A small update on things

You have no idea how much this warms my heart.

 
Anyway, this post made me want to give you guys a slight update, or perhaps a clarification. I could post this on deviantART, but what I've noticed is that way too many people over there tend to not pay attention to what I'm actually saying, and just notice that I've been active, and then I get bombarded with requests and queries for commissions, and I just don't want to deal with that. As flattering as it is, I'd rather not make an appearance there since it might get way too many peoples' hopes up.

The clarification I need to make is that I am not retired, I am on an extended hiatus... although I can see why it is starting to look like a retirement to many. However, the thing is, I don't consider it as a full-on retirement unless I stop posting art completely, and if that time comes up, I will let you know about it. Right now, though, my biggest issue is that I don't have the time and privacy to do things like I used. I have also been steadily employed for a couple of years and it's great not being NEET and actually get to save up money instead of spending it all hand-to-mouth. I'm also no longer that spry twentysomething student with most of his lectures in the late afternoons, allowing room to just spend the vast majority of my days just having fun by myself and spending nights drawing cartoon porn. Unfortunately, despite years of doing this, I've not reached Fern levels of hastiness, so it still takes me days, if not weeks, to actually fix and finish a sketch into a proper drawing.

Now, about that small update... For the longest time, I used to think hyping isn't a good idea since if things change, you give people false hope. However, it's been so long since the last time I made any sort of non-art update I feel I should let you know in on what's coming up.

I am still drawing, and I still lurk around 4chan, though I don't go to /co/ as much as before and my IP range has been banned for some reason, which is why I haven't posted there for over three–four years now (this also means that if you see someone posting there as me, it's 100% NOT me). For example, I recently saw that thread about Monroe, from MAD Magazine, and despite my life-long hatred of that comic because of its 'misery porn' (as one Anon so eloquently put), I sketched a picture of Monroe fucking his mom. I've also lurked on enough Slylock Fox threads that I ended up making a tablet sketch of Cassandra Cat blowing some rich guy and stealing his goods while he's distracted. I also have a 5/6-page Maddie/Danny comic with the first page finished, and it'll be published when the rest of it is done. I've also noticed that my final 2018 commission for JAB recently leaked on Paheal, so that's something new for you guys. The Cassandra Cat pic is something I hope to get around finishing after New Year's Eve, the Monroe pic would be neat as well but we'll have to see. Bill Wray has a very distinctive way of inking his art and emulating that is going to be very, very hard. In the end, none of this happened, as I was not in the best of health and felt very exhausted during that time (wasn't COVID-19, though). Apologies.

There are also still several commissions I still have to finish, although it's taken embarrassingly long and I am once again offering a refund to the commissioner (UPDATE: the commissioner declined, so I guess those pieces will eventually get done).

There's also that backlog of material ranging all the way back to 2008, though most of the usable sketches are from 2011 onwards. There are partially inked pictures that I could finish. So yeah, there's plenty of stuff there that I think could be finished. Again, like I said, lack of time and privacy. It's murder to something like this. But hey, never say never, unless it's actually time for that. Eventually, the best of the best will be finished, even if it might take years. Just... don't expect huge slabs of new art every year, okay? I think one or two pieces every year might be more closer to reality, and most likely anything new will be

1) less ambitious as my older artwork, so that I can finish it faster

2) featuring new characters from cartoons and comics I've not done before (I've kind of burned out on Hartman cartoons)

3) hardcore in nature (because fuck deviantART, I'm going back to drawing cartoon porn instead of cheesecakes that still have to abide to increasingly more restrictive rules).

Also, if someone could point me to the direction of those high-definition screenshots of Maddie that I've seen posted on /co/, I'd be very happy to hear that. Okay, turns out that's a Twitter account called Reference Emporium. I'm gonna have to check that one out later. Not that I need more Maddie reference, really, since you could wake me up in the middle of a night and ask me to draw her out of memory, and I could. Not bragging, but having spent almost 15 years oggling at this perfect MILF, I know her looks inside out. Anyway, they probably have a lot more high-quality references of other things, I hope. I suppose that's where the Monroe's mom pics also came, although the link I got from the thread was for scans of all the Wray-era comics (which is great, too, since now I don't have to go dust off my own collection of '90s MADs, some of which are close to falling apart in my hands due to me reading through them hundreds of times).

