Culled from the artist's informal sketchbooks from the past ten years, <i>The Male Nude</i> is a collection of over 180 nude and erotic line drawings depicting the male form and queer sexuality. When compared to the bold colors of the artist's first book, <i>Retrospective</i>, the black and white drawings in <i>The Male Nude</i> evoke a feeling of browsing through the artist's private journals. Tice explores desire, pleasure, and lust through pencil and paper. His lines alternate between precise and controlled and free and loose, resulting in a body of work both sensual and sensitive.