Best Fantasy Drawings

Yeah, right, Mr. Culture.

Here's the first image you posted in this thread. Tell me about "downright pornographic." You're delusional.

BUTT FLOSS. Why do the artists dwell on wedgies as something erotic?

This is the second image you posted, Mr. Downright Pornographic.

I saw one of those once, when we left the lights on.

Did it scare ya?

I dunno. I sort of fainted and came to with the use of smelling salts.


Never again. We bought blackout curtains that weekend.

I don't get the criteria for the Chesley winners. A guy who shows up a lot as a Chesley winner is MAtthew Stewart. I think his work is hardly of "master quality'.

My scolding of your 'porn' was in jest, and clearly marked so. Get yourself a sense of humour, Set.

It's not very clear when you use what I call the 'smirk' emoticon, as it can get mistaken for someone who wants to adopt a superior position.

Many people would react the same way to that post of yours, especially when it alludes to delicate subjects such as porn.

Maybe people should make it more clear when they are apparently attempting a harmless joke.


That particular emoticon is called a wink, as opposed to 'big grin', and 'smile', or even a bracket saying (joking), which would all make it clearer.

Wink implies that the subject of the 'joke' has in fact done something wrong or inappropriate, and that you are letting them know as such, but playing at keeping it a secret.

Easily misinterpreted.

The wink emoticon means just that: wink wink. Aka sarcasm. People should at the very least wonder, when they see it, if the author is serious...

I've had it used on me several times, and on two occasions at least it was definitely used as a mild scolding.

Water off a ducks back when the subject matter isn't potentially a sensitive one, but when it is, you can only blame yourself for not making your intentions quite clear at the time of posting.

A wink can mean many things, including insinuation. Much clearer to actually state that you are joking when circumstances require.

Set is so easily irked that it has become a game of mine to rattle his chain, and ambiguity is part of that game. I can't just tell him: "hey, I'd like to poke fun at you, be warned, here it comes: <joke>". Where's the fun in that?

So you admit to an intention to rile when you made that post.

You have therefore been the instigator of bad feeling, when up until now the thread was seemingly jogging along and quite entertaining.

Don't get the hump then, when people call you out on what you've done.

I find it hypocritical, but what makes it amusing to me is the number of times when i've seen Frank jerk Olivier's chain. Olivier was a big sucker for Frank's game. Maybe we should get him in here, he loves to jerk Olivier around.

As for this thread, we'll be lucky if Romeo doesn't take it over. He has absolutely no sense of proportion, and he lives to post images, relevant or not.

Meanwhile, here are a couple of old timers whose work was of a very high quality:

Arthur Rackham



Maxfield Parrish

The first is from A Midsummer Night's Dream; the Parrish is, i believe, Circe--Parrish provided lush illustrations for Hawthorne's The Tanglewood Tales.

Bad feelings now, really?

I suggest you guys get yourself a sense of humour, or a thicker skin, or a sense of ridicule. 'nough said.

He's trollin' Lordy. I advise ignoring him.

We had some wonderful books when i was a boy. We had Caxton's Mallory, illustrated by Rackham . . .



. . . and A Christmas Carol, also done by Rackham . . .



. . . we had the Tanglewood Tales, by Hawthorne, illustrated by Parrish . . .



. . . Robinson Crusoe illustrated by N. C. Wyeth . . .



. . . and many, many others which i don't recall at the moment.