The last time we spoke it was Inktober Day 23 Muddy. I went on to explain how muddy things can get in pursuit of creative relevancy.
This discussion has become a motif as it where, among the few I have come to know and myself personally. There are many that are not willing to settle for the vain accolades of unimaginative donors, who believe because they are willing to pay for an idea, that they own the idea.
Idea’s are useless without the proper Dream Weaver to bring to life what one imagines.
Recently I was asked, “Why all the NSFW and Futa art, lately?”
Well, If I have not answered in previous journals I will do so now. I wanted to incorporate the genre in this year’s #Inktober, partially because no one else has done it, and secondly because I appreciate those that find pleasure in such art. I was asked to draw Yana’s Original character and though I am not fond of drawing other’s work, #Fanart has its place. For those that have something against it, there is always someone contending against something they themselves can not do, I suggest you try it, publicly, opposed to hiding your fetish in the closet and choosing to judge those that are open about what makes them happy. It will be a horrible shame, when one day someone comes and finds that after all your caterwauling about what you don’t like, and how much disdain you carry for the mode of thought, that secretly, the entire time, you like or have fantasied about the pleasure’s derived from anal sex.
There are many that speak violently against sex in general. For those of you that do try listening to Alicia Keys - Holy War and carry that same idea around.
“Neko Love,” was simply a colored rendition to an idea that I was asked to create. I did not judge the man that asked me for the image. I do not feel he is less, than a man because of his tastes. Instead I find him bold and appreciated because he looked at my talent and was assured after a few panels that I could bring his Dream to life. I am proud of him, at least he had the willingness to dream.
“Chop,” was developed on Inktober Day 24 and it received 3.66 stars out of 5. For whatever reason I missed 4/5-star rating and I am not bothered. It was a piece devised to show what kind of life I live. One deep in the dark woods and still relying on wood to keep me warm. I draw to pass my time and I write books to stave away the freeze that comes upon a person’s imagination due to a lack of exposure to anything besides what they are used to.
“Prickly,” received nearly 3/5 stars and it is simply illustrating what I see every morning in my front yard as I collect wood. These images that mean only more to me because I am the creator have received affection from passing fans, simply because they are. I was most surprised to find that after producing Inktober Day 25, I can use the very image for Christmas. Most interesting indeed.
But when I ask you to “Stretch,” your imagination just a little, to reach for the goal of your heart and find pleasure in the comforts that are willing to surround you, I receive hate mail?
Inktober Day 26 was not about hate at all, yet that is what came out of the mind of a viewer and into my personal inbox. Hatred for the very act that causes them to have the ability to waste vapor and to suggest they hate something.
That image received 167 views 7 votes and would have received more stars and appreciation if those that where looking at the image where not so stuck on how the world would see them if they were found with a collection under their beds. I am made to wonder if they carry that same mindset about who it is they desire to “stretch,” their lives for?
I imagine they would not stretch their lives for anyone. Most of what they care about is superficial and doomed to fade in time anyone. To dust we ar’t and to dust we will return.
Unfortunately, I do not plan to be hindered in any fashion, be it by the grave, or the will of the NSFW haters, Erotica disdainers, Liberation-sequesters, who would deny a person a place in the Hall of Fame of Art, because the content is controversial.
It is just as bad being denied publication because someone feels, Fantasy and Comics are an “inferior storytelling medium.”
All of which makes me want to bring the #Thunder