Tickling Artists #92: Interview with Art-2u

1) Do you want to tell us something about yourself and your art?

Of course, I am Art-2u, I’m a comic book artist / script writer and caricaturist with quite a few years in the trade working during the end of the last century and beginning of this one in some newspapers and magazines in my country. And for about 7 years now I have approached the subject of fetishes such as: tickling, soles and feet fetish, damsels in distress, super curvy girls, giantess fetish and light bondage. Which has intrigued me since then.

2) What techniques do you use to draw? Do you have a favorite artist that inspires you?

At the beginning I used to draw a lot on those watercolors cardboards with a technical pencil for the sketch. This first stage takes me a lot of time (and erases) after finishing that part I ink them with numbered fountain pens. On the other hand, the dialogues printed separately are pasted on the finished panels. But for ten years now, I only draw on a computer because it is more practical for me, using my Wacom Intuos tablet and Clip Studio software.

My favorite artists are: George Pérez, Haruhiko Mikimoto, Bruce Timm, Vivienne Medrano, Lauren Faust and in the fetish line: Franco Saudelli, Bill Ward and Dan DeCarlo.

3) How much was the passion for drawing born in you? And the one for the tickle?

I have been developing my passion in drawing since I was a teenager, and tickling for the last 7 years. when I did my first tickling drawings commissions.

4) What are the tickling scenarios that you prefer to draw?

Mostly in door sceneries you know like offices, storages or bedrooms.

5) What are the aspects of tickling that you intend to represent with your art? Example: the laughing, the wriggling, the relationship between tickler and ticklee?

The female laughter, definitely. And secondly, the pose of both. I like the combination of damsels in distress theme and foot tickling situations.

6) Online there are countless photos and videos of tickling sessions. In your opinion, what do illustrations offer more than images of real life?

The online illustrations offer a more imaginative and playful tickling situation in contrast to just capturing photo images of tickling between two real people.

7) In your opinion, what makes tickling so interesting for fans of this phenomenon?

I think it’s because curiosity and novelty about this fetish that are so little publicized in the mainstream, although I see that this situation is changing, little by little.

8) What are your works of which you are most proud?

The Don Footellys comic covers are my favorite ones so far.

9) Do you have any particular artistic goals for the future?

My main goal will be publishing my original comics issues next year.

10) Do you think AIs will end up enriching or impoverishing the art of tickling representations?

I think not, rather than consider them, as new graphic tools the same as the 3d render images that ruled the art media at the beginning of this century.

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