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Wellred Weekly
Volume 1, Number 5 : February 7, 2012
 
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Spanking Artist: Kami Tora
Wellred Weekly explores the spanking art of Kami Tora.




How long have you been drawing spanking art?
I couldn't say exactly when I drew my first spanking pic, but I've been drawing adult/erotic stuff for 15 years or so.

Where can your spanking art be seen?
I have a spanking gallery over at: Anime OTK

and a fan site, which includes all of my other kinds of art at: Kami Tora Fan Club

I also have a forum at: http://futanari.org/bbs/

What inspires you to draw?
I'm not always sure about that one. Mostly, I like to draw more than anything. Sometimes I'll get an idea for a spanking pic, and it won't leave my head until I either draw it or try to draw it or until I get frustrated to the point of setting it aside for a while. Sometimes a terrible pun I think of will trigger an idea for a spanking pic, and that will get the ball rolling. I suppose it's natural for me, an artist obsessed with women's legs and asses, to get into spanking art.

Where do you get your ideas from?
Like every artist, everything I see provides "idea potential". Sometimes I'll just come across a photo that is mesmerizing, and it'll make me want to draw it myself! I enjoy collecting images from the pulp magazines, which are full of spectacular paintings and crazy ideas. Many times, another artist will do something that makes me think of a "response" work; either something similar to what they've done, or a total reversal of what he/she has drawn. I tend to draw original characters rather than established, recognizable characters in everything I do, but once in a while a request or an idea will lend itself to doing a popular or known character.

Are there other artists that interest or inspire you?
There are very few artists that don't inspire me in some way, and I can appreciate an artist's intent even when their technique is wanting. As far as artists go, I have deep respect for guys like Bill Ward and Gil Elvgren (for different reasons), and countless unnamed or forgotten pulp illustrators from back in the day.

Do you have a particular technique or way that you go about drawing?
Often, I'll pull out a sheet of 8.5' by 11' copy paper, turn it horizontally, and bisect it (roughly) down the middle. This gives me two work areas of about 4.25' x 5.5'. I can usually keep my figure proportions true this way. I start sketching with a blue pencil, and sometimes I'll just pencil or ink right over my sketch. More often, however, I'll have to use a light table to tighten my scribbles to a more finished line. These days, I tend to scan my finished pencils rather than inking, unless it needs to be REALLY precise.

Do you prefer to draw in colour or black & white/greyscale?
Depends. Color takes a lot more time, for one thing, and sometimes it hurts a pic more than helps it. I'm not above using spot color or "limited palettes" to give the pic a little help or atmosphere. I'd have to say that color is usually preferable to black and white.

Is there a target audience that you specifically aim at?
Always. I have a broad range of art that I draw, and whatever the audience is, I try to put myself in their shoes. If I'm doing a spanking pic, I'm trying to reach the spanking enthusiast and what it is about the fetish that attracts them. Same goes with a soft/hardcore pic, or bondage, or femdom, or whatever.

Does your artwork represent your own spanking preferences?
I suppose it has to on some level, just to be able to find the will to complete the art! I have to have some rudimentary interest in the scene, otherwise it ends up on the stack of unfinished works. My fascination with a woman's buns makes spanking pics a breeze to draw, since my interest is high. When I draw F/m spankings, it's a little more difficult, since I don't have the same obsession with male backsides. A woman getting spanked just feels so... natural. A man getting spanked is much kinkier to me!

Do you produce artwork which is not related to spanking as well?
I would say that only 25% of my art is spanking related. I draw many, many different genres. Spanking fans are wonderfully vocal with praise (which every artist likes to hear about), so I gravitate to them if I'm feeling needy.

Do you draw just for personal pleasure or for profit?
I mostly draw for fun as a hobby. I've done some artwork for money, but hobbies are more enjoyable when they are done for fun.

Have you considered using your artwork in spanking publications/books?
I've had a few offers for illustrating books, both spanking and otherwise, and I've occasionally done some art for them, but I try not to agree to projects, deadlines, and commissions too often, since my paying job takes most of my time.

Do you have any plans for future artwork?
I've been doing a set of naughty playing card images, each one with a freshly-spanked girl. I hope one day to actually have all 52 images, but that's going to take some time! Apart from that, I have some genre-specific spanking themes including a sort of 1950's domestic housewives getting put over their husbands' knees, and a contemporary couple where the husband is constantly punished by his wife for ogling the coeds. Somewhere in the stacks is a clumsy girl who can't hold a job, so she's always in a new scenario/occupation getting her bottom smacked.
 
21 comments:
bendover said...
Beautiful work. Wow! I enjoy reading and writing fiction, but a picture by some people is sometimes worth a thousand words as they say.

