What you're looking at is a magnificent illustration by the very talented JaviDLuffy, commissioned by Yours Truly. It is also, in my honest opinion, the best damn erotic fan art of the Woman in Gray!
Having already committed to ordering a commission, I found it to be very difficult to figure out what I would like to see from another artist. After all, many artists do not commission art from their colleagues as they'd rather take a shot at it themselves; the majority of fun in drawing comes from the very process itself, getting the idea from your head down to paper. It wasn't until many months later when I finally remembered one particular source of frustration that start during my early days as a smut-doodling novice and never went away: the Woman in Gray, known to masses as the third spy from the late Antonio Prohias' Spy vs. Spy (vs. Spy) comic strip featured in MAD Magazine. Prohias' style is very difficult to nail as it doesn't seem to have any particular rules regarding proportions and perspective, or rather any rules may be crudely disregarded in order to make room for humour. Add the varying ink line thickness to this and you've got a perfect way to drive me mad (pun partially intended). The first time I attempted to draw her was in 1998 and the last was slightly less than a month ago. I only have ONE finished, very wooden-like pin-up of her where I actually got her face right from around 2006 or so but it's so utterly boring to look at it's almost as good as a badly incomplete sketch.
Seeing that I had been unable to come up with a decent image of her, I shifted my problems to JaviDLuffy, complete with two very rough tablet sketches (that took hours to draw because I sucked at it), a basic idea of the character sitting in chair in that pose doing the breast squeeze/lift while covering her privates with the other hand and a bunch of reference photographs taken from adult magazines as well as scans from Prohias' original strips. As I stated before, he nailed it. On top of it, he shaded it in black and white and put up some wanted posters of the two male spies leering at her.
10/10, would commission again.
Also, as you've probably noticed by now, I'm adding a new tag/image category for my blog called ordered art, which will refer to any picture I have commissioned from another artist.
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