A few weeks ago I sent Achielles a description of cartoon that I found incredibly erotic as a child. It was in a martial art magazine. The intention of the original artist was not to make an erotic tickling drawing but it is my earliest memory of tickling.
Achilles reproduced the drawing in a way that exceeds any reasonable expectation. Every detail was included, every body part drawn to scale.
The email I sent describing the scene is below. The drawing is in the members section of this weeks update at http://www.achillesheelart.com.
My only purpose in posting these comments here was to alert the community that both Achielles and his website partner Sloth are incredibly talented artists. If you have not checked out their website, I would encourage you to do so.
Achielles, thank you for restoring a long lost child hood memory.
My original email to Achilles follows:
Dear Achilles,
I am grateful that you are considering drawing THE PIN. I’d like to describe in detail what I remember from my childhood.
I remember the tickle victim as being a tall, very handsome dark haired man. His face was sculpted and very masculine. The victim was also very muscular.
Both victim and tickler were wearing traditional white karate outfits.
The victim was laying face down on the mat or floor. At periodic spaces there were nails or pins driven through his karate outfit into the floor. So the viewer saw the tops of these nails just like you see the tops of the stakes in “terror of the little Indians”. The viewer was left with the understanding that his outfit had been pinned to the floor and the big man was unable to escape his smaller tormentor.
The drawing was also drawn in such a manner that the viewer got the impression that the little tormentor had been tickling the bigger man for some time. The reason I say this is that the victim’s face had a tear running down it, his eyes were clenched tightly and his mouth was wide with forced laughter. I also think the artist drew some squiggles ( sorry best I can do ) or something around his head that gave the impression that the head had been moving up and down in struggle.
The arms of the karate outfit only covered the victim’s upper arms and about half of his forearm. The karate outfit was pinned to the floor at what would be the sleeve cuff. (where the victim’s hands and forearms protruded from the arms of the karate outfit.) One of the ways the viewer knew the victim was very muscular is that the exposed part of the forearm was muscular. The victim’s big hands were both clutched into fists. The fist nearest the viewer was even with the floor and the fist furthest from the viewer was raised and headed down to the floor. The understanding that I got as a viewer was the immobilized big man was pounding his fists into the floor while the smaller man was vigorously tickling his bare foot.
The only thing I remember about the upper torso and the buttock area of the drawing was that there were those nails holding the karate outfit in place and imprisoning its wearer.
I do remember the victim as having powerfully built legs. The karate outfit ended about midway down his calves. The parts of his calves that showed were muscular (just like his forearms.) The leg furthest from the viewer was extended straight out. There were pins along that leg of the karate outfit so you knew that leg was immobilized. The bare foot that was not being tickled was laying flat on the floor. The victim had big bare feet as you would expect from man of his physique.
A shorter skinnier tormentor sat on the victim’s thigh that was closest to the viewer. He also wore a karate outfit and sat facing the bare feet of the much bigger man. The pins on the victim’s leg nearest the viewer (holding the victim to the floor) ended at the thigh of the victim’s karate outfit.
The victim’s leg was bent back toward his tormentor’s face in a kind of hogtie position. The material on this leg of the karate gi had folded back toward the floor so you saw even more of the victim’s muscular calf. The tormentor’s gaze was transfixed on the bottom of the bigger man’s bare foot.
The tormentor was a much smaller man. Unlike the sculpted face of the victim, his face was rounder and he had reddish blonde hair. I can best describe the face as being kind of cherub like or impish. But he had kind of a cruel smile on his face so the viewer got the impression that he was clearly enjoying making the bigger man scream with laughter. In the original drawing I think they gave the smaller man pointed ears so you got a kind of elf like or imp like impression. I think that added to the impression that the smaller man was clearly enjoying being the source of the bigger man’s misery.
The tormentor was holding the thick ankle of his helpless victim with one arm. When the tormentor’s forearms extended beyond the edge of his outfit they were hairless and kind of skinny. The tormentor’s ankles were kind of bony and his feet were much smaller than the big feet of his victim. The impression is that tormentor is kind of skinny. But the bony arm of the skinny guy had a very tight grip on the bigger man’s ankle. In his other hand he held a large feather. I remember that the feather tip kind of curled toward the ceiling.
In the drawing, I think the artist left the impression that the smaller man had been running the feather from his victim’s toes to heel and then back from heel to toe. In the moment captured by the picture the smaller man was just starting his downward stroke with the feather. I can’t remember if it was the feather just started tickling the bigger man’s beefy toes or was stroking a pathway midway down bigger man’s arch.
