Working with Claude Lenoir

Dear patrons and other followers, I want to apologize for the long hiatus in my updating. Unfortunately, my computer has crashed in such a way that the screen couldn't 

find the computer anymore, and I so I didn't have any access to my archives, my programs and everything else. In short: I couldn't do anything anymore. At one point I thought: well, I can't work in photoshop, but I can still do black and white ink drawings, untill it hit me that would be useless also, because I wouldn't have a way to scan them in and get them to the public. I have to admit, I have felt rather devestated for the last few days, also kicking myself in the head for not having a decent back up for almost fifty years of work! Or, so I thought. 

As luck would have it, after I had bought a new computer, I found a large part of my archives back on a external hard disk! I couldn't believe my luck; I had completely forgotten about those folders. But it is because of these that I can finally update again, and so: here goes (and thank you for your patience!)

Although I have mainly been working on my own for most of the time, I have been involved in a few collaborations. One of the most fun was that with Claude Lenoir, in the nineties. He was a writer of long bondage stories, with keywords like intricate bondage, rubber, shaven heads, rain coats, and more. 

The way we worked was as follows. I mentioned already that his stories were quite long, actually each story was a complete book, which would have about ten of my drawings to illustrate certain scenes. Now, as it would take way to long for e to read the whole story through, Claude gave me descriptions of what he would like to see.

And those descriptions were, well, let us say... ambitious! I think we did about seven books or so, and the work I made for those is the most complicated I have ever done, rivaled only perhaps by the pieces for the Luna stories, on which I'm still currently working (an other collaboration in much the same way, by the way).

Sometimes Claude would get so enthousiastic in his descriptions, that I had to write him back, informing him that the woman in question would have to have three arms and two heads in order to get all his ideas in there. And he would tell me to shut up, and do the damned drawing already. Fun times! But I will say that his ideas, and the world he created in his stories has driven me to do some of my best black and white work, in my humble opinion. I'm curious what you think: here are some examples.