I may do a followup post on Sunday, but I’ve done so much with this piece lately, I just had to share today.
I’m still going on the Sadistic Skyline piece. It’s been a very complicated Fetish art piece to complete. As much as I love drawing erotica, a tricky part of erotica, animation and comics is many times, you’re not just drawing people. In the background, and part of the piece as a whole there are things that are part of the story.
Saturday mornings lately, I draw while watching Japanese cartoons. It started with Funimation’s Soul Eater, which is fucking addictive. Lately I’ve been catching up on Galaxy Express 999, which is done by my animation hero, Reji Matsumoto. This piece was partially inspired by Matsumoto’s skylines and backgrounds of futuristic buildings. Drawings like this become funny unto itself, because you want it to be believable. Thing is, when doing something like this, you think whataminow, an architect!? Truth is, artists, especially comic artists, movie artists, and animators, have bunches and bunches of reference materials because you can’t just draw all of this out of your head. There’s got to be something to start from.
I’m not going to show you the full shot in progress, but instead talk about the details that you’d miss if I just showed the whole thing. It used to be frustrating that publishers would shrink my artwork to tiny sizes. Sometimes an 11×14 piece would get dropped all the way down to two inches high. Many times, the piece overall would hold up, but it really fucks with the details. The art was made to be reduced a little, but these art directors would go overboard.
It felt really good to get in little spots like the people playing in the high rise in the background, the reflection of the scenes further in the room. I also spent a lot of time looking over towers in sci-fi and tweaking the shading of windows to make the characters stand out here.
Something that may get attention of all things is the Mistress jilling off while she’s canning. It blows me away how asexual hardcore kinkters can be. I’ve known of Dommes that publicly refuse to admit they have intercourse, or even masturbate. Part of this comes from the trade side, where sex for money is taboo to speak about among pros. Others look at this as a control angle, where sexual pleasure can only be derived from causing another pain, or receiving it. There’s many stories and tales of subbies who are never allowed to release, and Dommes who are so cold, they only are satiated by watching their prey have their genitals tweaked and beaten.
To each their own, but fuck! Let a Domme get off if she wants to! It dawned on me I’ve rarely seen a top masturbate while doing their thing. Kinky sex is about, well, kinky sex. We’re supposed to sexualize this stuff. A great way to get a subbie to enjoy pain is to give some positive sexual feedback while flogging, spanking, or whatever suits you. Why not the opposite? I may not get off so much on spanking someone, but maybe if I stroked myself while doing it, I’d appreciate it much more.