Six years ago today I mustered up enough courage to publish my erotic fan art for the first time on WWOEC forums. It was a rather dull, unimpressive piece and I had even traced the character's face from a screenshot (*gasp*).
While never a piece I intended on releasing for the public, I did it
solely because the forums where I posted had rules that if just lurk
around and don't post anything, your account will get deleted.
Of
course, I could've simply just said 'hi', post a random comment on a
general thread or even upload some other fan art I had found elsewhere
to prevent losing my 'dlt' account, but being the neurotic mess I was back in the day, I couldn't possibly let my debut be
anything else but my personal contribution to the erotic fan art scene,
and as such it had to fulfill certain standards I had set up for myself.
I actually had two other pictures that I had finished but just didn't
like the way they looked (although the second one eventually ended up as
my third picture after getting slightly revamped) but in the end I felt it was more comfortable to ink and colour this older sketch instead.
Looking back, I can't help but facepalm at my younger self. Really? Was it that
important? Needless to
say, the first pic went largely unnoticed, and rightfully so. While I
still think there's conceptually nothing wrong with the pic, the
execution is just dull and I'm really bothered by the tracing. Still, I
prefer to keep the date as the official birthday of my online presence. Whenever that date occurs, my thoughts will often go back to that first year and how it
was both frightening and exciting at the same time. Meeting with other
people who felt this way about cartoon women, receiving both compliments
and criticism for the first time, getting to know people like Toonspew, Sadarax, Sniper Tomcat, Levelord, DarkDP
(some of who had been my idols in the years past)... it was a
life-changing experience, and one that would seriously impact on how I
try to spend some of my free time.
You can imagine how wonderful it would be to announce the release of the art archive in this same post but unfortunately that is not the case. In time, it will be completed, but right now I have to concentrate on other things in life. With things being the way they are, I also cannot say if there will or will not be a Desiree pic in the upcoming days as has been the tradition for many years (mostly because my second picture release ever depicted her in an erotic situation and was very well-received by the community). However, things will probably ease up a bit around April and when that happens, there's going to be new artwork coming up.
Six years... and I haven't really even started yet.
