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Gallery I: Hairy Art

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	A young specimen (hastily sketched)
	Prefren is a good (though often quite dirty-minded) little mathematician boy from Jordan, who always keeps his sleeves down. But he can't hide the hair that sticks out of his collar ...
	Some orientalism. This guy actually reminds me of an old date of mine, called Amir.  (Or was it Aqeem??) Anyway, he taught me the Arabic words for the male genitals, which I, unfortunately, have forgotten by now ...
	Even more orientalism, this time in a couple of colours. (Rub-al-Khali is the 'empty quarter' of desert on the Arabian peninsula.)
	This not only reminds of Amir/Aqeem, but it's actually supposed to be him.  If you think the colours are kitschy, you should see what a sunset over Jaffa really looks like ... This nice person's nose seems to be the semitic equivalent of the 'Russian nose'.
	Another Hairy Encounter from real life. On the night train from Petersburg to Moscow, myself and my comrades once shared the compartment with a young Tatar from Ufa, whose name was Vadim.  We were preparing to sleep, and I had already taken off my glasses, when I could discern through my half-blindness that Vadim was taking off his T-shirt. I wondered if he was hairy, so I put on my glasses again and pretended to look for something in my bag, while trying to ogle at his indeed quite hairy chest through the mirror on the door. Next morning, when we got up, Vadim half-sat on the bunk with the blanket down by his waist, and said 'Good morning' to me, smiling knowingly ...
	A sketch of a little sailor mending his little sail. A smaller coloured version is on the Main Hairy Page, but unfortunately, I only coloured that small version, and haven't got the nerve to colour this bigger version, too. So, you'll have to be satisfied with the original sketch, all natural and hand-pencilled, without any interference by computer apart from the scanning.
	An anonymous, hairy boxer. Partly based on a photograph by Thomas Wågström, from the photography book "Boxare", Raster Förlag 2000. (The guy in the original photograph is much cuter, though ...) The little photo book is warmly recommended, as it contains many more hairy boxers. A present for my mum. Drawn with indian ink, Staedtler's pigment markers (04 and 08), a calligraphy reservoir pen, and ink wash. I like the way his chest hair is back-lighted ...
	The Persian cab driver Ardachir Makhmalbaf - one of the, quite unfortunately, still rather few hairy men figurating in my comics. Read the sequence where he appears in Eva's Escapades.

Drawn by Tinet Elmgren 2001-2003