Someone wrote about my work in a blog a few years back and it stuck with me. They were talking about art vs porn. It was an argument that one was one and one was the other. That nudity could be art and only the previewer could very say what was which.
I took some time and finally asked this guy "why do you feel one is bad and one is good?" To me we are all naked all the time and in that we find attractiveness and sometimes sexuality but nothing is wrong with painting, drawings, photographing it or in the right times between agreeing adults acting on it. I have never understood why we have to fight to be free of other people's hang ups. It makes me feel tired.
I have been a painter for a very long time. I have dreamed of comics, murals, books and films but never split them into naughty or prudish.
This guy asked me to do a commission yesterday and I said "what's it about?" He wanted some type of bicyclist. I don't care much for painting bicyclist so I told him if he had a good idea for it "maybe." He started comments about "not going to do it if there are not tits and hair." I forgot how much I have hated random commissions. There is almost always a backhanded comment. Not all commissions but a lot are not what I have ever wanted to do so I say "no" a lot.
It all just makes me tired.
To some I make them see me as a guy who makes them feel like strong women and to others I guys I am well received but the last I'm tits and hair. :) Oh well back to the studio. More making to be had.