Bear Feet

While I enjoy all types of men, I must admit a bit of a fondness for the bears. Stocky, hairy men tend to have wide, thick sexy feet. My piece this week is appropriately titled 'Bear Trap' and it depicts the cruel fate of a bear caught in the woods, while two of his buddies look on in horror. I already have the sequel to this piece in mind, in which the three bears take revenge on the Forest Ranger.

Sloth's piece this week shows two cops who definitely cross the line in their interrogation room. This drawing is actually very similar to request we received a few weeks ago, asking for a prisoner tickled in his jail cell. This piece was completed before that request came in, so that one is still on the way.



Getting back to the subject of bears, we received a request this week for an illustration of John Goodman and his huge bare feet getting tickled while he sleeps. That's one I'm looking forward to tickling...er...tackling. ;)

Keep an eye on this blog in the coming weeks. I may be posting more often than just once a week, and will begin writing about more than just the current updates.

Achilles

Early Sketches

Today's update includes the first time we're posting an early sketch of a drawing. Sloth began last week's Orc piece with a completely different perspective, but he decided to abandon it and start from scratch. We thought you might want to see his early thoughts about the gang of tickling Orcs. Because it's not a finished piece, we're posting it in the free section.

Also in our free section is the picture I made for all my MySpace friends to thank them for adding me to their buddy lists.

My member's piece this week is one of my favorites so far. It doesn't exactly depict tickling against someone's will, but rather for the pure enjoyment of it. A weary king calls his loyal jester into his court for a few laughs...



I hope you enjoy this weeks updates! We're busy working on some of the requests we received when we first opened.

Stay tuned!

Achilles

Greetings from the Beach!

Hey everyone!

I'm on vacation this week, but I'm still checking in for your requests and continuing with the weekly updates. The weather is great, and there's plenty of footwatching ;)

This week we've got our very first adult content piece from Sloth, involving some rather kinky Orcs. Fans of fantasy creatures should really check that one out. Also my piece is the first drawing of a Mexican wrestler character, who may make more appearances in the future.



The requests are really starting to roll in. Here are just a few of the ones we've received over the past week:

-A very hairy Italian man tickled on his muscular but very ticklish feet by a smooth blonde man.

-A Carlo Masi type locked into stocks and offered up to passersby for $50 per tickle.

-Cops tickle interrogating a prisoner in his cell.

-Tickling as a modern art installation...this one was great, and to describe it too much would ruin the effect. ;)

-A blacksmith, tickled in a dungeon by a king.

-A casting couch scenario, with a casting director tickling the eager actors.

These are all wonderful suggestions, and they've given us tons of material for the near future. I will remind everyone that for the next few updates, we're still pulling images from the head start we gave ourselves before we launched.

One thing I want to point out is that not too many members (or non-members) are taking advantage of our free gallery section. We have a Photopost feature in our free section that allows artists to post their own tickling artwork in a gallery that they create for themselves. I hope more people take advantage of that section soon.

Have fun!

Achilles

Our Very First Update. Happy Labor Day!

We're proud to present the very first update of the site since we opened last week. Below is a glimpse of what can be found in our member's section today:



As you can see, my drawing this week features a Chinese dragon which leads me to a request: can anyone out there read Chinese characters? I did some research for this particular drawing and included two characters which I believe represent the words "dragon" and "tickle". However, I could be completely off base.

We've gotten in some great requests this week, including the following:

-Anderson Cooper tickled by a disgruntled intern.

-A mafia interrogation scene involving sheer dress socks.

-An overpowered security guard tickled for information, also in dress socks.

-Two very elaborately described scenes from our very first fan to request artwork, Jay. They're too long to get into here, but they're good ones!

Concerning requests: We gave ourselves a bit of a head start with our artwork, so we would always be a couple of weeks ahead of the demand. That means that requests won't start showing up for a couple more updates. Stay tuned!

I'd like to thank every single member for joining. We couldn't do it without you!

Achilles

Early Feedback, and About Updates

I wanted to post a message about the frequency of updates for the site. We'll be updating on Mondays, which will give you a little something to look forward to at the beginning of the week. I'll be posting to this blog on the same day of each week.

Early response to the site has been great, and I've appreciated all of your feedback. Here's an excerpt of an e-mail I received the other day:

"I just joined, and I wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying the site. I love the work of both artists, and I am really impressed with how Achilles' work has evolved and, in my opinion, gotten hotter and more creative...I also love Sloth's Indian picture. The drawing is utterly original and drawn beautifully. I would like to see more stuff like that--creative fantasy with an interesting perspective...I would also love to see some forced foot worship thrown in with the tickling. I also love pictures showing the reaction right before the tickling actually starts."

There will be a lot more fantasy scenarios to come, and I had already given some thought to including some foot worship scenes into the mix as well. I also agree that sometimes the anticipation of the tickle can be just as hot as the act itself.

I hope you're all enjoying yourselves! Until next Monday,

Achilles

And so, it begins...

Welcome to the first installment of my weekly blog!

More than ten years ago I discovered the community of male foot and tickling fans through the mail order club The Foot Fraternity by accidentally stumbling across one of their ads in a magazine. This was pre-internet, before it was as easy as typing the word "tickling" into Google and having hundreds of sites at your fingertips.

I'd always been aroused by tickling, but had no idea that I wasn't alone. Material on the subject of male tickle torture was rare, and I when the contacts I made through the FootFrat found out that I was an artist I got many requests for drawings. I did roughly a dozen black and white illustrations, and traded them for some other materials.

Years later, the internet arrived and suddenly tickle fetishists had ways to find both material and each other. I was surprised to find a few of my drawings showing up on message boards now and then. They had sometimes even been altered to fit someone else's specific fantasy.

I've been working as a professional illustrator for the past 10 years, and I recently made the decision to get back into fetish art. This site is the companion to my male tickling illustration website www.achillesheelart.com. In this blog I'll be addressing questions I receive from members, listing the most interesting requests I get that week and occasionally posting sketches of works in progress.

Achilles