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“A lot of the time I go for them because they create good photos and not just because they’re good-looking, but I do see why people question that.” Although he bills his art as Latino appreciation, he’s aware of the importance of representation. “It has been pointed out to me that I draw a lot of Latin men, or men who are obviously in shape,” he says of conversations he’s had with followers online. He’s also realising that LGBTQ artists in particular face automatic pressure to create positive, expansive representation of their community. But I’ve seen other accounts get shut down for less and I’ve gained a following now. “I’ve done maybe one or two drawings where you can see penis, and honestly I have thought about posting more nudity on my story. “Censorship is definitely a blow,” he laments, citing Tumblr’s crackdown on adult content and Instagram’s unpredictable guidelines – all it takes is one rogue follower and a report to get even relatively tame images pulled.
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Papi maintains that there’s no specific political goal to his art, but even posting sexually-charged images is subversive in today’s age of sanitised social media. It’s not just stills either from Vaginal Davis to David Hoyle, the history of performance art has been hugely enhanced by queer and trans pioneers. Illustrators like Tom of Finland have blazed trails through queer history by drawing hyper-masculine couples fucking one another to disrupt gay male stereotypes, whereas the overtones of same-sex desire in David Hockney’s work were subtly radical in the context of 1960s Britain, which was only just warming up to decriminalising gay sex. His work is also inadvertently political, as most queer art tends to be.
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“I actually uploaded some pictures from my archive back onto my grid so people could see the progression from 2016 to now,” explaining his desire to reassure budding illustrators that practice really does make perfect.
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“I thought I was really terrible! I didn’t want to overcharge them so I would ask for $10 which really isn’t much, but for me, it might as well have been $100 because I was being paid for something I genuinely loved.” Like many young artists, he funnelled this small profit back into his passion and bought himself an iPad to upgrade his work. “When people started messaging and asking if I charge for my work I was in shock,” he laughs. This following has also translated into a part-time job fulfilling commissions for clients, which he manages with the help of his boyfriend. He describes his art as “Latino appreciation” – a personal brand evident in his Instagram handle, which fuses the Spanish words for ‘cake’ and ‘daddy’ – which he shares on a regular basis to his captive audience of more than 7,000 Instagram followers. Now his account is filled with digitally-rendered muscle men in thongs, jockstraps, and not much else. “It was never something I really saw myself doing, but over time that changed.” “In high school, I honestly wasn’t online much, but then I found these artists that were drawing men,” he says, citing accounts like and as inspiration. The young, semi-anonymous artist first began sketching out flowers and inanimate objects in art classes a few years ago, but when he finally downloaded Instagram, his focus began to shift. It only takes a five second scroll through Instagram to stumble across a thirst trap, but for LA-based illustrator these aren’t just images, they’re inspiration.