Literotica Illustrations - Need Pre-Launch Submissions & Testing!

hmmmm...

It is interesting, we have editors for the written material on LIT.

There is no vetting or filtering for the visuals, save for blatant policy violations.

I think that as a society we tend to be "forgiving" to some extent of visual "art", because we, as "beholders", think "I can't even draw stick figures"...or are snowed into believing that, because we don't "get it", it is over our heads or deep.*:rolleyes:
*The flip side is; I think that many "beholders" are ignorant about what is quality art.


Literotica Illustrations still needs some work. Perhaps, if the voting becomes functional, the works will become "sorted", at least by public opinion.
 
Waiting...wondering

So, when/what will be the next step?

Still in "beta"

Scores are still showing x.xx

Categories and search functions would be helpful.

By subject?

Nudes, male
Nudes, female
Nudes, couples

Fantasy/sci-fi sex

Couples sex: M-F, M-M, F-F
Group sex
solo sex (masturbation): M, F

BDSM (could be a sub category of couples sex?...LOL)

Voyeurism/Exhibitionism



.....?

By medium:

Pencil/charcoal
colored pencil/pastels
pen and ink
painting: oil/acrylic
painting: watercolor
photography
digital rendering
digital manipulation of photographs (what ever):mad:
3D digital rendering
sculpture
airbrush (does anyone do that still?)
.....?

By technique (less important, to me):
realism
abstract
primitive
 
Hello Literotica Artists -

I know that it's been a while since we've updated you on the long-promised Literotica Illustrations feature. Sorry! There have been lots of upgrades going on behind the scenes to make Literotica faster & more stable for the future. Some of those upgrades had to be done before we could roll out Illustrations. Finally, though, we have reached a point where we think we're ready to launch the Illustrations section.

So, we need your help! :heart:

Launching Literotica Illustrations without any illustrations might be a little strange for readers/viewers. So, we are looking for anyone who is interested in making some pre-launch submissions.

Even though it's not officially launched, you can check out the Illustrations sections on the site by going to this link:
http://www.literotica.com/i/

There are currently two categories:
- Adult Comics
- Erotic Art

We were thinking of two simple categories for launch - one that is for single image submissions (Erotic Art) and one for multiple-image submissions (Adult Comics). That said, we are open to suggestions for improving those ideas.

There are a few submissions in each category now, but most of them are just test submissions. There is one real submission from THROBBS, but it was submitted a while back - before a lot of things were fixed and improved.

If you are interested in making real submissions that will (eventually) be seen by real users, please let me know in this thread. Anyone who is interested will be given access to the Illustrations submissions section. You can then take a look at it and make sure it works for you, offer suggestions, etc.

This will be a learning and growing process for all of us, so please have some patience. We don't expect the Illustrations section to be a hit overnight, but with 1,000,000+ people reading stories on Literotica everyday (and the number of visitors continues to grow), we strongly believe that this new part of the site has the potential to find a huge audience in the coming years!

Thank you for all of your help and suggestions with the development of Literotica Illustrations over the last months (or has it been years?) and let's get this launched! :D
I'd be interested in submission.
 
Searching is difficult and the voting/scoring is not yet working, yet there is an "Erotic Art Hall of Fame"... based on...?
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Some check boxes to add and categories...? (not to be considered complete)

Male
Female
M-F
M-M
F-F
M-F-M
F-M-F
Group (3 or more in any other combination)

Fantasy
sci-fi
Fan-fic-pic (celebrity; human or cartoon)

Medium:
Pencil
Pen
Pastel
Painting; watercolor, acrylic, oil
Digital drawing/painting
Digital Wire-frame (e.g. Poser)
sculpture: cast metal, clay, stone, wood

Technique:
Tight, loose, impressionistic, crude, artsy fartsy, classical, cartoon, manga/anime, photo-realism, surreal

other tags:
romance, rough, Bondage, period piece (no, not menstration:rolleyes:), voyeurism, exhibitionism.......
 
Who judges?

I have had several pictures rejected for posting in the Literotica Erotic Arts because they do not accept "photographs or photo-manipulations". These include the ones shown below.

I appreciate that you do not want photographs which may be a copyright infringement or someone Photoshopping Sara Palin's head on a horse, but digital art tools and painting programs are how many people do graphics and illustrations these days. I prefer pastels to almost any other medium but I find myself doing much more with painting programs like ArtRage, Mischief, ZBrush, ect. and of course, Photoshop. Many times I start with a photograph--shock!---what painter doesn't?

