It was here when I made my toon debut in this TFTA tribute piece. As you can see, my early design is quite lame by standards, trying to portray myself as some intimidating tickle baron, but we all know that's changed. Anyway, this is a tribute to two of my favourite characters in the tickling community: Swindows' Topin (on the right) and Yenny by the tickling art legend... Ozzy. Yenny's got an online comic right now, and Swindows is back under the alias Tomato Dragon.
Around this time, I had recently discovered Scamwich's wonderful foot art, and he did do tickling every now and then as a diversification of his love for plates. Here are two of his older characters Sola Mia and Shaneesha getting tickled by older versions of Kaysie and B. It's my little unique way of babysitting for Scamwich's doyennes while he's away. Sola and Shaneesha were great characters. I wish he brought them back, but I don't think we could be arsed enough...
My second ever gift art for that wonderful old bear guy Scamwich. Here he is, pimpin' out and getting comfy with Kaysie and B by hugging up to them with a big-ass smile on his mug. You can see me there looking rather befuddled as to what's going on. Perhaps I'm wondering why he didn't ask permission first! Nah, now really! He has every intention to make Selis his one and only right now! :P
Even in my first year into the community, there was a plethora of superb artists around doing their thang, so in homage, I came up with Tickle Minatures: Tiny versions of the recognisable artists of that time. Chibis, if you wanna coin a proper term. The artists featured here are me, Scamwich, Chester Skunk, Ozzy, Iggy and Synful Pryde (in a hermit shell to reflect his humble personality). An early league of tickle artists.
In my early days, I was following an online comic called Lowest Common Denominator, now called WLCD, by Bryan Richter. I discovered this through the TMF somewhere, I can't remember. Anyway, quite a number of tickling moments in it, enough to satisfy the ticklephiles in the community. This is my first fan art for Bry and his newscaster girls: Jules McIntyre dressed as a cavegirl in Hallowe'en... with a chibi Chimp armed with a feather nearby...
After the over-the-top comic shenanigans that was Pulp Tickling, I wanted to follow it up with a multi-tribute mini-comic showing the "film" premiere of the aformentioned comic. It features a few artists characters from me, Scamwich, Ozzy and some old favourites, with the WLCD crew doing the news coverage of the event. The highlight of the premiere was the wild scrap between B and Scamwich's Sola Mia: Two fiery redheads who got into an ego clash!
When I did this, it's been my first bit of tribute art for around a year, which was down to me being so busy over the summer and university and all. It's also my first one for Cheshire Cat too, in his old feline form getting all comfy with a barefoot B, who had just changed her look recently at the time. Notice the Beatles, Arthur Lee and Velvet Underground references. Well, the whole pic has a '60s feel to it, with B and Cheshire Cat being herbal and all.
Kahoshiden was only a part of the tickling artist community for a few months before he apporached me for a requests trade: I'd tickle one of his characters, while he tickles one of mine. In this case, I chose his main girl Katsuima to be my next victim in this case. Since Katsuima is a catgirl, and I like animals licking feet, I put 2 and 2 together, and had the poor lass get her feet licked by two cats. Hence the obvious case of irony...
I've seen Spiderdude around the foot and tickling Yahoo! Clubs and Groups gone by in the past, showcasing his talents and unique style of drawing wherever he goes. Along the way I acquainted him and joined up in his Yahoo! Group, and here's my first tribute piece for the 8-legged one: Me and him tickling his big-footed anime girl, called Jackie I believe. While he's a good artist, his character naming is somewhat questionable!
Another tribute toon for Bryan Richter's WLCD crew. Here, it's the birthday of the affable Jules McIntyre, so really, this pic is a present for her. As I'm giving her a gift, she comes up and give me a really big hug and thanking me. It's such a big hug in fact, that I'm nearly blue in the face. Bryan tells me the person whom he based Jules on gave strong, suffocating hugs like that, so I guess I'm kinda accurate in that aspect!
Kahoshiden was put out of action for a good while due to a broken collarbone he sustained while skateboarding. He therefore asked us artists out there to draw him some "Get Well" cards. Mine came out first, and it has the beenie-donning dude cheering me on while I tickle Selis. He gets overexcited and aggravates the injury. Serves him right! :P This was the first time I drew Kahoshiden I think. Cheshire Cat made one too, and boy was that one hilarious!
Officially my first rendition of fellow artist Khali. She's been in the community for a considerable amount of time, posting the odd bit of art here and there to certain themed websites, as well as to myself and Scamwich. Just like many artists here, she loves feet, and her knowledge of barefoot video game girls is very comprehensive. So when she came up with her online Khali alias, she had to leave out ALL footwear!
Khali's second strike. Khali is known as a skilled fighter, but she happens to be a proficient tickler too! She shows off her giggle-making skill by taking down Kaysie onto her stomach, sitting on her legs, and tickling her bare feet. Khali's so good, she gets Kaysie bashing the floor frantically and she didn't even need to tie her up! Somehow, you get the feeling that someone will get to the purple-haired one someday...
My third Khali pic in a row. Well, it was about time Khali got "a taste of her own medicine". In this, authorities looking for the female barefoot warrior finally get their woman, and by order of the council, she gets publically tortured by stocks, with a goat licking cream off her soles. So much for being barefoot as a strength. I've kinda themed this in a generic RPG style, hence the vividly coloured hair of the residents in this!
My first bit of gift art for TMF art stalwart Dark Convoy. It's of his mega-cute, blonde character Erica. It kinda surprised me that Erica is actually 5'9'' in the storylines, as she looks so petite in Dark Convoy's drawings. I'm around that height myself, but that's another matter. Anyway, I'm giving her armpits a good tickling, whilst I'm uttering a famous Fast Show quote. I'm leaving her feet alone for a future attack one day!
Scamwich and Cheshire Cat are just two tickling artists who are infatuated with Asian honey Selis, and with good reason too. She's cute as hell, has an attitude, and has some dead sexy feet too. Here, she's wrapped up tightly, feet and head showing only, while Cheshire Cat and Scamwich have her way with her. Well, just Cheshire Cat right now, since he ain't in no sharing mood, especially if it's a hairy-ass bear next up to pick up your scraps...
This is my first gift art for sl44n3sh, an anime artist hailing from Germany. Just like me in certain aspects, he digs the feet, is European, and got slated by Celtic Emperor in the past. This is my gift art for him: A tickle toon of his China Girl character, who kinda looks like a Chun-Li/Cammy hybrid with tanned skin. In a similar vein to Khali's piece, China Girl is publicly punished by the authorities. Female fighters get a bum deal when captured...
Gah! I can't believe I missed out putting this one in my site! One of the last classic comics I drew before switching to CG style, it features Cheshire Cat's main girls Cali, Isa and Miko. Using their tongues, they lick off sweet stuff from the sexy soles of Selis, Bey, and Rosa; who were my main three girls at the time. Meanwhile, myself and Cheshire Cat take notes while our unseen fanboy Aussie Monkey gets off from what he's seen. As GlaDOS from Portal would say: For science.