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Originally Posted by siliconstag
I'm a professional artist, and have constantly worried that contributing to the fetish community would someday come back to me, and blackmark me from mainstream work. I've wanted to direct projects, and even fund a few, but haven't for fear of being discovered. Sound familiar to any of you?
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I think the processes here are pretty mainstream. It depends on the extremes that you go to and what you depict. Is it done in good taste or is it lewd.
The more lewd the less accepted it will probably be. Stay away from thing that make people say "Dude that is really fucked up!"
Each of the process here have been shown on television, even on kids shows and are generally accepted.
It is not so much the process itself that is the issue but what the artist intends and what the end viewer perceives the image to convey.
In greek myth medusa turns people to stone if they look at her. Petrification. Most people read, or see that depicted and move on. Some might reflect upon the transformation "I wonder what that would feel like?". While for a few the thought of the subject getting hard makes them hard.
Disney's Brother Bear is a transformation story. Treasure Planet has a catwoman. Now clamor over those.
Now certainly as coffeeman said there are seedier sides of the fetish community and if you cater to them the more likely you would be considered an outcast.
As a professional artist, you could always claim, it was a job/commission work. Just one aspect of your portfolio. filling a niche. An Artist has to eat after all.
Who knows you may find greater success in the fetish community than you would in the mainstream.
You could also create an alias for your fetish contributions. If you had a website with this fetish artwork, really who would know it was you. I'm sure someone really obsessed with finding out who created that artwork might be able to track you down. But wouldn't they need to see the site first? So wouldn't they have to search for it. Do you have people out to get you that would go to such extremes?
Now up to this point I have been talking about images.
You said you wanted to direct or fund projects. Funding is easy use a money order. I assume if you professionally direct there are union rules that must be followed and thus your name would be credited.
I suppose it would then depend on which fetish you would focus on and how it was depicted in the context of the story. I think the transformation would be less of an issue than if it was just bad.
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Originally Posted by siliconstag
If you weren't worried about people being wierded out by your fetishes, what would you do differently?
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I'm not worried about people being weirded out by my fetishes. I would even expect them to be weirded out. I don't go broadcasting them, "Hi, I'm John Smith, I have a transformation fetish It all started... There is nothing illegal about my fetish, Its not kiddie porn. It doesn't even involve actual people.
I control my fetish, my fetish does not control me I am not obsessive, I have other interests. If some one "found out" my interest in my preferred transformation genre I would tell them openly and honestly about my interest where I think they stem from. I wouldn't be embarrassed. I'd use references that they could relate to. Keep the conversation professional not get geeky.
"I enjoy watching Star Trek and have met many of the cast members who have made appearances locally." not "'m going to the trekkie convention to meet captain kirk."
Gotta run can "talk more about this latter if you like.