just got me wonder - where are you from :D

I was born in Billings, Montana and lived in or near there for 18 years before moving to Wyoming.

I've always like your French Tickler char. What's your opinion on the tickling kink in general?

I don't have any preference for or against it. As far as kinks go, it seems one of the more harmless varieties. It just worked really well with the character after I knew I had to have one called "French Tickler". If he's going to be called that, he might as well tickle people.

I've always been fond of your characters and been hopeful of possibly seeing a few specific scenarios. has the thought or idea of commissions, even in an extremely limited amount, ever crossed your mind?

I wouldn't rule them out for the future but I really haven't been a good place artistically for a while. I've been struggling with things that should be easy and struggling moreso with the things that aren't.

I get you. thanks for the info!

When you draw what kind of technique do you use? circle for head with lines through it, or another way?
Where did you learn your shading technique, your emotion expression drawing?

When you choose a subject to draw on, or have an idea for a pic, it is a 'muse' and impulse, a sugestion, or deciding to draw your version of a scene you saw via tv, a book etc?

You work at a furniture store, said you used to draw pictures of the furniture for advertising? Do you still do so?

I'm all over the place for technique but generally for characters, especially ones I know, I start with the eyes then work to the snout or muzzle, then ears and after that, I rough in the body outline with maybe a couple of reference marks for where the legs start and where the feet end up and go from there. I've only used the oval and lines method for people.

My shading technique was a self-acquired thing I picked up when I would copy black and white photographs from newspapers or magazines. I wanted to emulate the tones in the photos. The emotions and expressions came from studying animators and a couple of comic book artists, like Kevin Maguire, for whom expressions are really his forte. It really helps to think of the expression as sort of a movie then picking one "freeze frame" out of the "movie", usually the most expressive moment and drawing that one, perhaps slightly exaggerating the expression just a touch but not as much as someone like Chuck Jones might do.

Pictures can come from a variety of sources - idea, whim, notion, pure inspiration, a particular word or phrase, a song title or lyric, sometimes just pondering what a character might do in a given situation. Most of the best ones I don't actually ever think consciously about. They often just seem to happen.

I used to drafting by hand, then hand-coloring the drafting in whatever materials the designers would choose. Occasionally I would draw a particular piece of funiture and color it if that were necessary. Four years ago, the bosses wanted me to switch to digital so I had to learn to create the floorplans I used to hand-draft in software usually used for 3D modelling and color everything with as many photo textures as I can find. I don't do anything "by hand" these days and have put the drafting tables aside to use that part of the desk for other things - usually so the designer can spread their samples, paperwork and other crap around so they can take over my desk until they decide at some point later to gather it all up again.

Iv seen alot of art from you that would appeal to many different fetishs. Is there any specific kink art you prefer to create?

That's a bit like asking if I like Star Wars OR Star Trek. Or Superman OR Batman.

I like both of both and more than that. For the kinks, I don't know that I have a particular favorite of the ones I do. If I do, or I do more of one than the other, it's a mood thing very much at that moment. At this moment, I don't even have one I could name but that could be because it's early.

For me I always liked the artistic style who did Catwoman in the 90s Jim Balent. http://comicsalliance.com/tarot-wit.....lack-rose-eel/ and http://comicsalliance.com/tarot-63-.....ed-werewolves/ Think these might give you ideas?

Though I didn't collect much of Catwoman, I'm familiar with Mr. Balent's work. He was a good, solid artist who knew how to layout a comic page where it was easy to follow to story in a decade where other artists were going with flashy styles and difficult to understand page layouts. I tend to blame Frank Miller and The Dark Knight Returns for several of those.

Oh, I have ideas. Several old ones I've never even managed to upload here if I could get back to them and still get a few new ones. The problem is having the time and energy - when I have one, I never seem to have the other.