Tickle Artists #38: Interview with BadAsh01

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

 My name is BadAsh01. About a year ago I started making NSFW 3d renders that focus on different fetishes, mainly bondage, tickling and foot fetish. I was a lurker of this type of content for years and wanted to reverse the roles, making the content myself for the like-minded people to see.

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

I create my 3d-renders in software called Daz3D. After the render, I use Photoshop to edit errors, insert backgrounds, fx and sometimes add dialogue. I have many artists who I look up to (3d-artists and drawing-artists). If I could name one that really inspired me to create 3d-render artwork, it was JennyGirlArt. I was baffled at her renders, not knowing this type of artwork was even possible.

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

I figured out my love for tickling (and foot fetish) because of one of the classics: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles scene where April O’Neil gets tickled. In the early days of the internet I discovered more people with the same mindset as me and discovered various artists who were creating tickling-artwork. The urge to create this content myself actually came to me about a year ago. Mostly because I was more of a lurker. Also, I don’t think my drawing-skills are good enough to be posted online. But with tools like Daz3D I can finally bring my fantasies to life and share them with others.

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

I love a good bondage-position in which the feet are at the center of attention. This usually means stocks, wallstocks or any other form of contraption. I also like to create little scenarios, building up the tension. Starting with the shoes and socks on, only to be removed and the barefeet-tickling in the next panels.

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?

I love to infuse different elements into my works. I love to include some teasing, either from the tickler or the ticklee. Some pleading / begging. Letting the ticklee go from normal to a sweaty, drooly mess. I also like to occasionally include some humor into my work (cheesy puns, wordplay, that kinda stuff). That is why I usually create a little comic, to include all these aspects into my works.

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

The best part about drawings / 3d-renders of tickling-scenarios: there are no limits. I can create the most diabolical tickle-machines that would be impossible to create in real life. I can bend models to make them fit into weird poses like wall-stocks for example (those would break a real person in half I guess :p). And the ticklees and ticklers are not limited; from monstergirls, aliens, orcs to videogame-characters like Lara Croft or Lady Dimitrescu. The only limit is your own mind ^^.

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

This is by far the hardest question. I think this is different for every person. For me it is about the intimacy and relation between the tickler and the ticklee. Tied down or locked up, nowhere to go. It creates this dom/sub relation which I kinda like. It also opens up this weird ‘what-if’ scenario. For example: what if Lara Croft would be tied down and tickled? How long would she hold out, would she enjoy it? My artwork usually starts from that point of view and can only hope more people are wondering the same ^^.

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

I recently started working more on my lighting and details of the models like sweat, plastered hair after the tickle torture. Just more details to create a more livid 3d-render. For example: Ellie interrogated phase 2 (wet skin, food-covered feet, more focused tickle-scene) and Overwatch vs Valorant: Tracer lickled by Raze (because I was working on a blanket-wrap bondage-scenario for days and it finally worked XD).

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

At this moment I am still making my renders on a pretty old rig. The renders take a long time. I have to do my background / set-building outside of Daz3D in Photoshop to make the renders less demanding. So I was planning on buying a new rig, built for faster rendering which will create more detailed renders. I am planning on learning a bit about animations, so I can bring my tickle-scenarios to life. In general: I would just like to keep making content for like-minded people, offer free requests and have a fun time meeting new people online.

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

So far I haven’t seen any AI-artwork that could replace an artist. To create that perfect tickle-scene of a ticklee trapped and being tickled by another individual, I haven’t seen AI creating such scenes… yet. But I do think AI could be used as an enrichment tool for an artist on his own works (for example easier to edit errors).

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