βοΈ Conan's Youth
More of Conan cosplay from Danny... π
Cimmerians had long noticed that flexible boys were a whole lot luckier in battle than their strong but stiff friends. Flexibility became so popular in Cimmeria that it turned into an unspoken rule than each great warrior must possess a contortionist level physique. Gods and people frowned upon battles that didn't show off a plenty of extreme stretching...
Not only that but Cimmerians possessed quite an interesting sense of beauty, seeing extremely stretched bodies as something divine, immortalizing them in monuments and frescos.
Their wrestling tournaments were still strength contests but the winning condition was often to force the opponent into a specific contortion pose, e.g. make his head to touch his own crotch in a backbend, or make him sit on his own face, or stretch the opponent's legs into a 360 degree oversplit and interlock his feet until he's begging for mercy (or for more?), or twist the opponent's torso 180 or even 360 degrees around, etc, etc, etc...
Needless to say that such battles had two winners, the one who managed to force the other to bend was the winner on the strong side, while the other one who took the extreme bending was the winner on the flexible side. Both were praised and loved equally, and of course they greatly enjoyed each other too, spending the rest of the evening in each other's company as they couldn't wait to bend over...*cough* Anyway!
To become such great warriors, the youths had to start early and prepare themselves in two ways, first they trained to be flexible to not break anything in case their opponent happens to be stronger, second they trained to be strong themselves as it was against traditions to get bent without struggle. They trained their stamina for hours a day because one who runs out of stamina first would be most likely forced in bend.
Conan, ever since he could remember, loved his barbarian life to bits, always stretching as much as he could every day and always wrestling with his friends. At the end of the day he liked to relax upon the mountain, watching the sunset in his favorite backbend, dreaming about his adventures as a fully trained warrior...
-tbj
This is a dream come true! I hope more people could see the beauty in someone that is so virile and masculine yet so flexible, it's like conquering two oppsite things making it a whole.
The lightning is also amazing! Once again you just keep exceeding!! I love your art!
Daria <3
In the past I thought muscles would be too much but somehow his art shows how it can be done in beautiful ways, so it was really inspiring.
It is very interesting to see how differently image looks when body proportions are different than usual. Iam currious to see other poses for sure. But as whole idea (chain etc) goes I like previous image more. Still this one is also good - esp legs and musculature as whole is very well done.
Shifty
The image is very sword and sorcery.
Danny truly appears to be barbarously hewn from stone, his body perfectly lapidary. There is a feline ferocity about his calm survey of the scenery below.
His savage vascular muscle mass is so coarsely textured against the brooding crimson sky-such an alluring contrast, like flesh and blood. His veins so ruggedly striated upon firmly outlined muscles, I love the perfect lines that run from his hips through thigh and calf. The muscle tone and the veins of his obscured leg are beautiful.
I wonder how far his equally rugged manhood would hang if not for his barbarian loincloth.
Thanks for yet another brilliant work of art Yuni.
Wrestling against someone like him is a win-win situation. He can pin me at any time with a crotch-to-head-hold or bum-to-face-pin... especially it's his crotch or buttocks. :3