I heard you like Kaa...

Stop me if you heard this one before... So I was browsing around Deviant Art just looking up Kaa based art and I came across a specific artist. What made this artist stand out to me was the fact that the Kaa piece that I encountered featured Kaa and Noel Vermillion from Blazblue. You might not know this about me but Blazblue is my all time favorite game and it's fairly niche so not many people know of it.

Seeing someone combine Kaa the snake with Blazblue had me thinking "Wow this person is awesome!" And so I just had to contact them and let them know about how I can totally respect them going down the Blazblue path for choosing victims for Kaa... and to my surprise this artist had actually heard of me before! I didn't really think I'd have any kind of popularity or anything but I suppose showing up every now and then did make me somewhat noticeable.

Yet another friend was gained and we hit it off talking about hypnosis and Kaa related stuff. Actually if some of you were around the hypnosis image scene back in 2012 you might remember hypnochan which was a 4chan type forum site for hypnosis posts. I frequented there before it shut down and also this artist seemed to know me from there too. Eventually the topic of drawing me came up and he was happy to do so!

There isn't anything elaborate to the story but I do have to say that unlike the previous artists I cannot credit this artist. If I recall correctly he wanted to distance himself from the hypnosis art scene at one point. He made a different account and everything. Though I think these days he's more ok with I don't really want to risk it since it's been a decent bit since he and I last chatted. 

Art by: Anonymous

Requested by: Erika 

Kaa x Erika -To Be Continued ver.-

So... Remember how in my previous post I expressed my unjustified disdain of the previous picture done by NeoAkatsuki? Well being the great guy that he was he actually offered to do another picture for me since I wasn't quite satisfied with the previous one. I'm not really one to turn down something like that but honestly it was here where I really felt like I might've been taking advantage of him and I didn't like that feeling.

After thinking about it more I did say that he didn't have to do it anymore but supposedly he was happy to do another one and he even sent me this sketch of what was to come. I was actually extremely happy to see this preview. Even today I think this kind of composition is very rare to see in a Kaa picture and I'm definitely a big fan of the angle!

Unfortunately though this story doesn't quite have a happy ending. Shortly after sending me this preview NeoAkatsuki disappeared. He stopped signing onto MSN messenger which was our preferred method of contact. (Which goes to show how long ago this was.) And soon his Deviant Art account closed. It was definitely depressing to see him go and also to see this picture unfinished. I sincerely hope I wasn't the reason he disappeared but we never left on bad terms and he seemed excited to finish this piece. I just wish whatever the reason he left wasn't actually a bad reason.

I waited a long time to see if he would ever come back but it wasn't meant to be. Even now in the year of 2020 I haven't seen him around and this picture remains unfinished... However while the picture never did finish by NeoAkatsuki eventually I did commission a different artist to finish the picture. I couldn't let such a great idea go to waste! That's a post for another time though.

Art by: NeoAkatsuki

Kaa x Erika. -The sequel-

Ah yes here we are at the awaited sequel! Now with 100% more nudity. You could say this is a sequel of the previous picture by NeoAkatsuki which was the very first Erika hypnosis picture on the internet. As for how this picture came to be... Well actually there isn't quite as much as a fancy story to this one.

After I had joined Deviant Art to personally thank NeoAkatsuki for the very first drawing he and I became friends. We ended up chatting a decent bit and the prospect of a second drawing came up. Of course I was jumping at the chance to get another amazing piece from NeoAkatsuki. My friend Lompich even agreed to color it before it was finished. For those of you who might not know since NeoAkatsuki is no longer around, he always did his drawings in black and white so finding a colored piece of his required a third party to agree to do it.

Though once again I'm not too original when it comes to ideas and so when the subject of "What do you want in the picture?" came up I didn't really have an answer. So I just rolled with the usual: "Let's do me with Kaa!" And so this picture came to be. You can see the blue towel from the previous picture and so you could say this picture was a sequel to the original one.

