1. How did you come up with your DeviantArt username?

I decided on my DeviantArt name because I use Poser as my rendering software of choice and most of my art involves bound women.

2. Why did you join DeviantArt?

I joined DeviantArt at the suggestion of a friend who told me that my artwork would fit in nicely there. Since quite a bit of my art is considered "deviant" in nature, I felt it was the perfect place to deposit a gallery of it.

3. When did you create your first bondage or peril drawing and what was it?

My first bondage or peril drawing...that goes way way back. I guess I must have been about 13 years old and had saved up my meager allowance to afford a magazine that caught my eye at the local convenience store called Heavy Metal. Although it was supposed to be an "adult" magazine, the clerk thought it was just a comic book and sold it to me (he could have gotten in big trouble for that if he'd been caught). Inside the pages of that magazine, I saw an image of a bound naked woman for the first time. I broke out my art supplies and started teaching myself to draw the same picture. But I did change the figure in my version to Batgirl and she was tied to a bed with her legs spread and her wrists to the sides of the frame with elbows held behind her back which was arched in that position.

4. How and when did you first realize you liked bondage and damsel in distress peril? What other genres do you enjoy creating images for?

I first realized I liked bondage and damsel in distress peril while watching TV (specifically Perils of Penelope Pitstop and Batman). Other genres I enjoy creating images for fall into the category of sword fantasy such as one would expect to find Red Sonya depicted in.


Becca and the Villain (continued)

5. Describe your creative process. What are the "tools of your trade"? And how do you decide what you will draw?

My creative process is somewhat steered by the tools of my trade. Since I use Poser, I'm limited to what I can create within its scope. I have a huge collection of 3D stuff related to Poser so I'm not as limited as one might think but am somewhat more limited now than before. I used to be able to create my own models using 3D Studio Max but the student license expired so whatever models I have to fabricate have to be made from primitives I've saved or by using something in Poser called the "grouping tool" that lets me take items/characters and isolate material groups and save those an individual models. I have also developed a means of using another program called XNA Lara Posing Studio that has tons of free models/characters to download. I can export those as solid object files that can be imported into Poser. The tricky part is the textures because the export to OBJ function inside the program uses generic naming conventions for each material texture group such as material001, material002, etc., etc., instead of something sensible like left sleeve or eyeballs. So I have to trial and error for awhile to figure out what each material zone actually should be named before I can apply the textures. As far as deciding what to draw...that is still limited to what is in my range of models. I don't get to come up with much on my own these days as far as what to draw (if draw even applies here since I work in 3D) because most of my work this past couple of years has been commissioned by fans of my gallery so they're the ones who tell me what they'd like to see.

6. How did you develop your particular style of art here on DA? How (if at all) has it changed since you’ve been active on the site?

Necessity is still the mother of invention. My style has changed a bit partly because of better software and a better computer system. I used to create things on a windows XP based laptop using a 32bit version of the operating system which is limited to 3GB of memory. Because of that, many of the commissions I was tasked with wouldn't render because there just wasn't enough memory to handle all of the involved items. What I ended up doing was rendering parts of it in such a way that I could then post-work edit it together by copying and pasting a second character into the scene. That tedious and time consuming and now I don't have to do it that way any more.

7. Have you ever received any complaints that your artwork is offensive? If so, what in particular was the complaint about and how did you respond to it?

I have received one complaint. The character looked a little on the young side. It wasn't my intention of depicting under-aged nudes, so I responded by removing it from my gallery. The character came like it was and wasn't supposed to be under the legal age.

8. Why do you think people (male and female) like seeing girls imperiled in art?

I think people like to see girls imperiled in art because it activates adrenaline at some level in that the danger of not being able to escape in time or not being rescued creates a fantasy of panic and anxiety.

9. What bondage artists/cartoonists or bondage photographers do you admire, and have any of them influenced your bondage artwork?

