Doing some Spring cleaning and ran across a bunch of old 90s art. Most interesting was a batch of Blacksheep work. Well, copies of the work, anyway. I'm sure the originals are buried in a deeper level or in another castle.
Blacksheep was a sex comic I created between 1995 and 1997. Let's just call it 1996. I was 25 and feeling my loin stirring, as nobody says. I was heavily influenced by erotic comics such as Ironwood and Birdland. I wanted to draw that shit too. So I did.
My thing was drawing fat girls. Plump ladies, etc. It's a little embarrassing to say that stuff out loud (and here I am posting it online). I don't like to fetishize people based on their immutable traits. I don't fetishize fat girls. But I enjoy the way they look and feel. I think people of any size or shape have beauty, but I'm particularly drawn to the fullness of the human figure.
Anyway, that's a whole other topic, isn't it?
Blacksheep ran for 2 issues. Honestly, I thought it was just 1 issue. I forgot I did 2 of them. I'm not going to share the sex scenes here as this is just an R-rated nudie art blog, not a porn blog. I don't really want to do sex comics anymore. I haven't done one in a long time. Nothing against them, I enjoy a good sex romp (check out my post about Muffin Top). I just prefer to live in that R-rated zone where naked tits are fine but dicks going in and out of vaginas is softly avoided.
Here's some Blacksheep work that I feel comfortable sharing. It's old art, obviously, but a lot of it stands up and I am proud of it. Hell, I might even say I've fallen off in some areas. I don't know. Back then I was working almost entirely with pens such as Pigma Microns, worrying over those lines. I didn't lean into the brush pen until a bit later.
I don't want to go back to just using pens. I strongly prefer brushes. They feel sexy in my hand, honestly. The fat to thin, the soft feedback, the wetness. I love 'em.
But back then the pen ruled my hand.
One other observation I made while looking through this stuff is that I was extremely worried about being censored or getting into trouble. I have SO MANY warnings in these books about it being for adults only and shit. But then I realized cartoonist Mike Diana was convicted in 1994 for creating offensive comics. He was sent to jail for a few days, fined, and had to jump through a bunch of hoops such as counseling, courses on journalism ethics, had to keep away from kids, and wasn't allowed to draw. Part of his sentence was that the law could just enter any time and seize any art he made. FUCKING BULLSHIT.
But it happened. And it can happen again, especially in the current USA landscape. The fascists are in power and many of them are prudish religious assholes looking for any excuse to bring down the hammer of state authority.
I fucking hate authoritarians.
Here's some pinup art to cleans the thought.
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| I must have looked at a photo or something. |
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| This one is lovely, right? |
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| I drew this comic in pencil. It gets dirty pretty fast. |
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| I think this one is my fave. |
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| Digitally erased the paste up lines on this. |
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| Completely forgot this one. |
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| One of my favorites. |