Admittedly though I have a bit of a confession to make with this one however. It's a bit shameful to admit now, but back when this piece came out I was unsatisfied with it. I know now that I should be happy with whatever gift I was given and that's definitely true today! ... However 2012 Erika was quite apparent with her slight discontent with this picture.

Looking back on it now the picture definitely isn't bad and I can get down with the elaborate figure-eight coiling on the breasts! Speaking of breasts as I joked about it earlier this is the first Erika picture to feature any kind of bare nudity in it! And I'm happy to see that he fixed the issue with the lack of highlights from the first picture as well. I definitely regret not being as thankful as I should've been. This is a solid picture~

Art by: NeoAkatsuki

Colored by: Lompich

Requested by: Erika 

"Definitely Not Kaa".

Once again continuing my adventures of looking at hypnosis based artists I came across Danimarion! ... Is what I'd like to say. Actually I came across Danimarion not because he was a hypnosis artist. Far from it in fact! I found Danimarion on Deviant Art just from browsing snake related fetish art. Yup just snake fetish art. No hypnosis involved.

Through Deviant Art's recommendation system it's pretty easy to go from "Kaa art" to just snake fetish art. Not that I minded of course but I am a fan of snake hypnosis specifically! Anyways after coming across his profile I was very interested in his art style and coincidentally he happened to be taking requests at the time! Lucky me!

So of course I jumped at the chance and immediately asked for a snake hypnosis picture but actually he was hesitant on it. Danimarion explained that he actually didn't like Kaa and found his design to be too cartoony. That also goes for the hypnosis aspect as well. He was a bit on the fence about that. Though not to be deterred, we came to an agreement.

Instead of going with a traditional Kaa picture, we decided to settle on a non-Kaa looking snake and instead of going with a color ring based eye hypnosis induction we went with a dazed look. This was a compromise we were both happy with since for me while I'm a fan of Kaa I like what he stands for not necessarily Kaa himself. I just love hypnosis and snakes! As for Danimarion he got to draw a not cartoony looking snake which is what he felt more comfortable doing.

Also unlike the previous entries on this list Danimarion is still going in strong and drawing art to this day! Actually funnily enough it was after this picture he started drawing more hypnosis based art and eventually opening up to draw Kaa and Kaa flavored eyes. I don't know if this request was kind of what helped him ease into it but it'd be cool if it did!

  

Art by: Danimarion

Requested by: Erika

The contest winner.

This picture (and future pictures from this artist) were actually acquired in a very different way. During this time period I couldn't make commissions due to personal reasons so I could only rely on requests. My appetite for hypnosis pictures of myself was growing and I knew asking random strangers to draw me probably isn't the best thing to do. 

Coincidentally around this time however I came across HypnoGoat666's profile. As you might be able to guess from the name I came across his profile mainly because he was a hypnosis artist and I followed him on Deviant Art. However soon after doing so I saw a journal post from him explaining he was hosting a "kiriban" which apparently is what some people do as a contest of some sort. Essentially the person to be the X viewer of his profile and screenshots it will get a free request.

Taking the opportunity I decided to do my best to refresh his page until I could grab the screenshot. Hey! A girl's gotta do what she can do to get that juicy hypnosis art right? Luckily I did manage to grab the screenshot and won the contest! Though I actually didn't have an idea of what I wanted in mind. You'll be seeing that a lot in this blog. I just suck with ideas.

So in the end I just went with "Can you draw me hypnotized?" and the rest is history! There isn't much to this picture in terms of what's going on because hey he took my vague statement literally. Though that's entirely my fault for not having an actual idea. Regardless I was very happy with the picture even if he got the eye color wrong!

You'll be seeing more of this artist soon but much like the earlier artists mentioned in this blog HypnoGoat666 eventually disappeared as well unfortunately. These pictures were from a very different time in the world of early 2012 after all. It's a shame to see these artists go of course. Though part of me thinks he's actually still around under a different name since he tended to delete his account and make new ones with a different name a lot. If you're out there let me know! I'll be sure to credit you properly.

Art by: HypnoGoat666

Requested by: Erika