End email.
Achielles did an outstanding job reproducing this image!
Achilles reproduced the drawing in a way that exceeds any reasonable expectation. Every detail was included, every body part drawn to scale.
The email I sent describing the scene is below. The drawing is in the members section of this weeks update at http://www.achillesheelart.com.
My only purpose in posting these comments here was to alert the community that both Achielles and his website partner Sloth are incredibly talented artists. If you have not checked out their website, I would encourage you to do so.
Achielles, thank you for restoring a long lost child hood memory.
My original email to Achilles follows:
Dear Achilles,
I am grateful that you are considering drawing THE PIN. I’d like to describe in detail what I remember from my childhood.
I remember the tickle victim as being a tall, very handsome dark haired man. His face was sculpted and very masculine. The victim was also very muscular.
Both victim and tickler were wearing traditional white karate outfits.
The victim was laying face down on the mat or floor. At periodic spaces there were nails or pins driven through his karate outfit into the floor. So the viewer saw the tops of these nails just like you see the tops of the stakes in “terror of the little Indians”. The viewer was left with the understanding that his outfit had been pinned to the floor and the big man was unable to escape his smaller tormentor.
The drawing was also drawn in such a manner that the viewer got the impression that the little tormentor had been tickling the bigger man for some time. The reason I say this is that the victim’s face had a tear running down it, his eyes were clenched tightly and his mouth was wide with forced laughter. I also think the artist drew some squiggles ( sorry best I can do ) or something around his head that gave the impression that the head had been moving up and down in struggle.
The arms of the karate outfit only covered the victim’s upper arms and about half of his forearm. The karate outfit was pinned to the floor at what would be the sleeve cuff. (where the victim’s hands and forearms protruded from the arms of the karate outfit.) One of the ways the viewer knew the victim was very muscular is that the exposed part of the forearm was muscular. The victim’s big hands were both clutched into fists. The fist nearest the viewer was even with the floor and the fist furthest from the viewer was raised and headed down to the floor. The understanding that I got as a viewer was the immobilized big man was pounding his fists into the floor while the smaller man was vigorously tickling his bare foot.
The only thing I remember about the upper torso and the buttock area of the drawing was that there were those nails holding the karate outfit in place and imprisoning its wearer.
I do remember the victim as having powerfully built legs. The karate outfit ended about midway down his calves. The parts of his calves that showed were muscular (just like his forearms.) The leg furthest from the viewer was extended straight out. There were pins along that leg of the karate outfit so you knew that leg was immobilized. The bare foot that was not being tickled was laying flat on the floor. The victim had big bare feet as you would expect from man of his physique.
A shorter skinnier tormentor sat on the victim’s thigh that was closest to the viewer. He also wore a karate outfit and sat facing the bare feet of the much bigger man. The pins on the victim’s leg nearest the viewer (holding the victim to the floor) ended at the thigh of the victim’s karate outfit.
The victim’s leg was bent back toward his tormentor’s face in a kind of hogtie position. The material on this leg of the karate gi had folded back toward the floor so you saw even more of the victim’s muscular calf. The tormentor’s gaze was transfixed on the bottom of the bigger man’s bare foot.
The tormentor was a much smaller man. Unlike the sculpted face of the victim, his face was rounder and he had reddish blonde hair. I can best describe the face as being kind of cherub like or impish. But he had kind of a cruel smile on his face so the viewer got the impression that he was clearly enjoying making the bigger man scream with laughter. In the original drawing I think they gave the smaller man pointed ears so you got a kind of elf like or imp like impression. I think that added to the impression that the smaller man was clearly enjoying being the source of the bigger man’s misery.
The tormentor was holding the thick ankle of his helpless victim with one arm. When the tormentor’s forearms extended beyond the edge of his outfit they were hairless and kind of skinny. The tormentor’s ankles were kind of bony and his feet were much smaller than the big feet of his victim. The impression is that tormentor is kind of skinny. But the bony arm of the skinny guy had a very tight grip on the bigger man’s ankle. In his other hand he held a large feather. I remember that the feather tip kind of curled toward the ceiling.
In the drawing, I think the artist left the impression that the smaller man had been running the feather from his victim’s toes to heel and then back from heel to toe. In the moment captured by the picture the smaller man was just starting his downward stroke with the feather. I can’t remember if it was the feather just started tickling the bigger man’s beefy toes or was stroking a pathway midway down bigger man’s arch.
End email.
Achielles did an outstanding job reproducing this image!
