Tickling Artist #34: Interview with ImTheGuy97 

1) Do you want to tell us something about yourself and your art?

I’ve been a foot and tickle artist for 10 years, I love watching movies and reading history books (especially about evil people, I have the complete collection of evil faces) and I love playing Dead by Daylight and Jurassic World Evolution 2.

2) What techniques do you use to draw? Do you have a favorite artist that inspires you?

When I started I was a traditional artist, I used pen to outline and wood colors, nowadays I’m a 100% digital artist, it’s much more comfortable for me because you can fix mistakes easier and it’s very comfortable to use, I use Photoshop all the time. As for artists I’m a big fan of Kusujinn for his art style, Pirate No 3 for his expressions, I think he is the best, or at least one of the best, when it comes to expressions, and Briel 7 I love his anatomical style, I take a lot of inspiration from him and I use some references from him when I have doubts with anatomy.

3) How much was the passion for drawing born in you? And the one for the tickle?

I have always drawn, since I was a child I liked to draw, I used to draw animals and dinosaurs a lot and also horror and gore drawings (nowadays I still do these drawings) because I like this artistic genre a lot, I started to draw tickles when I was in elementary school; At first I did it just for fun, I didn’t see it as something erotic but rather as a game, something fun, when I met DA there was an artist called Master417 who helped me a lot to learn to navigate the platform and there I realized that the art of feet and tickling for me was more than just a hobby, I discovered that it was a taste; since then I have drawn fetish art.

4) What are the tickling scenarios that you prefer to draw?

I like very much the themes of Hospitals, Asylums and cursed or haunted Convents, or also horror characters, and I combine those elements with the feet and the tickles; it is very interesting to see how imagination can make you create scenarios of this type.

5) What are the aspects of tickling that you intend to represent with your art? Example: the laughing, the wriggling, the relationship between tickler and ticklee?

The most important thing in these drawings are the expressions because it is what people use to identify how X character reacts to different situations. I really like expressions and human anatomy. I try to be as expressive as possible with my characters both in facial emotions and body movements.

6) Online there are countless photos and videos of tickling sessions. In your opinion, what do illustrations offer more than images of real scenes?

Illustrations allow people to explore their fantasies in a better way; the biggest problems with photos and videos are the bad performances of the actresses and that leads to the story or the role of the characters being lost because it is not very believable, and also the limitations in terms of instruments and tickling methods. The illustrations and drawings give you better freedom to make the roles and fantasies come true, besides being able to create characters (OC) exclusively for tickling or putting your favorite characters in this kind of situation.

7) In your opinion, what makes tickling so interesting for fans of this phenomenon?

From experience I can tell you that tickling is very erotic and exciting, as a LER being dominant and having control of your partner is a very pleasant sensation; many people say they hate tickling, but it is not the same a person who tickles you just because he/she likes it than a person who tickles you because he/she likes it; the sensation is very different. For LERs (like me) we like very much to have our partner dominated and to take her to the limit, for LEEs the fact of not having control of the situation gives them a feeling of relaxation and de-stress.

8) What are your works of which you are most proud?

I’m very fond of my KNISMESIS comic, because it’s the first time I feel very comfortable doing a tickle story type project, and my favorite drawings are Albedo and Makima or Dead by Daylight characters.

9) Do you have any particular artistic goals for the future?

To continue with the KNISMESIS story, to create iconic characters and a universe that people like; maybe some collaboration with some artists within the KNISMESIS world, I would like that very much.

10) Do you think AIs will end up enriching or impoverishing the art of tickling representations?

The big problem I see with AI’s is that they are not drawings with soul, they are all the same and have many problems of expression, it is very easily noticed when a person uses artificial intelligences to make illustrations and I don’t like that very much; there is a lot of controversy about that and I am not sure what will happen with artists in general, we will have to adapt to the changes that are coming and see how we can compete with this new trend because there are already many accounts that try to monetize using these programs; for the moment we should not worry because AIs have many errors, we must wait to see how they evolve and how governments regulate these programs to know how we will act.

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