TL;DR I'm still drawing but I don't have the time and privacy to fix/finish most of my drawings, but I'll try to slowly go over some old things and draw new things whenever I'm inspired, and then finish those projects on my own pace, which might take a looooong while; I'm also not taking any commissions or requests anymore until further notice

COMMISSION: A Cheeky Comparison /// Large Deceased Extant

Similarly to the previous update from almost a year ago, I'm merging a commission post and a regular art piece post due to this blog seeing so little activity these days.

 

 
This is my first commission out of three to someone who prefers to stay anonymous. The picture was done through a slow-burn throughout the year, finally seeing completion around mid-July, although it has taken me this long to get around publishing it due to various events in my life keeping me quite busy, the biggest ones being a total overhaul of my desktop system, as well as my laptop going through a tedious fresh reinstall and recovery of files from multiple back-ups, forced upon me by a seriously corrupted OS install caused by an earlier update the fucked over the file system. As you can imagine, 2021 is the WORST year to be doing any computer-related updates or purchases, and it's been kicking my ass in so many ways, but I think I'm close to finishing the task. Come October, I should have a ridiculously more powerful PC at my disposal, although my personal life is still a mostly hostile envinroment when it comes to working on new art, and it looks like it might be this way either for a very long time, or perhaps forever. Again, this does not mean a complete retirement, but I don't see myself being able to pump out more than a handful of pics every year and once I have my remaining three commissions out of the way... well, unless money becomes a serious issue, I don't think I'll take new ones anytime soon.

Anyway, I wasn't supposed to be giving you a big update on what's going on but I guess it can't be helped, since I don't really make new journal posts anymore and both deviantART and Blogger seem to be broken on my Firefox-forked browser. Now, about the commission... it's a pretty simple one, as you can see, just Ms. Keane and Debs Turnbull pushing their butts together. The shading was adjusted by my now-fully-retired-from-erotic-fan-art colleague, LLToon, who I still keep in touch almost on a daily basis. The background is... I actually don't recall where I got the idea to draw the clouds like that, but it can tell you that I hated how clouds looked like in the PPG movie and I couldn't find any good cloud reference images online from Robotboy, so I rejected the idea of using either show's source for them.

Also, you'll get your daily dose from the leotards, but don't thank me – thank Dr. Piccolo.

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I know I promised not to draw anything between the commissions that I still have to finish, but... I just couldn't help myself. The timing was also critical, as three important things happened at the same exact time:

1) a massive inspiration struck me
2) my PC building had reached a break due to technical issues combined with absolutely necessary parts having failed to arrive in time
3) I had some all-important "me-time" to spend

This all started over a week ago, when I was watching some of the more recent episodes from the fifth season of My Hero Academia with my afore-mentioned friend LLToon. Those of you who watch the show are very well aware that the tail-end of S5 is heavily focusing on the League of Villains, going through the origin stories of some (although not all) of the major players in it. As is a tradition between us, we do a voice chat over the show, comment and riff on it and also post out good and/or funny porn that find of the female characters from Paheal, Sad Panda etc. Well, as it had just happened, the episode we were watching focused on Himiko Toga, the blood-sucking, Bane-mask-wearing, knife-wielding psychopath schoolgirl, and one of the pics that LL happened to post in the chat was a fantastic picture by Bartolomeobari (image #3542314 on Paheal), where a Nomu is roughly fucking Toga, pushing her into the ground and – most importantly – spreading her straightened legs wiiiiide open. The picture, especially the roughness of it and Toga's legwork, reminded me instantly of my favourite Akko Kagari from Little Witch Academia erotic fan art by Materclaws (image #2158876 on Paheal).

I HAD to draw something similar. Trouble is, I can't really draw anime outside Crayon Shin-Chan and Vegeta from Dragonball Z, and to learn Horikoshi's style would obviously take freaking forever. This, then, forced me to think up an alternative solution: the main thing was that I wanted to do a pic of rough fucking, the girl's legs had to be held in place with force and straightened out for the desired visual kink and the character should be someone young, skinny and, I suppose, somewhat crazy – or at least someone you'd imagine being wild in bed.

Later that night, I was browsing Paheal for the art of BigDeadAlive (or BigDead93, as he's also known), who I like very much as an artist and who seems to share a lot my taste when it comes certain "petite" girls: he's drawn a lot of pictures of Nonon Yakuzure from Kill La Kill and Sucy Manbavaran from Little Witch Academia, and I've also seen both Akko and Toga featured, Lacey Shadows from The Modifyers and Star Butterfly from Star vs. The Forces of Evil. However, besides Nonon and Sucy, who BigDeadAlive seems to be very fond of, there's also another flat-chested, lean-yet-mean girl that's part of a property I've never acquainted myself with but which nonetheless features this character who I find delightful in erotic fan art.

