Antonio had agreed to do it. His group would be graded so backing out wasn't an option.
They gathered at the studio. Tony, as he was usually called, spent time at the gym first going through a series of exercises and weight lifting that left him sore but pumped.
Earl was with him, suggesting different and sometimes new ways to stretch, pump and make his body bulge.
Antonio was selected by Sheryll. Everyone knew he had been graced with a nice body. And his perchance for swimming and working out capitalized on what genetics had given him.
But it was his Professor's comment that gave Sheryll the idea.
"You look like...." the man began but stopped. Another day he apologized to Tony for reacting and showed him the large book.
Tony looked at the pages. It was no surprise, he had relatives who had told him the same thing before. He had the face of David the statue.
So he let someone cut and curl his hair and now he stood in the center of the room totally naked as Sheryll and the others in the group prepared him.
He had been proud as most adolescents were of the chest hair that appeared early in his life, the fur that adorned his legs and buttocks, even the visable hair on his boyish face. After all body hair is the signal that a boy is no longer a boy.
But that didn't match their goal.
So as he stood naked, his fellow classmates went to work, spreading shaving cream here and there and shaving his skin smooth.
"Before we start, I'm gonna warn you, with all this attention, I'm going to get an erection." he said as he began stripping naked. He had already hardened when Earl touched him here and there in the gym suggesting ways to pump up places he hadn't thought about.
"It's ok, I have brothers" Sheryll said "besides we'll see if the rumor about Italians are true".
The group laughed adding various other comments. Earl smiled. He had already seen the bulge. Shawn and Mason tried not to show their interest but all guys secretly like to compare what they see to what they see in the mirror.
Tony stood naked trying to think about other things, about friends, about what he had to do once they were finished with him and about getting the grade for himself and the others he wanted.
"World History and the Impact of the Arts" looked like a class of lectures, essays, theories and interesting way to get 12 hours. But the Professor had turned the concept into trips, research, special speakers some surprise celebrities and challenged students to demonstrate their interest and knowledge.
Such a project was this one. Large photographs of mens faces matching them to historic figures were already prepared. There would be comments about how people preceived and defined beauty over the centuries. And then final presentation would be revealing Antonio's photo as himself, replaced on stage by Antonio as David.
"Shit" he said. His cock was expanding. The group taunted him, laughed and applauded as his uncircumsized Italian penis seemed to keep growing admidst their attention.
"I told you" he said. Stacy stopped holding his testicles which she had been shaving smooth.
"Would you rather have Earl do this?" She asked with a naughty smile. Everyone knew there was some kind of special friendship between him and Earl.
"Doesn't matter, touching is touching" Tony said "maybe I should uh go and take care of this".
"No just let it take it's course think of something else. You want it to be uh impressive on stage later. If you take care of it, it may shrink too small" Earl said in a studied and apparently learned manner.
Sheryll had everyone talk about something else, turned up the music and everyone acted like they ignored the massive meat as they shaved other parts of Antonio's body.
Out of the corner of their eye however, they continued to absorb the image that interested them the most.
Tony started singing with the CD's that were playing and eventually the rigidness subsided into half hard meat still obviously filled with blood.
His shaven armpits, his sculptured pubic hair and newly smooth legs, buttocks began to remind everyone of the statues of David that surrounded them all as they worked. His prepared haircut and their work turned Antonio into a living image of the centuries old sculpture.
"I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm getting excited" Sheryll said. Others agreed and even shy Shawn spoke up, "Hell I've been hard since he stripped".
Everyone laughed since Shawn rarely spoke loud enough to reveal anything about himself.
The painting began as the Italian skin color turned white. The tan line his Speedos gave him dissappeared.
The convolutions of his muscle groups stood out more as the room light worked with the white color adding shape and shadows.
"Shit, you look hot" Earl said. Nobody reacted to Earl's blatant admiration. They not only knew he had a thing for Antonio in the first place but they agreed.
The usually slovenly dressed, long haired, lightly moutached classmate was hot to say the least. His blue gree eyes, easy manner and thick lipped smile had established him as a likable guy on campus.
Antonio's antics in the pizza parlor, beer drinking with buddies, enthusiastic fanlike support of campus sports as well as his own moderate success on the swim team had defined him as one of the gang.
His occasional shirtless walks across the campus had made heads turn and eyes widen. Tony had enjoyed that experience and liked the attention as anyone would. But he was into politics, history and creative writing. Those were the basis of his pride and plans for the future.
"Shit man you are hot" more then one guy had approached him. Except when he was turned on or so horny the experience was welcomed, Tony avoided any possibility of a relationship based on his looks.
Tony closed his eyes so the whitened lids hid his mesmorizing eye color. He moved his arms to match the memorized positions.
"Christ" Sheryll stared. Her idea had taken form. In front of her was the statue of David, which, posed correctly and yet breathing.
The audience watched the photos and listened to the dialog and supporting music. They laughed when they were supposed to and applauded when the picture of Antonio was matched with the statue of David that was revealed.
But when the lights changed and Tony moved, they gasped, cheered and applauded wildly seeing the naked classmate was indeed the prepared and painted statue.
The group jumped up and down and drank champagne from plastic cups. Anthony wearing a towel around his waist recieved the congratulations of many of the surprised onlookers and his Professor.
The "A" he said the group would get was indeed welcomed.
And when asked, Tony blushed but that wasn't seen behind the white paint. He handed Earl the towel and posed for the many who used cell phones and cameras to take his photo.
"If my mother sees this, I'm fucked" he said and many laughed.
"So how easy will it be to get all that off?" he was asked. Earl answered "He has help"
Their eyes met and smiles revealed their unspoken and unplanned agreement.
"You gonna owe me more then a grade" Sheryll said to Earl.
He turned his head away from the white back and buttocks Antonio revealed as he walked away.
Earl smiled and mouthed the words, "thank you"
Photos of Antonio in and out of white paint were on display for weeks until some conservative authority demanded that his crotch be hidden.
Earl didn't mind as he had claimed those for his own private art show anyway. And Antonio agreed for art's sake.