So is there really a difference between painting from a photograph on a canvas and painting from a photograph on a computer? I am not sure how the later constitutes "photo-manipulation" and think there has to be some judgement applied by the reviewers.



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Some check boxes to add and categories...? (not to be considered complete)

Male
Female
M-F
M-M
F-F
M-F-M
F-M-F
Group (3 or more in any other combination)

Fantasy
sci-fi
Fan-fic-pic (celebrity; human or cartoon)

Medium:
Pencil
Pen
Pastel
Painting; watercolor, acrylic, oil
Digital drawing/painting
Digital Wire-frame (e.g. Poser)
sculpture: cast metal, clay, stone, wood

Technique:
Tight, loose, impressionistic, crude, artsy fartsy, classical, cartoon, manga/anime, photo-realism, surreal

other tags:
romance, rough, Bondage, period piece (no, not menstration:rolleyes:), voyeurism, exhibitionism.......
 
I have had several pictures rejected for posting in the Literotica Erotic Arts because they do not accept "photographs or photo-manipulations". These include the ones shown below.

I appreciate that you do not want photographs which may be a copyright infringement or someone Photoshopping Sara Palin's head on a horse, but digital art tools and painting programs are how many people do graphics and illustrations these days. I prefer pastels to almost any other medium but I find myself doing much more with painting programs like ArtRage, Mischief, ZBrush, ect. and of course, Photoshop. Many times I start with a photograph--shock!---what painter doesn't?

So is there really a difference between painting from a photograph on a canvas and painting from a photograph on a computer? I am not sure how the later constitutes "photo-manipulation" and think there has to be some judgement applied by the reviewers.



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It is not my choice/decision.
I am "ok" with them, if there is a category for such, and not trying to pass off applying filters to a photograph as creative work (which has been done here in "The Visual Artists Corner"). Gets tricky to distinguish, of course.

Personally, I do not care for "painting from a photograph" in any medium. We have photographs, if we want something that "looks just like a photograph". Many people use photos as reference. By which I mean; some inspiration, or detail, but not to reproduce the entire composition and lighting.

That may be partially why LIT chose to put a limit, draw the line (if you will) there (photos and photo manipulations). maybe.

"what painter doesn't?", you ask. I generally do not.

As for "Who Judges"? I expect that it is the administrators; specifically> Laurel. and you can always send your reference along with the finished pieces via a PM, and she might reconsider?
 
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It is not my choice/decision.
I am "ok" with them, if there is a category for such, and not trying to pass off applying filters to a photograph as creative work (which has been done here in "The Visual Artists Corner"). Gets tricky to distinguish, of course.

Personally, I do not care for "painting from a photograph" in any medium. We have photographs, if we want something that "looks just like a photograph". Many people use photos as reference. By which I mean; some inspiration, or detail, but not to reproduce the entire composition and lighting.

That may be partially why LIT chose to put a limit, draw the line (if you will) there (photos and photo manipulations). maybe.

"what painter doesn't?", you ask. I generally do not.

As for "Who Judges"? I expect that it is the administrators; specifically> Laurel. and you can always send your reference along with the finished pieces via a PM, and she might reconsider?

Thanks for the reply, I was not suggesting that it is anyone's fault so much as a problem in defining a creative category. In this thread you suggested "Digital drawing/painting" as a category. I agree that should be a category but here are two examples of digital paintings that were rejected. So I am trying to understand the boundary between a digital painting and a photo-manipulation.

I agree, reproducing a photo in a painting lacks creativity, although it may show a great deal of skill and mastery of technique by the artist. But I wouldn't think would be a photo-manipulation either. Anyway, thanks for your advice and I will be interested in seeing what happens next to Literotica Illustrations.
 
Thanks for the reply, I was not suggesting that it is anyone's fault so much as a problem in defining a creative category. In this thread you suggested "Digital drawing/painting" as a category. I agree that should be a category but here are two examples of digital paintings that were rejected. So I am trying to understand the boundary between a digital painting and a photo-manipulation.

I agree, reproducing a photo in a painting lacks creativity, although it may show a great deal of skill and mastery of technique by the artist. But I wouldn't think would be a photo-manipulation either. Anyway, thanks for your advice and I will be interested in seeing what happens next to Literotica Illustrations.

