This is a reblog from a 18 November 2014 post at Infernal Wonders. It is by UK artist Huy Trong, whose text note to the illustration reads “A4 Coloured pencil sketch, about 2 and a half hours.”
I think I could study art for the next two-and-a-half decades and not come up with anything as exquisite as this.
I originally blogged this in a 26 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders, but my source for this was this post at the aptly-named Bondage Blog. The knowledgeable proprietor over there, Rope Guy, included this commentary:
’m not sure exactly what the eerie ray the bug-eyed monsters in the tentacle-suits are pointing at this poor girl’s bottom is supposed to be doing to it. But judging by the rapt attention of the audience, it must be something rather entertaining!
Along with this attribution:
Art is a detail from the cover of an old Marvel Science Stories.
We’ll be returning a bit to the subject of Bait in a few days, but here I just wanted to dig up what was probably one of its inspirations. As with so many things, Bacchus of ErosBlog has provenance:
These are two images from a set of at least four (others are here and here) featuring an encounter between Ingrid, a character from the Street Fighter game franchise, and Shuma-Gorath, a monster from a Robert E. Howard story later used in several Marvel comics. Artist information for this series could not be discovered.
Reblogged from a 16 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders.
Another classic theme. Bacchus’s research:
This image is called “Girl suspended in a fluid-filled chamber” where it appears on artist Tim Cook’s web page. The artist writes “These images were created using Poser and Moray, then rendered in the Persistence of Vision Raytracer.” Some more works by this artist are available on his DeviantArt page.
Reblogged from a 19 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders.
I originally blogged this series of five spacegirls in this 17 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders. They are the work of American pinup artist Olivia De Berardinis (b. 1948), who has an official website here. They were introduced on the tumblr Android Ghost, which appears to be gone, but part of which survives in the Internet Archive.
And she’s perhaps not going to like it. Bacchus’s explanation:
This is cover art from one of the nearly 150 Maghella fumetti comics published in Italy and France in the 1970s and 1980s. According to this Italian eBay auction it is issue #124 from 1979. On the cover is visible the text “Maghella. Vietato ai minori di seidici anni.” There is an Italian eBay auction here that offers a high quality reproduction of the cover art (without markings); the artist is identified by the seller as Renato Averardo Ciriello.
Reblogged from a 20 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders.
It looks like she’s turning into Campari and enjoying it. Bachhus’s research:
This is a photograph by Spanish photographer Pedro Morales (his FaceBook page is here) from a series called La Gastronomía en Imágenes (Gastronomy in Pictures) that you can see here. Although little information about Morales appears to be available in English, this Spanish-language blog post has a bit.
This image is reblogged from this 14 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders. At the time, it was the subject of provenance research by Bacchus at ErosBlog. Here is what he found:
The signature on this piece identifies it as the work of Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock. This page identifies Hitchcock as a prominent magazine illustrator and provides the image title “Back There in the Grass” as drawn for the December 16, 1911 Collier’s.
Seems like pretty racy stuff for 1911!
This image is reblogged from a 5 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders, whence it was in turn reblogged from the aptly-named Bondage Blog. The intrepid proprietor over there, Rope Guy, added this commentary.
This is from an (I think) Italian horror comic called Terror Blue. In later panels these girls are walking around as partial skeletons, so I do not think this procedure in the tanks is intended to be a healthy one.
Uh oh.
This is a tube girl in this Japanese-language gallery while I was researching another post. What made the illustration stand out for me was its internalization of a classic tube-girl trope. You see, back in the days-that-would-have-been-bad-but-at-least-we-had-pulp-magazines, we often encountered illustrations like this one, which I posted on 14 August 2017:
or this one, which I posted on 3 April 2017:
or finally this one, which I posted on 14 October 2016:
Notice the common theme? The artists working at that time couldn’t depict nudity (at least, not without running into legal and commercial problems), so putting girls in tubes gave them a way of implying nudity, but putting having the naughty bits concealed by metal rings that were presumably part of the tube’s construction, or occasionally steam or bubbles that were part of the “experiment” she was undergoing.
I doubt that the artist who made the primary illustration in this post faced any such constraints, but the glowing rings around our girl seem like a neat tribute to the older tradition. Provenance is very uncertain, but there is at least a version of the illustration that has captions, if any of you read Japanese.