Alazar and Bishop are artists I admire and Irving Claw is a photographer I admire. All of them have influenced my bondage artwork.

10. Is there any one piece of your work are you most proud of and why?

The one piece of my work that I am most proud of is called "Gator Bait" and it commemorates a milestone achievement on Deviant Art of having accumulated 50,000 page views. I'd gotten the idea from an old Batman episode and it ended up being very difficult to compose.


Gaitor Bait

11. What has been your most challenging work? Why was it so challenging?

I'm currently working on something that could very well be my most challenging work. It's so challenging because it involves the creation of a new model that has to be implemented in such a way where its size and position in the scene are critical. I can't really say much more about it because it's for a commissioned series and that would ruin the commissioner's surprise.

12. What has been your most popular work?

That question is difficult to answer when you have over 1000 deviations. It also depends on what you base popularity on (comments or favoriting). "Becca and the Villain continued" has the most comments but Catshatewater has been favorited the most and most viewed.

13. When you create a bondage drawing, what part of the drawing is most erotic to you?

Boobs, no doubt.

14. What is your policy on taking requests and/or commissions?

I don't have a policy that's set in stone. I don't have a set price I charge. Each image is different with its only unique set of complexities and difficulties. I never know how difficult something's going to be until I've exerted the work needed to bring it to fruition. Sometimes I don't even charge at all depending on circumstances. I try to be extremely reasonable and have been told that I should charge much more than I do.

Catshatewater

15. What has been the most bizarre request or commission that you have actually drawn? Have there been any commissions or requests that were so “out there” that you declined to accept the commission (and if so, provide details of what was requested)?

The most bizarre request or commissions that I have rendered are the ones involving blood. Blood and gore isn't my cup of tea, but I get asked for it quite a bit. I've declined two commissions that I can recall. One was for some boobs so oversized and inadequately proportioned that I found it distasteful and unattractive. I've also been asked for a beastiality image with penetration which I don't do.

16. You’ve been on DA for more than 5 years. What do you think are the best and worst features of the site?

Best feature I think is notifications of comments. Worst feature is allowing anyone to add your art to their "collections" without permission.

17. If you could make one change to DA, what would it be?

I'd like to get emails for when someone comments on a gallery image. I think that would be really nice.

18. I know you have done a lot of collaborations with QuinnTheAssistant. Have you collaborated with others? What do you look for when seeking to collaborate with others on DA?

Yes, I've collaborated with others. I've had people write stories based on my images. I've also had a few people add "comic style speech balloons and dialogue text" to some images that need it.

Quinn The Assistant Motivated


Perilous Tales Volume 2, Page 2 featuring QuinnTheAssistant 

19. Tell us your favorites: movie, TV show, book, music, food, type of bondage restraint, type of gag, and outfit to draw.

Movie: Shawshank Redemption
TV show: Game of Thrones
Book: The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Music: 70's era rock
Type of bondage restraint: straps
type of gag: tape
Outfit: corset, panties, garter, stockings, shin high boots

20. What do you enjoy doing when you take downtime from DeviantArt?

Watching television, eating, and sleeping (boring life, eh?)

21. What else do you want people on DA to know about you and your art?

I fix computers for a living. I know my art isn't looked upon by the general art community as meeting a community standard and a lot of people find it downright creepy. Although bondage is embedded into most of my art, I try not to render bondage just for the sake of bondage. To me, it's not just the visual aspect of seeing a female tied up. I think it's more interesting when there's some element of danger especially if it's being implemented by some sort of automated process the damsel is powerless to control the outcome of. I think that is what's missing in most of the bondage videos and images I've seen. It's actually quite rare for me to find something that I feel was "done right."  I think my favorite bondage video ever has to be The Perils of Batgirl by Jim Weathers. It's the classic buzzsaw peril conveyor theme. There's a few points about it I wish were better, but it's overall well done (I would have preferred she have boots on instead of stocking'd feet).