Because it has become so difficult to distinguish, it may be best (easiest) to just draw the line: no photos, manipulated or not.
The programs have become so sophisticated that someone with no skill or mastery can apply "artistic" filters to a photo and produce something which might look painted, or drawn. Some take it a bit further and will then digitally paint into that result, which can further the illusion.

Whenever I can, I try to use my own photos, if I need them. Or be transparent about the process and resources used.

Back when I was kid....(*old man voice*)... reproducing photos was the height of: "Wow! You're an artist!" :). It was a good learning tool— learning shading, proportions, two dimensional space, composition. Just like copying another work was a learning tool, but should not be the end all. Rendering in paint (pencil, pastel, pixels) something that is three dimensional, in front of you— that shows a greater skill and mastery. THEN to be able to conjure something from your mind, based on all your studies and practice— THAT IS REALLY SOMETHING.
 
It seems that the voting (1-5) system is starting to be implemented:

http://www.literotica.com/top/Erotic-Art-55

One recent image appears to have one vote of 5. :D

Of course, any votes prior, do not seem to be counted, but I suppose that is just part of the beta process.

It is still challenging to browse. Browsing by title makes little sense, unless you know the title you are looking for.

I am sure that, like story votes, they will not be tallied instantaneously. The stars, still have verbiage related to written works. e.g. 4 "I liked it! — keep writing"
 
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It seems that the voting (1-5) system is starting to be implemented

What's funny is my images have 16k and 20k views, yet my stories and poem, combined, come to about 10k views.
It's funny because my pictures are related to my stories.

Someone commented saying that if I had put the images into my stories, people would not have liked reading my stories as much because people are not visually inclined here at ... Lit (Did I say dA? Nooo I didn't say that!). That's pretty funny (or ironic) considering my views. I guess it also says I draw better than I write.

BTW, all I can say is "About time!" :D
 
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it's easier/quicker to view the images.

I can write a passable story. I can draw a passable image. It is yet another skill to combine the two such that they enhance each other.
 
Rating/scoring still need quite a bit of work.
The top rated image shows one vote and a 5.0 score.
when one views from "All Time". it is an imaged posted 04/19/14
The #2 spot has no score or votes shown 11/03/13
I am not sure what criteria are currently ranking all the rest...?
# of views? Favorites? comments? a weighted combination?

It is not by date.
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I voted on the first two and nothing changed. How did the vote for 5.0 come up? Something is still wonky.
 
I voted on the first two and nothing changed. How did the vote for 5.0 come up? Something is still wonky.
You voted on which "first two"?



No idea.

I voted, and favorited various images from the get go. Then after seeing this, tried again (when I posted the screen shots), no change.

The 4th,5th,6th and 7th "ranked" images better NOT be accurately ranked — they are "Word cloud" images, which one can generate with an app. and show no creativity, talent and very little visual interest.

The beta testing, I think, is way down on the priority list.

A while back there were thumbnails, which was nice for browsing. Perhaps those will be back? Naturally, more images, has its own issues: programming and memory.
 
You voted on which "first two"?

Well, I voted on "Study in nude" which I gave a 5, then realized that was silly to test to see if the voting worked or not (since it already is a 5), so then I voted on "naughty fairy" but since no score showed, I presumed none of the scoring worked.

I rather imagine that thumb nails would cause more lag. Anything graphic usually causes more lag, multiple graphic images would likewise and multiple graphic moving pictures would cause even more lag still.
So, personally, I doubt they will be back.
 
Well, I voted on "Study in nude" which I gave a 5, then realized that was silly to test to see if the voting worked or not (since it already is a 5), so then I voted on "naughty fairy" but since no score showed, I presumed none of the scoring worked.

I rather imagine that thumb nails would cause more lag. Anything graphic usually causes more lag, multiple graphic images would likewise and multiple graphic moving pictures would cause even more lag still.
So, personally, I doubt they will be back.

yep. I agree.


If they cannot (for practical reasons) have thumbnails, I'd sure like some library science applied — key words, and categories. Though there are those who feel (in the story sections) that is "hand holding" or "baby sitting". Me? I think it is helpful, like the signs (sometimes) in supermarkets.

There are already quite a few images, and some, I'd just as soon skip.
 
There are already quite a few images, and some, I'd just as soon skip.

