This is the first drawing I did of Kaysie, and up to this day, it's probably the best. One of my all-time favourite drawings of mine. While my colour pencil skills are very sub par (as evident then and now), and my drawing skills weren't consistent as it is right now, there's a special charm to it. Maybe it's because Kaysie looks so damn cute and lurvely here, as are her pleadings. I love it, and I think you should love it too.
The feisty Kitty: Tied up, in the stocks, barefoot, and her sensitive soles feathered to an oblivion. No wonder she's tittering to tears. As you can see, this pic is inspired by legendary TFTA artist FTKL. His unique way of drawing tickled feet is superb. Look at the way the toes wriggle like crazy, as if tickling is painful! BTW, I drew this before joining the TMF in December 2000.
I drew a picture of Kaysie, B and Kitty and asked members of the TMF how they want to see them tickled. However, I could only complete one, because of the increasing workload I was getting at university. I liked the idea of animals licking a girl's soles, so I had Kaysie suffering at tongues of a couple of cats enjoying the chicken grease snack off her bound bare feet. Kitty's pleased with her work, but B (as always) is cynical about the whole thing.
My first A4 sized picture and my first comic. This marks the first appearance of Louis Fatone and Co.: The Tickle Mafia. It also has B tickled for the first time. Louis accuses Kaysie and B of a bungled operation, and interrogate them by furiously feather their feet until they are sweaty. They know nothing obviously, and the poor girls end up in tears after the ordeal. If my colour pencil technique was better, this'll would've been my greatest ever work.
Out of boredom, I drew this little gem around the spring/summer 2000, just before I discovered the tickling community. This was one of my favourites, but since then it has been surpassed when my drawing skills were (and still are) improving, obviously. The girls tickled from left to right are Lia, KJ (old look), (KJ's old mate), Kitty, Nixy (former girl group regular), (college friend), B and Star.
This pic shows me tickle Kaysie for the first time, and needless to say, there has been many more where that came from! I just strapped the canny lass down to a table and started cleaning the dirty soles of her bare feet with a couple of feathers. Kaysie thinks I'm doing this as an excuse to tickle her sensitive soles, but I'm doing her a favour because I love her! ;) And there's her thinking I some mad tickle-freak... the nerve!
I think this was the picture that started to make B popular amongst you. Nearly everything about her is so likeable: Her beautiful face, full lips, fabulous body, her long dyed-red hair, her sexy feet (now you lot love that) and that cute speech impediment she once had... she couldn't pronounce her R's! Hence her sweet little pleadings when I'm tickling her lovely feet. That "sandals off" incident did happen, and it drove me nuts when I dated her. A personal favourite of mine this one.
I think it was darthbarh's request. Seems this guy frequently asks artists to draw bound and gagged girls, though I never got any feedback from him. Never mind. Simple really, B is bound and gagged, and starting to fret about the man holding a feather who's coming out of the shadows. I don't harsh language will help... you can't talk. But wouldn't you feel the same way if you were in B's position?
I liked Star when I went to college with her. I fancied her for a bit when I was single. My former music classmate gets into an unsavoury situation with the good old Tickle Mafia, who (once again) accuse her of "being in their way". Hey, she was only on holiday in Sicily before going to university (she has itchy feet, in that she loves to travel) and she has to spend her time having her petite soles feathered for god-knows-when.
Dr. Wolfgang Darang was a character I devised around my pre-teens. When I used him again over time, I thought he would be a great tickle fiend. So I decided I'd bring him into the adventures. A man obsessed with torturing bare feet, he tickles the soles Kaysie and B's bare feet for a LONG time. Long enough to break their sanity to bits. But as you're already aware, he specialises in other areas of foot torture, but tickling is his forté.
Kaysie and B were doing me a favour when I was away at the Philippines. They were sorting out Kitty, who has pestered me, as well as tickling the girls too. So they got the feisty Kitty tickled by a machine built in a recliner chair. Not only is she tickled on her bare feet, but her very ticklish armpits too. Of course by then, everyone found Kitty's Achilles Heel, or should I say pits?
Definitely one of my favourite pictures, and some people agree: It's a classic. Basically, it's all the girls I know (pre-Rosa, Selis, May, etc.) captured by The Foot Soldierettes of Feather (led by Dr. Darang) and all their feet are tickled (possibly as a trap for me). So much going on (sole licking, tickling feet with feet), so many tickling utensils used and superb detail for an A4-size piece too. This is inspired by numerous group tickling pics I've seen. In the pic are: (Back row, l-r) Eys, Chick, J-Lo, Nixy, KJ. (Middle row) Lou, Lia, Star, Sooms. (Front row) B, Kitty, Kaysie.
Since I was a bit bored and lacking in inspiration somewhat (it happens EVERY year in the autumn), I asked my group members what I should do next. animetickler2000 (Tickling Rookie in the TMF) suggest having B in stocks and blindfolded whilst I tickled her bare feet with nice old featherduster. Got me back on the road, and doesn't this look fun? Well, B probably does, since it could be naughty! ;)
"Up above the streets and houses, Rainbow flying high..." For all you Brits, you'll remember this great kids show from your youth. You'll remember Rainbow stalwarts Bungle (the big brown gentle bear), George (the camp pink hippo with the funny voice) and everybody's favourite symbol of youth anarchy: Zippy (a strange orange thing with a zippable mouth). I did this out of fun, and not out some toking-out session. Kaysie will never look Zippy in the same way again...
A chilled-out piece with me and Kaysie relaxing together side-by-side. Unusually, I haven't tied up my then-girlfriend and tickled her feet till her wits end this time. Instead, I just brush a flower along the soles of her bare feet slyly. A bit of sweet-talk here too, as most couples do sometimes. Possibly my most relaxed piece in comparison to what I've done around at the time.
B is very popular, as you know. So popular, that one my members in my old group wanted to appear in one of my pics tickling her feet. Stepping forward is Jonny, an Italian kid with, like everyone else, a heavy infatuation with the affable young redhead. He definitely enjoyed his experience with B's lovely bare feet, but I'm not sure if the feeling is mutual from her.
Around this time, I was adding in refinements into my art, like shadowing and contrasts (which is VERY difficult to do with felt pens), better proportions, and clothing folds and creases. The latter is something I occasionally forget to draw, but the shadowing usually make it up. For once, B and Kaysie are doing the tickling... on each other. Whilst tickling each other, they try to rile each other up with some fun little teasing. Yummy.
In the UK, pubs (or as you people living over the pond call them... bars) have regular quizzes. My university student union's bar/pub has a regular quiz holds one as far as I'm aware of. Now, imagine if I ran one of these? I get 3 of my uni friends (who are not part of the main group now) to participate, but 2d, Sooms and the J-Lo girl didn't get a gander at the rules, and find out what happens if you get the wrong answer. Heh heh...
This picture marked the first appearance of popular brunette Rosa. Ironically, this isn't even a tickling picture. It's a foot torture one, at least before the actual torture. Dr. Darang is a proficient foot torture expert, as mentioned several times. So he has the poor young Rosa in stocks and is about to light a couple of candles under the soles of her bare feet. One of Rosa's many unfortunate moments kicked off here.
Somehow, this type of piece had to emerge. Not that I mind anyway! Previously, Barefoot Feminist Ania has got a taste of Kitty's soles. Now she has poor B at her mercy, locking her down and in high stocks whilst feathering and finger-stroking her soles and sucking on her toes real hard. It's turning Ania on, but is it doing the same to B? Or to you for that matter? This was a pseudo-request, as I was planning to do this myself.