B
7 February 2012 20:51
jimc said...
yes i do not give you your due as often as i wish. Great art. I enjoy your expressions, your coloring and esp. your otk. I am a m/f enthusist and those are fantastic. So thank you for all your hard work. I enjoy your spanking art the most, but you are a very great artist. Thank you again for the article and a chance to thank you for your artwork and sharing it as you do. have a great day.
Jim
7 February 2012 23:05
jsanon said...
Absolutely the sexiest spanking art work ever drawn. I have been a fan ever since I found your site.
8 February 2012 20:50
KJM said...
I have been your fan from the very first time I saw one of your spanking pictures. Thank you for your interview beautifully illustrated.
8 February 2012 21:00
CrimsonKidCK said...
Kami Tora's a master of drawing feminine derrieres, especially ones that have just been thoroughly spanked to a glowing redness, along with the young ladies' tearstreaked faces.

I generally enjoy his F/M spanking artwork, although some of the chastised guys having hugely oversized sexual 'equipment' can make them look rather bizarre. (The genital size appears to be even more exaggerated in his F/M 'tease-and-denial' drawings.)

Still, AFAIC that's better than his drawings of otherwise attractive females who have ridiculously massive erections--whatever that's supposed to represent, it's definitely not my kink... --C.K.
9 February 2012 04:51
barretthunter said...
I love this art. It particularly provides a brilliant snapshot of action: the figures seem to be cautht in the midst of movement. There are a number of role reversal pictures (teacher spanked by pupil, for example) that I treasure.
9 February 2012 10:12
njrick said...
Great artwork. I agree with CK on the appeal of the well-spanked female derrieres as drawn. I can't wait to order the deck of cards when it's finished.
11 February 2012 01:55
islandcarol said...
Your images are a pleasure to view. I can tell you have found your bliss, What a wonderful talent.
IC
12 February 2012 02:26
TheEnglishMaster said...
Excellent pictures - as BH said, you capture moments of action brilliantly, and as for the red bottoms ...
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and work.
Do please let is know here when your deck is complete...
19 February 2012 00:33
CarolinaPaddler said...
You are an amazing artist who has the ability to tell a story through your drawings. The library has struck gold with this line of articles and drawings exploring spanking art and those behind the etchings.
19 February 2012 16:47
tamlynn said...
Kami Tora is a little strange at times ie femdom and giant penis's but the spanking art is awsome. Tears, buckets of tears, scarlet bums and welted asses, shoes flying off and many colored panties sliding down drumming legs. Truly an artist for the spanking ages. As the Englishmaster requested keep working on a complete deck of carda please.
6 May 2012 21:42
Dufus said...
I have long admired your work. I find it erotic and humorous.
18 April 2013 00:44
Underling said...
Glad to see this article again since I never got around to commenting on it before.

Kami Tora is one of my very favourite spanking artists, and hugely inspirational to me (I would say 'influential', but I'd really struggle to approximate his style!)

Hard to say what it is that most appeals to me, but I think it's the combination of sexinesss and wit. There's a playfulness about his art, even when the punishments themselves look severe.

I also love his economy - there's never an unneccessary stroke (no pun intended). His technique looks effortless, although I'm quite sure it isn't!

Thanks for your wonderful drawings, KT - and here's to many more!
18 April 2013 01:40
barb said...
Great artwork. You are quite an artist. Thank you for your article and thank you for your artwork.
18 April 2013 12:30
umesh said...
Great artwork! Would make fantastic picture stories!
18 April 2013 21:16
kerrsutherland said...
I've always Loved your work. You're one of my favorite authors. Frequently, when I'm feeling better I look at your stuff and imagine I'm in your world. It helps somewhat.
19 April 2013 15:30
brad said...
I am a big fan of spanking art and you are one of the best. Been viewing it for years. Wish there were more sites to view, the spanking scenarios that we fantasize about are in the artists imagination that comes to vision in illustration.
29 August 2013 22:01
Cuchim said...
Man this is a time capsule, I was big fan of theirs when I was younger but I haven't followed their work over the years. Seeing this was a blast of nostalgia of simpler days looking at quality art.
27 October 2022 08:11
BlooDenim said...
I've always been a fan of this artwork. Different in it's interpretation to Paula Meadows, possibly poking more fun, but showing the pain in a more tongue-in-cheek way.
The secnarios are inventive and well described. I wish I had a tenth of such talent!
25 January 2023 12:04
Aerolife said...
It looks like both of his links and the gallery at Anime OTK have been taken down since a couple of months now.
26 April 2023 07:46
Aerolife said...
Small correction: the gallery by Anime OTK is still up, but you have to look manually for it. It had not been updated since August 2022 though.
26 April 2023 07:49

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