Comments on: Ask An Artist – Adult Oriented Art

By: kitsune

kitsune — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:54:25 +0000

Damien – I do believe Garth of Finder’s Keepers just said he does nude commissions?

By: rsm

rsm — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:37:31 +0000

Go read Ghost in the Shell or older teen oriented Japanese manga and there is plenty of nudity and sex to go around. I don’t really see a problem either way, personal preferences are what rule the day. Some stories do better with it, and some do worse. It’s a matter of storytelling and art skills as well as genre etc.

Damien: Check out Hentai Foundry, Darknest or wwoec, there are lots of artists who don’t mind doing nudes there. And several who do exceptional superhero stuff.

By: Some Quick Awesome Source « Finder’s Keepers Insights

Some Quick Awesome Source « Finder’s Keepers Insights — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:01:35 +0000

[...] I highly recommend checking it out if you’re an artist, illustrator, or just happen to like that kind of thing. He’s got a lot of good tutorials, insights, and interviews with other professionals. And no, I’m not just telling you to check it out because he’s asked me for a few insights. [...]

By: Damien

Damien — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:34:53 +0000

I think any intelligent person can tell the difference between the various sub-genres of nudity that people have imposed. “Erotic”, “Adult”, “Pornographic”, I mean at some point the names and labels all become a moot point. I personally try to stay away from labeling art in any way and take everything I see on it’s own merits. Maybe this is because I’m a writer and not an artist.

I also think it has a lot to do with intent. You would never approach someone like Milo Manara and ask him why he “does porn”, would you? No, because the art and stands on it’s own merits. Yes, it’s intended to be stimulating, even titillating, but to call it “adult” or “porn” work cheapens it. Likewise with commissioned work, I would imagine.

Having said that, if anyone knows someone who will take a commission on a Zatanna nude, message me.

By: SomeUnregPunk

SomeUnregPunk — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:42:55 +0000

I took one art class in college… we had to draw things ..no people just things. I asked the teacher what she taught about the difference between the artist who draws nudity/porn vs the nudity/art and she believed it was all about the money vs age. At first the younger you are, the more porn you may generate and then the older you get the porn your may generate may only be made if there is a substantial sum of money there to tempt the artist.
Looking back at that conversation I think she skated the question.

By: torsoboy

torsoboy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:21:26 +0000

I think the serious artist is very aware of the criticism he or she can take by doing an adult piece. There is a line drawn between “artistic nude” and “porn,” and it seems that by doing anything adult oriented, you are choosing to approach that line (with all seriousness of course). When the artist ventures into the adult, some viewers always come out and blast the artist for “drawing porn,” even if that isn’t the case. The nude, it seems, tends to be more in line with traditional fine arts type of artwork – Traditional illustrations (renderings), paintings, etc. – which seems to have a certain set of subject matter associated with it that differs from the subject matter of a lot of current illustrators and comic artists. The nude just doesn’t fit in.

I have found a few nudes (not nude studies) in comic artists’ portfolios, but the fact of the nudity often times seems to be misplaced or misused. That is, some of the pieces I’ve seen portray the nude for the sake of nudity and for no other reason, which draws my attention to the fact of the nudity. And sometimes the fact of the nudity leads the artist to portray the character in overly sexualized poses. Such poses can be achieved by clothed characters, but the “sexualization” couldn’t be hit home without the nudity there. At that point, the piece becomes rather immature, and that may be a reason why some people stay away from the nude pieces.

That isn’t to say a comic artist can’t do a nude piece and have it be visually interesting and thought provoking without being overly sexualized.