Agreed. Personally, and this is ironic considering my artwork, I'm not really for digital work. I don't consider it "art" to use a program that does all the work for you. Not saying it doesn't require a skill set to handle the program, but that isn't the same to me. Unless you do something "freehand," it just doesn't seem very artistic.
 
Investigating.

Interesting, the things an adult might pick up. Not sure they're always true, till you really look into them for yourself, actually investigate, or have first-hand rather than second-hand experience.

What I read somewhere had to do with the claim, if you're interested, that black guys — big, muscular, built like brick shit-houses, black guys — were not only wearing bikinis under their tight pants. They were wearing pink panties.

WTF, right? Hard to accept — even harder to escape the mental, gay-porn image. Real big, long and thick — bulging dicks, lying across their groins, pushing at the waist-bands, tip of the foreskin maybe appearing, above girlish pink panties, the kind you associate maybe with gays? Damn.

So it was the sort of thing you'd check snopes.com to see if it had been just a gay turn-on. Sure, there was another way. Later for that. Research via the Internet, first, and I don't mean Google videos, staged or photoshopped as those might well be. Sure — basic racist appeal to the stereotypical big back cock, right? Coming from — maybe — fantasies allegedly coming from experienced people, mostly women, who claimed — maybe — to have seen them when the trousers came down. H'mm. Hard for even a straight guy to escape just, you know, quick checking the packages, swift look for panty-line maybe line crossing round ass-muscles. Well? See anything? Your own cock — admit it — feeling the first stirring. What if...!

So eventually, you have to take the next step. Glory-hole in an adult bookstore, next to a cubicle that a big black guy has just entered. Stoop down, look thro, see what you can see in the light of the movie screen, see if you can see what's showing in the movie. Listen for the zipper, watch what's appearing: bulging, thick, half-drooping, long. Velvety, purplish-black and pink around the mushroom head. Yeah... Pink panties visible? Or just a cock turning in your direction, presented through the glory-hole so it's time maybe to answer the actual call, open your lips, suck in what you can manage. And get your fingers down the shaft to the tight curls, see if you can feel or see what the big guy is wearing. Bikinis? Boxers? Secondary to what you're actually gobbling, letting it get deeper and deeper, deep-throating you with the thick, long, hot shaft throbbing in your mouth, getting down past your old gag reflex, so you get it right in the throat, give it room, feel it twitch, twitch, and then, yes, gush that wel-known warm and thick fluid and you hold on as it comes and comes till the big cock begins to sag and shrink, withdrawing with a slurp-pop from your rounded lips. Oh-kay...

No chance of the big black guy doing turnabout as fair play. Macho man, pure top. You're a bottom, at least for now, white boy queer sucking a big fat black cock. The way of the world, as is, right? And yes, one swallow doesn't make a truth. Anecdotal. You're maybe gonna go glory-hole hunting in the 'hood, or up next to the truck-stop on the Interstate, hoping you'll get enough chances to find out from direct experience — if there's anything to the rumor beyond fantasy. You're gonna let it go, masturbate in your own pink bikinis over the video-image in your head? Safest thing, obviously. Not just possible violence — disease, obviously. But who's gonna settle for their cock, condom-wrapped cock, getting sucked off right? Not your basic muscular black top, who's got a macho self-image to protect, the furthest thing from coming out to personal gayness! No way that guy is sucking you off, turnabout maybe being fair play, but it's just not gonna happen. Married guy in sexless marriage, sure. He's usually so desperate for cock-sucking, fucking of any kind, he'll take it in the mouth and even up the ass if necessary to get laid somehow, and he'll come, gasping, no matter which way he gets off or gets you off as part of your deal. As I've personally found to be true. So of course, like any good investigator, you need to gather some more data on who's wearing the pink panties — cotton or whatever, satiny, spandex could be. interesting, Am I right?

Next muscular black guy who nodded towards the cubicles, I went right into his, and got on my knees for him, unzipping his package to check what we had here. Trousers down, he was wearing bikinis, alright. And bingo, guess what? In the available light — they were indeed pink.! So I wrapped my fingers around the base of his thick cock, cupped his balls .with my other hand — cotton undies, not silky — and we proceeded with what he got me in there for. Five minutes of taking as much as possible — damn, he lived up to the stereotype! — and he unloaded a gusher down my throat. I choked it down, gasping, pulled his panties back in place, tight, patted them farewell — might not get them again, right? — zipped him up, and got to my feet.
 
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