TKLFest Presentation Part 2 (Patreon)

After I had established my identity as an artist with some members of the tickling community, I wound up getting in touch with the creators of the next foot fetish 'zine, Foot Scene. This publication was very similar to the NFN but was a bit more slick. The paper quality and photo quality was a bit better this time around. Also, the people behind this magazine were the same ones behind KINK Video, and they were making fantastic foot fetish and tickling video content.

Four of my drawings appearing in Foot Scene, but back then I was credited as "FootArt" as I hadn't come up with the whole Achilles persona yet. They were mostly foot worship related, but there was one tickling illustration of a man with his feet in stocks being tickled. I found out much later that drawing became the favorite of many, many people.

Following that, there was yet another 'zine put out by Jon K, famous for both starting the MTMTN (Man to Man Tickling Network) and also being the man behind the very first TKLFests! His magazine was called "Tickle Master" and I illustrated a story that appeared in one of the issues. (I have to note, as I did in the live presentation, that looking at these old drawings is PAINFUL).

And now, we move forward in time. After having somewhat established myself in the community, I went through some life changes. I got into a long-term relationship with a non-fetish partner. I had been working retail all through college and for a few years afterwards, but I landed my first full-time job as a professional commercial artist (I job I had for 11 years). I stopped creating new fetish art.

During those 10 years, something amazing happened: the internet. The world changed virtually overnight with the advent of search engines and newsgroups. Suddenly, anyone with an interest that was outside of the norm simply had to type it into their computer and they discovered online communities of people just like them. Now that everyone had access to email, the days of needing to have literal pen pals disappeared.

Of course I began to look for tickling online and was totally amazed that I kept stumbling on the little ball-point pen drawings I had done nearly 10 years earlier. People had scanned them in and started sharing them online, sometimes adding text to the images, sometimes actually coloring them or altering them to more fit their own fantasies. I found out the "Officer Johnson" text was added to my stocks tickle drawing by none other than Richard Ivey himself on his Geocities site that predated MyFriendsFeet!

The biggest deal at the time was finding my art in a gallery at Jack's Male Tickling Rack, which was infamously the very best of the early male tickling sites. I wasn't credited since I hadn't really named myself yet, so my drawings were put into the "miscellaneous" gallery.

This was the beginning of my idea to create new tickling art, but this time more seriously. My thought was: if those terrible 10 year old drawings were still resonating with people, maybe I could put the 10 years of experience I'd gained since them to create newer, better ones. By this time, MyFriendsFeet had launched and I thought that maybe I could do some work for him, since I'd seen some tickle artwork there already.

The first step in creating new work was to take some of those older drawings and remaster them. I scanned them in, tried to correct some of the glaring anatomic issues and colored them for the first time. The last two slides are some of the reworked drawings.

Stay tuned for the final Part 3!