ART: Another Stripper

...because why not?

My love for Sergio Aragonés' works is well-known by this point, so drawing hot girls in his style is something I like to do every once in a while. The inspiration for this particular one came from the performances of a Spanish professional dancer and a stripper, Susana Reche, who always goes bottomless at the end of her shows, usually undoing a string thong bikini bottom.

As usual, higher-resolution pics can be found on my deviantART page as well as Rule 34 Paheal (here, here and here).

ART: New Year Stripper

Just a quick and dirty New Year's pic featuring an off-duty stripper styled after the great Sergio Aragonés, based on a comic article of his titled 'A MAD Look at Parades' (which was obviously published on MAD Magazine, sometime in the late '90s, I believe). I know the stripper in the said article – or specifically in one of the several comic strips included in it – does not wear a garter belt and fishnets, but I figured I'd add those in just because they look good on her.

The text in the speech bubble is trying to emulate the printing by hand featured in Aragonés' Groo the Wanderer comics.

Ultra high-res version available on deviantART and a smaller one (but still larger than this) can be found on Paheal.

Have a good one!

ART: Topless Secret /// EDIT: Roger Bacon's Agent Xero Pin-Up

I know I mentioned the next pic would be one of the upcoming commission works, but I managed to whip up this little number on the side. Not to worry, though, as that commission is about 90% completed and should be done in the next week or so.

As some of you may recall, many years ago I commissioned JaviDLuffy to draw a picture of the Gray Lady from the MAD Magazine classic, Spy vs. Spy. This is a character I've lusted after for quite some time but I never quite managed to draw her properly myself. Thanks to my recent acquirement of a new Samsung tablet that's powerful enough to do some sketching with, I've been able to work on my art a lot more lately and as such, I've decided to challenge myself almost every evening to draw sketches of characters I've either never drawn before or I've had trouble getting right – the Gray Spy falls into the latter category.

What you are seeing here is the first time I've been happy enough with a sketch that I've decided to actually finish it! Therefore, you may expect to see her pop up in later artwork in the future.

Higher quality version available on deviantART.

Way, way back in 2019 (or was it early 2020?), I asked Roger Bacon permission to ink and colorize a very nice sketch of Agent Xero that he had made that I had seen posted on 4chan's /co/. He said yes, and it took me several years to finally get to it. There isn't really not much else to say about it, except that I did slightly enlarge her head and therefore also had to tweak the hair a little bit. Everything else, though, has been preserved. The completion year for the original sketch is purely a guess, as the picture had no signature and I had to look up details from the file regarding the date I had saved it. I'm more than happy to update a proper date to the pic later, if I ever learn it.

The background was a nightmare to do.

Bacon's (and ZONE's) take on Xero/Lacey Shadows will be a hard act to follow but I do hope to eventually pay my own respects to this character in the future.

Higher quality version available on deviantART.

ORDERED ART: For Your Eyes Only

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.

LITE ART: New Year's Jubilee

UPDATE (about 6 hours later): well, I did manage to fuck it up. I had to redraw the right hand of the girl on the left side because I had accidentally drawn her thumb on the wrong side. Thanks for noticing it, Z. This means that I now had to use Photoshop to replace the erroneus hand with a proper one. Darn it!


Yes, it's a new 'lite art' piece. I haven't done these for almost three years. It's also traditionally inked as opposed to my usual artwork and the only tweaking I've done in Photoshop consists of arranging the girls and the text and cleaning up some pencil lines. This is, in a way, a sequel to this old X-Mas pic from 2008 and once again features sexy girls drawn in Aragonés style.

2012 was an interesting year. Throughout the year, I had been pushing myself to learn better shading and lighting effects and learning new, more effective ways of colouring a picture to speed up art creation process. I had two successful commission runs and tried out characters and cartoon series I hadn't done before. I had the pleasure of discovering Gravity Falls and was disappointed by SheZow (concept was awesome, execution was bad, most likely ruined by political correctness). I was scared shitless when Disney purchased Star Wars but felt some relief when J. J. Abrams announced he wasn't going to be directing. I watched the Roland Emmerich movie 2012 on December 21st, 2012, celebrating doomsday I knew wouldn't be coming anyway.

Let's see what 2013 has to offer. I know I'll be working with a high-end PC soon and I might even get myself a graphics tablet of some sort, so that should at least speed things up :)

Happy New Year 2013, everyone!

LITE ART: Stripperific Holidays

Sergio Aragonés draws some very fine-looking women. For the past 11 years I've been trying to learn his style of drawing sexy girls and I can tell you, it's a pain in the ass!

Naturally, I've been tinkering with #17 for the past few nights but during the occasional breaks I've been working on an Aragonés-style pic I felt that was actually going somewhere. I finished it ten minutes ago and I feel that it came out nicely.

With this pic I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

(BTW I won't be taking any long breaks from drawing - on the contrary!)