Ix or Orcs?

Let me introduce the Ix, lovable green guys, basically my take on orcs.  Later on I'll stick in some of the material from my story bible about them, as long as there aren't too many spoilers.

The idea was to think of orcs as a created race, a kind of medieval supersoldier or replicant.   This makes a lot of the ethnic slurs in Tolkien et al a whole lot more offensive, if that's possible.   So you have a slave race, genetically engineered and they are the bad guys, apparently.  Humans however are genetically pure.  Now where else have I heard those ideas?

Why are they green?  Don't know yet, maybe they photosynthesise?

Working on The Broken Knight

Just letting you all know that I'm working hard on the second Crooked Sabre story, "The Broken Knight".  It's all pencilled and lettered, just gotta get the inks finished, coloured and we are away.

This is so slow, wish I had a studio like Herge.

Art or Porn?

Back in the day, this used to be a big issue.  Then people were afraid that the internet would normalise porn to the extent that it would become everyday.  Weirdly enough this has kind of come to pass, but not in the alarm mongering 'think of the children' kind of way.

We are more used to porn, we can see basically anything we can dream up, and our capacity for shock isn't what it used to be.  On the other hand this has stepped up the standards for porn.   If you want to sell porn online you can just have two bored people fucking passionlessly.  You need porn with guts, with heart.

Maybe the latest taboo to be broken is affection.  Can we show people fucking who seem to like each other, and is it possible to convey this kind of connection?

This is the sort of thing on my mind as I draw Crooked Sabre.  Can I do more than draw rude pictures?  Does the comic format add more than just a series of porn pics? Can I do something with character, with the relationship between the characters, that does more than just show fucking?  

Am I just fooling myself?  I'm a beginner at this stuff, let me know what  you think.

The Rebel

Yes, its an adult blog

Let's get this out of the way, right from the start.  This IS an adult blog, hell let's just go the whole hog and say its porn.  No point in trying to nice it up as 'adult erotica', it's all about the sex.  This is mainly going to be where I post my Crooked Sabre sex comic, but I'll also stick up design art, bits and pieces.

I'll talk more about the Crooked Sabre comic in a bit.  I'm having trouble finding a home.  The comic is on Y! Gallery, which is fine for the man on man action but I've got some bi stuff coming up and they have very strict rules about that kind of stuff.

Which is a little odd,  they allow very borderline underage stuff there but no women.  I guess theres a worry that if they opened the gates they would be overrun by generic straight hentai porn.

So this will be the only place I can publish the whole unexpurgated comic.  Until someone complains and I get shut down.

First Post

Nervous, in anticipation, I'm putting up a picture just to see what happens.