Nice job hon! I must say, that is one really sexy... watermark. ;) Nah, I'm kidding. Good work. :3

Rawr, you know it. ;)

I wants to cuddle him!

Me too! :P

Hey now. >)

Oh, hush, you. I meant it in the way you'd want to cuddle a stuffed animal. Now begone. ;)

jealous? of me? XD

now, I'm truly impressed. you obviously learned a lot while your hiatus. I love it to bits, expression, colours, the clothes... what kind of underpants is that? :) no worries about the hand, maybe it's a bit too small, but otherwise it looks fine.
and, I'd like to have that sixpack for sure!

and all for $5, it's a steal!
*hugs*

Like I said. It is AMAZING what happens when you use references. :P For my own personal work I don't like to use them because it can be quite a hassle looking for a good stock photo, but I want to do a good job for other people. :) As for the underwear, I think he's wearing Fur Of The Loom. ~_^

Pfft. I meant "Furr-uit of the Loom." Dork.

*giggle* should have known. :)

you should put up a collection of interesting poses for reference, be it poses itself or clothes, or backgrounds, or all three. at one point you know them so well you could draw freely without any closer look at references, and it would look good. you need to know how something looks like, you know? especially those aspiring artists who start with cartoons or manga make their stuff look awkward because they don't know what the reality shoudl look like, and abstrahize from it. instead they try to copy, which seldom works out. I have seen somebody's manga-ispired artworks somewhere... technically good, nice characters and colours and so on... only the mouth was missing on them all. took me a while to realize that a white strip on top of the cheekbone was supposed to be the mouth. ~.~'

http://www.posemaniacs.com/

here you have a lot of (human) figures in all kinds of poses, and you can freely transform the perspective of them in virtually all directions. and I believe you can even print them out for your own purposes...
also, collecting photos from online catalogues of internet shops in clothes/underwear/swimwear, and fetish shops can provide you with a lot of references of all kind. ^^

*earscritch*

Heeeey, that's a pretty handy reference! Nice! That's a good idea you have there. I just shy away from using the same pose more than a couple of times. Then again, if I'm doing a lot of commission/personal work, and I have a lot of variety, maybe a couple of similar poses here and there wouldn't be so bad. :P

there is always room for variation in the same pose, so go ahead. :)

and, glad to be of service. :)