I like erotic writing but not writing about erotic
writing. I'm less interested in the opinions and politics that surround smut
than just wanting to get hard and make women wet.
Having said that I am now going to write just a
little bit about Captain Shame and Red Lion Street, why I do it, why I'm
stopping, what I was trying to achieve etc.
I'm finishing Captain Shame at chapter 50 simply
because it takes up too much time. The drawings have become steadily more
elaborate and I have become quite addicted to the blog. Sometimes I looks up at
the clock and realise that hours have passed whilst I have been delicately
tracing out some sluts stocking tops in photoshop.
A previously unseen private commission (face obscured) |
It's fitting because the very reason I started
Captain Shame was as an antidote to another kind of addiction, my addiction to
porn. I felt that if I was going to spend so much of my time staring at a
computer screen with a massive hard on I might as well be doing something creative. There is that idea that if you cant find the porn you want then you should
make it.
I think Red Lion Street is porn, of a kind. The word
'erotica' doesn't sit well with what I do. I'm not trying to be sensual or
titillate. I want people to wank themselves off reading my words and looking at
my pictures. My intentions are quite base and primal.
The writing in Red Lion Street is influenced by
American crime writing. I love the short sentences that propel the narrative
forward. No time is wasted. 'He went into the Police station. He shot the desk
clerk five times and then left.' I thought that style of writing was better suited to sex more than the flowery Mills and Boon style.
I was trying to make a written alternative to porn.
I was unsure how erotic, drawings could be to people,
but l knew I was tired of the found and stolen photographs I saw in most blogs. Anyone can steal and post a photo and almost everyone does. I feel that by using the drawings it allows me to be
blunt and explicit in the words, where as describing a bukakke next to a found
photograph of a bukakke is somehow just nasty and cheap.
I had an old blog which was very much like this and I've recently taken it down. I soon realised that dirty words and found images weren't unique enough for what I wanted to do.
There was an abortive attempt at a drawn sequel to the original Captain Shame blog that didn't get beyond two posts, My Dirty Filthy Mouth . It was a collaboration with a very sexy Russian woman but ultimately I think she got cold feet about it. I still like the idea though. A combination of sound and image. It paved the way for what followed.
The drawings on Red Lion Street are a mixture of tracing, composting and
free hand. They are made inside the computer using a hardware pen and pad
device. I am Apple all the way. I set myself rules and restrictions and I feel
the limited palet of colours is what makes the pictures work.
I have been told that people do bring themselves
off to my drawings. In fact nearly all the feedback I have had from Red Lion
Street is from women rubbing one out to it.
Unseen outtake from Chapter 25: Doctor Sun which ended up being my favourite chapter in terms of art. |
This has been an unexpected but welcome surprise. I
never thought I was making RLS for one particular sex but there is no doubting
that girls want to talk to me more about it. Further more, women wanted to be in
it. This was an unbelievable privilege and the only regret I have about ending
RLS is that I won't have these beautiful women sending me pictures of
themselves with their legs open anymore.
Writing real people into the stories was a strange
and intimate process, although not always successful. I tried hard to be true
to the women and what they were about, sexually. It also helped me get closer
to my original vision that RLS should be about the 'the girl next door' or 'the
woman you want to fuck on the tube train.'
I think Red Lion Street has always been more
successful when portraying girls who you could imaging meeting, and less
successful when falling into LA Porn star stereotypes. I particularly regret
that one character is based facially on a fairly well known porn actress and
thus breaks the spell of a weird suburban street.
Favourite stories of mine include...
Chapters 13 to 15. A linked trilogy of stories featuring red headed cousins Cate and Theresa. It was the first story where I went too far, Cate is always easy to draw and every time I think I've finished with the character she pops up again.
Chapter 25: Doctor Sun. The story is just so fucking stupid but I also feel I was on the money with these drawings. I think its the hottest set of pictures I've drawn so far.
Chapter 39: Feisty Submissive is perhaps my favourite so far of the collaborations with a real subject/model. People have no idea of how sexual they are, but in describing herself in emails Fesity wrote all of her own dialogue. The last picture might be my single favourite Red Lion Street image.
Red Lion Street was originally meant to be 100
chapters and many planned stories and characters have had to be abandoned and
rejected including ...
Elaine, the landlady of the Red Lion Pub, a large
sexually confidant Domme who holds swingers nights during after hours drinking
sessions.
Lucy, the bespectacled Librarian who dreams of bigger
tits and begs Captain Shame to buy her a boob job in exchange for a blow job in
the biography section.
Denise the wide hipped house wife who exposes herself
in the supermarket and gets Captain Shame to chew through her nylon tights in
the carpark.
Things should end though. Things shouldn't carry on
forever. It's another one of my bugbears of the blogosphere, where everything is
unending and unedited.
A rare private commission. |
I may not have finished with Red Lion Street
completely. After chapter 50 I have couple of ideas for continuations or spin
offs. One idea is occasional specials, or a text only Red Lion Street novella
or a series of very short one picture pieces of micro fiction.
I will certainly keep both my email and Twitter feed
active for while.
And thank you for hanging out with me. Thanks for the
support. Really, so many nice people have gotten in touch. Special thanks
amongst a whole collection of beautiful angels must however go to Harper Elliot,
my earliest, most positive supporter. It would have ended sooner without her encouragement.
Please continue to write to me. Especially if you are
a hot girl who needs to be drawn. There is always a deal that can be made.
At the time of writing I am up to Chapter 44. I will try and make the last six the best so far.
At the time of writing I am up to Chapter 44. I will try and make the last six the best so far.
Over and out,
Captain Shame.
I'm thrilled that you count our first episode together as one of your favourites. I've had the *most* fun collaborating with you, Captain, and in doing so my confidence has skyrocketed - so thank you. And thank you for the many orgasms your work has given me ;) xxxx
ReplyDeleteAnd your self portrait is hot. Even though I can't see your face.
ReplyDeleteI am proud and honored to have been a part of this sexy, slutty, beautifully dirty street. Thank you, Captain. I will always remember this.
ReplyDeleteI do love the self portrait...so nice to see you. I know whatever you move on to, it will be great.
From my point of view, 50 went by too fast. Always a pleasure to find the next installment available after waiting what seems to be an interminable amount of days for it to show.
ReplyDeleteI trust you will go out with a bang heard from one end of Red Lion St. to the other as you finally nail Valerie to the floor repeatedly in hole after hole after hole, while her husband watches and possibly films it.
Too bad the story will take longer to play out than your signature song from your last blog. No way is that long enough to cover this impending story.
But it all is just an assumption on my part.
Your blog - do what you will.
And leave a forwarding address.
I'm relatively new to this blog, and just wanted to say that I am enjoying working, (sorry, I mean wanking don't I?) my way through the chapters.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear it's ending, but agree with the whole all good things principle.
Very. Hot.
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