No, I'm not talking about Etna from Disgaea. I'm talking about Jinx from Teen Titans (the original one, not Go!).

I have never watched Teen Titans, nor drawn any fan art of it. That might sound unbelievable, but I'm not shitting you. I was meaning to start watching the show back in... I think it was sometime in the late 2000s or so, but for some reason I never did. I was familiar with all the porn as early as when the show was actually brand new and those ZONE Flash animations of Raven and Jinx are still some of his most iconic work (though my personal favourites from him are The Modifuckers, Jenny being fucked by the rock monsters and the Kill La Kill "game" where Ryūko Matoi gets to enjoy some tentacles), so in a way I knew the show but, uh, not really. Thankfully, I had saved up some reference art from here and there, and the TT Wiki provided me with further screengrabs.

Since it was BigDeadAlive's art that gave me the final push towards fulfilling my inspiration, I figured I would dedicate this picture in his honor. Cheers!

Due to the nature of the pic being a tribute, this also "allowed" me to rest easy on not following the show's style to a tee. This is why you see a little bit more elaborate shading in the pic and Jinx wearing fetish clothing and nipple piercings instead of her usual goth-y stuff. ZONE's art served as the "official" look for the highlighted spots on Jinx and the guys' skin, as well as the shading and "look" of the cum and other various fluids show in the pic.

The initial bumps during the production were to slim down Jinx from the original Wacom sketch where she had a more MILF-y body (as I'm more used to drawing those) and fixing all the various perspective issues, as I had chosen a more "3-D" angle and, as a nod to both the original inspiration with Toga and Teen Titans' unabashed plagiarism of anime tropes to the point it probably got irritating for many viewers, I decided to 'tilt' the camera angle á la Battlefield Earth (pee-yew!), as a Dutch angle allows me to show most of Jinx's body without having to expand the borders into a giant square. Early on, I also decided that instead of getting double-penetrated, I wanted the other guy to give Jinx a facial instead...  but I also didn't want his ass and thighs to cover the goodies, so I borrowed yet another hentai trope, which is fading out a guy blocking the girl by turning most of his body transparent (this also allows me to avoid drawing most of him). Once again, I have to give partial credit to my friend LL, who noticed what were probably the worst perspective issues with the pic early on.

By far the biggest hassle, however, was creating the background. Hoo boy, I really did not enjoy that part of the process, moreso than usual! Teen Titans was one of those early shows that had digitally created backgrounds, from what I can tell, as there seem to be plenty of custom Adobe Photoshop brush work all over the walls, metal support beams, doors, pavement and so on. I could've tried to find out which particular brushes were used for the show but considering that it came out in the early-to-mid-2000s and was a professional production by Warner Brothers, I imagine the custom brushes possibly being either in-house creations or purchased from a third party, which either sells only to the industry and/or has long since stopped supporting said brushes. Hence, I just went to Google and did the ol' "custom grunge photoshop brushes" search. I think I spent about two hours trying to find and scrape together whatever I felt was fitting, and then four to five hours learning and creating the backgrounds. In the end, I still had to toy around with various clipping masks and blending options and... man, I don't think I ever want to draw a Teen Titans pic with a show-faithful background. Abstract shapes and transparent .PNGs from now on!

The pic you see here was mostly finished about five or six days ago, with the majority of the follow-up days spent on trying to find small details that I had missed, mostly untoggled clipping masks leading to colour bleeding, overlapping ink lines and whatnot. I have to give props to my friend despojo for having a keen eye on many mistakes that remained in the picture even after couple of days!

Originally, I had intended on releasing both the Keane/Turnbull pic and the Jinx pic later this year, possibly closer to Halloween, but once I saw another legendary artist – Hagfish – having a "Jinx moment" of releasing a series of Jinx-themed risqué fan art, I knew I had to join in on the fun. You can thank him for seeing these pics earlier than usual!

High-res variants of all of these pics are available HERE (deviantART), as well as HERE and HERE (Rule 34 Paheal). As always, remember to have your anti-virus on, adblocks and script blockers enabled etc. when clicking on Paheal links. The next update for the Art Archive, likely occur sometime early next year, will also feature all these images.