone, Jackie!Professional bikini models like myself make use of the AOH pose quite often. We are very aware of how sexy the pose is, and the way it draws the male gaze. We understand how it tantalizes by uplifting our breasts, highlighting our hourglass figures, and displaying our armpits (yes, we know that some of you have a deep admiration for armpits).
Allow me to demonstrate....
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montycrusto
Guest
Must be exhausting holding your arms up like that.. perhaps leather wrist cuffs and a chain might help?Professional bikini models like myself make use of the AOH pose quite often. We are very aware of how sexy the pose is, and the way it draws the male gaze. We understand how it tantalizes by uplifting our breasts, highlighting our hourglass figures, and displaying our armpits (yes, we know that some of you have a deep admiration for armpits).
Allow me to demonstrate....
Jackie1111
Tribune
if you sneeze, that top will be gone, Jackie!
Just one of the hazards of the job. As hazards go, it's not such a bad one.
Jackie1111
Tribune
Must be exhausting holding your arms up like that.. perhaps leather wrist cuffs and a chain might help?
Why thank you for the very kind offer! Yes, I do believe it would help.
The Cathedral Women's Guild stages a passion play.
From this original image:
Tell you what, let's be kind.
Let's not tell her that really was an elephant she heard, and that really is a fully-laden ark passing along the flooded street behind her....
So I had a go with the puppet warp on 15(2), it isn't perfect but, as Jollyrei has so ably demonstrated, it can turn an AOH into a crux:
This is a very tasteful, devotional image, Jolly. We can just see enough of the cross to identify what is going on, and the close up view precludes the unpleasant sight of nails and blood on the crucified Vanessa. Ryonen appears rapt in some kind of mystic concentration on the left and Hayden Winters bows with equal solemnity on the right.
Both of the attendant figures have seen previous use in your crux manips, in these same poses, although I believe this is the first time they have appeared together in a single illustration. Cathedral Crux is a theme which was also explored by Messa and myself in the thread, 'Original Manipulations by Cruxforums Members'.
This next image looks like Mia, the star of your latest illustrated crux tale, Wragg. This time the rainfall provides the perfect occasion for exploiting the moisture on her skin. The presence of the ark implies an impending flood of catastrophic proportions, but otherwise this somewhat Surreal scene is set firmly in modern times. Mia is secured to a cast iron lamp post, and the preceding lamp post carries a clock, symbolising Time, which is evidently running out for anyone tied to a lamp post...
The model is neatly cut out or masked (I cannot identify which technique is used) and the background elements are composed from multiple sources, all skilfully blended together. I would speculate that the sky, the street, the clock, Mia, her lamp post, and the ark are from six separate sources. I think the blue water is probably part of the ark source image, and both are pushing the limits of resolution on a canvas large enough to do justice, in close up, to the fine detail in the main figure.
The significant clues to a composite construction are the two different directions of rainfall on either side of the picture, and a lack of rain emerging from the storm clouds. Otherwise, the overall blue-grey tones provide a good sense of visual unity. This effect might be achieved by the use of individual blending filters, although again, the subtle techniques employed here are far from obvious.
The last image is indicative of a prolific output - within twenty four hours of the flood picture, Wragg presents another demonstration of his crux manip technique. Not Mia this time, although that is indisputably the timber of her cross from the 'Gadriella' story, now accommodating a new model, subjected to a 'puppet warp' of the arms.
In practised hands the warping tool provides for a range of movement for a whole figure or selected parts (in this case the arms) thereof. I have only occasionally tried this method in my own pictures, and I believe that Wragg and Jolly both have rather more experience of it. Thanks to both of you for these inspiring examples of your art!
Crux-Emperor Baracus X
Rectidolor
Here's my first contribution to the mainstay of Page 3,and Glamour photos....Arms-up ladies.
twonines
LIMERICUS
With any luck!if you sneeze, that top will be gone, Jackie!
twonines
LIMERICUS
No 3, wow, now that really is tumescence, Barb, eat your heart out!
Crux-Emperor Baracus X
Rectidolor
My next batch,of lovelies...
