Tickle Artists #103: Interview with TacitoBoy

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

 I am TacitoBoy from the US. I’ve been making 3D renders for a few years with most involving tickling. I mainly do it just for fun and to fulfill my fetish desires, but I occasionally do tickle suggestions made by others.

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

I mainly use a program called Koikatsu to make my pics/comics and use Clip Studio paint to edit and put them all together. I usually go for reference pics to help get an idea of how I want it to look and would sometimes manipulate the body proportions of a model to help give a more dynamic look to the pic that most 2D artworks tend to have.

While I’d say that a lot of artists from the tickle community inspire me, I will give a shout out to some artists like Codricor1 and Master417 who’ve I’ve followed for years and greatly appreciate the stuff they do.

Besides that, most of my inspiration comes from comments from those who’ve seen my work. I even have an online friend who I frequently show my works in progress to and their replies always motivate me to do more.

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

I first started doing 3D stuff around 2015 with Source Filmmaker, mainly for comedic animations. I always liked watching machinimas, so I became used to using 3D softwares for creating scenes.

For wanting to make tickle pics specifically, my passion first started around six years ago when I saw an artwork by an artist named Dazidentevil of an Android 18 tickle pack. One main aspect from the pack that I enjoyed deeply was how it started with Android 18 fully clothed with her shoes still on and as the pack progressed, it showed her socked feet, then her bare feet, then it had some tickling before she got stripped further for a more intense session. I loved it so much that I wanted to see more, which led to me to try and create my own stuff.

At first, it was mainly just edits of pictures that I kept for myself, but it snowballed until I started using my previous skills in 3D softwares to start making my own stuff but still using softwares like Clip Studio paint to fix my renders or to put it all together into one. And by 2023, I was comfortable enough to start showing my renders for others to enjoy.

Tickling has been a part of me since I can remember. The many times I’ve seen tickling from cartoons led to me wanting to see more and eventually follow tickle fetish content around my teen years.

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

I tend to prefer doing scenarios where one girl gets tickled by multiple ticklers, usually consisting of smaller entities like floating hands or creatures, who are attracted to her and love seeing her in a ticklish fit.

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 aspect that I love to represent in my tickle works is the progression of the tickling.

With most tickle art, it’s normally a single image that shows what’s happening midway through a tickle scenario, having the lee look like they’ve been tickled for a good while prior to what’s being shown. For me, I love to show the beginnings of that. I want to show the lee first getting restraint, some light tickling while fully clothed to show their ticklishness, their shoes and socks getting removed during the tickling, and so on and so forth, all the way until it reaches to that point I’ve previously mentioned.

It’s very understandable for artists not to do it since it’s a lot of unnecessary effort and work time to add onto it when a single image is enough for the majority to enjoy. It’s because of this that I take full advantage of how much quicker 3D art can be in terms of adding and changing a previous scene to help give that progression.

Besides that, I very much love having a lee squirm around from the tickling with minimal restraints. Mainly to show them do cute movements like tilting their heads, trying to avoid the ticklish sensations on certain body parts, or to just let it all out and laugh as they let their bodies receive all the ticklish love that I feel they deserve.

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

I think illustrations allow more creative scenarios that real life can’t reproduce without the loss of authenticy. I mean you can’t really replicate tiny creatures tickling inside clothing or have tickle plants be in real life without having to fake it, haha.

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

Like foot fetish, tickling is an interesting concept where it varies heavily on what the enjoyer leans towards. Some lean on the restraints, some love how closely it associates to other fetishes like feet, bellies, BDSM, humility, etc, and some like me just find it adorable to see a cute laugh and getting the love that they deserve.

There’s clearly a lot more aspects that people enjoy from tickling, but I think a lot would enjoy how vulnerable a lee is during tickling. It doesn’t matter how many restrains, which body part is targeted or on display, or how both parties feel about tickling as a lee or a lee, they all seem to correlate on how vulnerable a lee whether it is sadistically, masochistically, comedically, wholesomely or a mixture.

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

If I were to choose a singular post, I’d say that it’s “Cynthia, the Ticklish Trespasser” because of the length, it being a cute/fun animation, the progression of her losing her footwear and stockings during the video, and how I managed to sync it up with the music I used. It’s one that I have proudly as my pinned post currently on Twitter/X.

Honorable mention goes to the main reason why I’ve started making tickle content, my many and still ongoing tickle works involving Android 18. Every time I upload one, it always surprises me how many people love my art involving her no matter how often I use her. It makes me happy knowing how I can still focus on my favorite character without the fear of them being seen as overused.

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

In terms of artistic goals, I definitely want to learn how to create/edit my own models in softwares like Blender. There’s clear limits to the software that I use in terms of who or what can I have added to a scene, so being able to use a more flexible software would help improve my content drastically.

Other than that, my other goal is to be able to create a series of tickling pics involving characters from a franchise. A series that I can consider my magnum opus and as the definitive of what I make.

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

 It’s hard to explain because I don’t really interest myself in this debate. But all I can say is that I think that solely using ai can’t help enrich tickle representation. I have yet to see any AIart that I’ve enjoyed a lot in comparison to hand drawn tickle art made by the people of this community. At the moment, they feel more like extra fluff to tickle representation, but never something that should replace hand drawn or 3D art.

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