Something I've been curious about for a while (mildly TMI)
9 years ago
How do people not get aroused when drawing porn? D:
Like do people just get used to it or desensitized to it? Cause I'm not and that's frustrating.
It it just something that lessens with time? Or are there like tips you could give for sorta lessening arousal while drawing this stuff?
Or is it just normal to get aroused fairly easily like that?
Like do people just get used to it or desensitized to it? Cause I'm not and that's frustrating.
It it just something that lessens with time? Or are there like tips you could give for sorta lessening arousal while drawing this stuff?
Or is it just normal to get aroused fairly easily like that?
I guess what I mean is, how do people...I dunno..."focus" when drawing porn. I dunno if I'm wording it right. Like I'm just not good at fully focusing on the drawing if I'm aroused.
First tying up wouldn't be required.
Second, if I couldn't concentrate before I certainly would be able to concentrate then. XD
Arousal may lessen with time because eventually the topics you draw becomes trivial enough for you, just like frequent nudists no longer consciously noticing the nudity of themselves and other nudists around them.
You may also consider to act on your arousal and then use the precious cooldown time after getting yourself off to get the arousing aspects of your work finished, so you can focus later on those important aspects you don't find as arousing. Just don't despise or belittle yourself over feeling aroused during your work process because that won't help with making it a trivial thing for yourself and is utterly unnecessary.
Of course for all of this I assume, that one is drawing for themselves, but lastly there is also the situation of you drawing pornography of things you have no qualms with drawing but which don't do anything for you, other than paying your bills or getting you appreciation and praise from others. I'm not certain, if one's arousal is a problem in these instances.
Sometimes when I'm watching public streams of artists abruptly switching from general to mature audiences, I also notice a certain detachment of the artist from the topic in order to remove the awkward seriousness of the matter and trivialising things with the undeniable fact that all genitalia are simply hilarious in their designs.
I don't despise myself (for this anyways) or anything...I just find it to be a little annoying when I'm trying to work on stuff. I usually resort to acting on it just so I can focus for a little bit, but my "cool down" time ends up being pretty short...
Like when it comes to what sort of porn I will draw, it usually ends up being stuff that generally interests me or else I just have no want to even draw it (usually 'cause I just find the subject matter uncomfortable or something). So even if it is a commission of sorts, there's a good chance I'll get aroused from it.
I guess I hadn't really picked up on that in streams. Mostly due to never having seen a stream where a person just switches from doing clean work to porn. To me, people just seem to talk about whatever while the artist just keeps working (possibly I'm missing out on a lot since I never have the volume of a stream on).
Usually, if I'm aroused? It's when I'm thinking up the idea before I go to draw it.
If I ever get annoyed by the flaws I see in what I'm drawing, I just keep scrapping the sketch until I eventually come up with something I like. Or I walk away from it and work on something else. Minor "flaws" don't bother me so much anymore. Like flaws have to be really glaring to bother me that badly (like really screwed up anatomy...or hands...hands always bother me).
I avoid drawing anything I'm not interested in just on the basis of if it makes me uncomfortable I don't want to draw it or I'll get through this art quicker if it's something I like.