--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_y..., "D. Smith" <Styx6000_at_a...> wrote:
> I am curious about you and Des if ya dont wish to answer, just say
> so, but anyway... She and you met in high school, did yall become
>boy
> and girlfriend and have been that way since or did ya date others
> keeping in touch, then recently dating again?
Well, we were basically just friends in high school. We'd go out
to see a movie or grab something to eat or maybe hang out somewhere,
but it was generally a platonic relationship at that time. I don't
know if she was dating anyone in high school at the same time. She
graduated in 1990, and I graduated in the middle of the next year. I
spent all my time drawing in class (when I wasn't skipping school,
which was almost a weekly event). I _should've_ graduated in 1990,
though. She also graduated at a younger age because she got her shit
together and was bumped up a grade in middle school or something.
We kept in touch while she was at college, and the relationship
didn't get "interesting" until a while after she came back.
> Also, not many females
> in this group, you are a lucky guy to find a girl who doesnt mind
the
> work you do, and that even contributes to it. When you first
started
> doing erotic stuff what did Des have to say about it?
I started drawing hardcore furry erotica when I was 12, long before
I met her. I didn't show her any of these pictures (for obvious
reasons) until she came back from college. This was around the time
that I was actually producing the Skunkworks stuff. She didn't
really think anything odd of it (that I know of), and reciprocated by
showing me a picture she had drawn (I think it was the Penelope
picture).
I had shown her some inking techniques in high school, but my
inking kinda sucked back then. I think the Penelope picture was the
first one she inked in her current style.
That might be why some people insist that she and I are one and the
same, y'know. Back in '95, I showed her some of my new inking
techniques, and she liked them. She's been inking in pretty much the
same style ever since, while I have gotten much more detailed over
the years.
>And where did she or you come up with her alter-ego?
I had drawn the lizard version of what would eventually become her
character in 1994. I didn't give the character a name or any
chameleon-like abilities until a year later. I named the chameleon
after her (pseudonym, of course). The inspiration? Des used to like
to mimic different voices in high school, so I thought that the
chameleon, with it's color-changing ability, would make a perfect
visual representation of that. And the rest, as they say, is history!
--JMH
Received on Tue Oct 02 2001 - 23:30:02 CDT