The online portfolio of the Washington DC based artist Scott G. Brooks is hard to classify. Charmingly executed pencil drawings, and paintings with a sweet, childlike look belie their dark, twisted content of sexuality, disfiguration and wierdness. Brooks' background as an illustrator of childrens' picture books is evident in the drawings, and this combined with the contrast of the very somber thematic content of the artworks give them a very special, haunting quality. Not all are obviously gay-themed, but an undercurrent of outsiderish gayness runs through it all. It's facinating on the whole, grotesque and funny - and expertly executed. Scott G. Brooks' online portfolio is very well worth a prolonged visit, I rate it 5 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Scott G. Brooks' homepage.

The website of the South African artist Moxy Hart is a mixed pleasure, but a pleasure none the less. A fun and charmingly refreshing interface leads the way to four galleries, consisting of nudes, portraits, drawings and something called the "Good Phallus". This last one is very original: mobiles made of coloured or transparent perspex, in the form of be-winged penises floating about under a peaceful cloud. Perhaps not the thing for everyone's drawing room, the artistic contrasting of the "forbidden" motive with the innocence of the object and material makes them interesting pieces of art on their own right - as well as good fun of course. As for the other sections, the drawings is not too good actually, but the nudes and especially the portraits are worth a visit. Mr Hart looks like an artist that has a lot of interesting things coming if he lets him self loose. As it is the gallery is still well worth a look.

I rate the gallery 2 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit Moxy Hart's online gallery.

As a site dedicated to black&white erotic photos of older, heavyset men, Among Gentlemen does not deliver too much. A total of 17 photos, and most of them rather bland, leaves this reviewer mostly cold. But this is not the complete picture: A small handful of the pictures are very good, a couple is arrestingly excellent. So if you have the patience to sort the chaff from the wheat, the site is worth a look. It seems that the gallery is very new, so one can hope that the proportion of good photos will increase over time.

I rate the gallery 2 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit the Among Gentlemen gallery.

The AfriBoy gallery is actually much more interesting than it looks at the first glance. Rather messily presented, the website gives little away of the many interesting artworks the site actually carries. The many paintings, watercolours and drawings in both ink and pencil are presented as rather uninteresting details, that seldom does credit to the whole piece of art. So it all runs down to clicking away on the thumbnail to see if a good - or not so very good at all - artwork turns up. The site is not uninteresting, with original thought in both the artworks and the accompanying text. A better presentation, and a heavier sorting of which artworks to include or not would have helped the gallery enormously.

The most interesting part of the site is the section "Notebooks" - where you actually can flip through the artist's sketchbooks on your own. A good idea, which gives a very special intimacy to seeing the artworks.

I rate the gallery 3 out of 6 stars.

Click here to visit the AfriBoy gallery of African male erotic art.