Witchy Patty

Another Halloween, and another missed opportunity to color this pic.  Poor Patty--she tries her hand at witchcraft, and the spell she casts just gets her bound, stripped, and buggered by her broomstick.  Nothing out of the ordinary for Patty, though.  Except for maybe how I've drawn her hands wrong--I'll fix that...maybe in time for next year!

Happy Halloween!

How I Roll

Here is my latest deviation at Deviantart (http://raoulster.deviantart.com) and the process from start to finish.  I start with a pencil on paper drawing.  I used to do pencil drawings with the thought of making them finished pieces, but now I draw them knowing that I will move to Photoshop.  Next, I clean up the lines on PS, then I paint in the shadow and the shading.  Figuring out where the shadows fall is a trick, and shading is tedious, but they both serve to bring out the three dimensionality of the pic.  Finally, I color the pic and highlight it, and viola!  A perverted work of "art".

This picture is a homage to the Dangerous Leigh stories of Doctor Krahe.  Please visit him at http://doctorkrahe.deviantart.com

Adjusting Helga

I recently made an adjustment to this picture, and it gives me a chance to make some notes on one of the characters here in Cracker County, Helga.

Helga von Leonhausen is a Matron of the Whip.  The Matrons are our county's disciplinary service, and while most of the punishments they handle are corporal in nature, they also perform the executions of the rather numerous condemned women we have here.  In fact, that is what Helga is doing in this picture her, applying capital punishment to a woman convicted of the most common capital crime here, lesbianism.  While the rest of the world slowly becomes more tolerant of all orientations, Cracker County stubbornly hangs onto those prejudices, and this poor woman is going to hang because of it.

You may have noticed that Helga is an amputee, and that is a direct result of her becoming a Matron.  The position of Matron is a coveted one, and competition for the post is fierce, thus, the training course is a difficult one, much like that for an elite military unit.  Helga, who emigrated here from a land of failed National Socialism, did not pass the training course on her first attempt (her language skills were still weak), but her second try was successful.  However, in order to be inducted into the corps of Matrons, Helga had to choose the removal of one of the following body parts:  an eye, a foot, or a hand.  Indeed, there are Matrons who display evidence of their persistence in attaining their goal in that they retried the Matron course enough times to lose all three body parts, but Helga's loss just serves to remind her how much the women of Cracker County need her brand of discipline.