It Pays to Tune In.

 

 I have returned with another weekly update for the blog! In this entry we have a picture by mixx54 featuring myself being impaled by a dildo type thing, while hypnotized! At least I think so. See, I actually had no creative control whatsoever when it came to this picture. It's also been quite awhile so forgive me if my explanation comes off a bit shoddy!

So, at this point in my hypnosis based art career I had made some artist friends along the way. Specifically, I made friends with Penken as I mentioned earlier in this blog. Through him and his Skype hypno-artist group I met some other people like Medri (who we will be discussing on here very soon) and with all these new artists to follow, I started tuning into art streams whenever I had the free time. Although it was rough on my old computer because just watching a stream made it scream out in agony...

So here's the part where things get a little hazy. I'm not exactly sure I remember which stream I was watching at the time. It was either Penken's or Medri's which is why I even brought Medri up in the first place. One of those two were streaming, and they happened to do a multi stream with mixx54. I'm not sure how they met him, or why he was there since as I recall he wasn't really a hypnosis artist. But I was there watching the stream and since I wasn't doing anything at that moment, I was able to tune into both streams. Running two streams on my old computer was like suicide if I tried to do anything else on top of that. But again, since I wasn't doing anything else I was able to squeeze both streams in as long as they both had all my attention.

To get to the point here though, while watching the stream of this artist who was unknown to me at the time... I do remember that after he was finished drawing what he wanted to do on stream, he asked in chat if anyone had a request. The chat wasn't too active at this time due to it being somewhat late if I recall. So as a joke I just said "draw me!" and linked my Hypnohub tag. I didn't even really specify the "request" to be a hypnosis based drawing, since like I said earlier he was an unknown artist to me, and his one streamed drawing was not a hypnosis based one.

Still nonetheless, he agreed and drew me. Maybe because I linked him to a hypnosis based website, or perhaps because he knew Penken/Medri (still don't remember which one it was) and that they are hypnosis artists, he decided on tacking on the bit of hypnosis to this picture. Which might explain the interesting style of eyes he went for this picture. Having the regular blue pupils with just green sclera on both eyes, with a hint of a hypnotic ring in them is definitely a unique take. From my experience, asking a non-hypnosis artist to draw something like Kaa eyes on their first attempt can lead to some interesting results. This being one of them! Still as a free gift and something I just asked for on a whim I'd say it's still great!

Art by: mixx54

Requested by: Erika

Thank You!

Hey all! So you know how at the end of each blog post I credit the artist and requester/commissioner? Crediting the artist, of course goes without saying. However why credit the requester/commissioner? All of them so far have been either no one, because it was a gift from the artist to me, or it was something I personally asked for. Well for those of you asking that really weird and random question I just came up with to pad the length of this blog post, it's pictures like these that make me do it!

You see, sometimes there are some incredibly kind people out there who request or commission a piece of art featuring me, without me really knowing intended as a gift! And I always have to give credit where credit is due! And this picture marks the first time someone did so! Specifically this picture was commissioned by my friend Erogmircs and the piece itself is by geekgirl8. Erogmircs being my friend who pays for most of commissions through Paypal, and I pay him back in person. While geekgirl8 being a fantastic hypnosis artist, most known for her lovely OC Kenny the Naga.

For almost all my blog posts, I've gone through as much history and lore as I could remember. Telling you all how each piece came to be, and any other thoughts around them. However for pictures that were gifted to me... Well I can't really talk exactly about how they came to be, since I wasn't really part of the development process. So for these pictures I'll speak as best as I can about what I know, and then also talk about my opinions of the picture.

So for this picture... Well I had already mentioned to my friend Erogmircs about my newly acquired goal of reaching 100 tagged pictures on Hypno Hub. He is a good friend of mine whom I've known since long before my days on the internet. I don't really know what he initially thought of said goal, but I suppose he was interested in helping me! See around this time, I think geekgirl8 was running emergency $20 head shot commissions to help out a friend. Erogmircs ended up taking notice of that and decided to commission a picture of me to not only help out me goal, but to help out geekgirl8 whom he is a fan of.

As for my thoughts? Well I like this picture a lot! To this date, this is the only picture of myself drawn by geekgirl8 and even though it's almost seven years old at this point, you can definitely see her unique style she brings. One of the most important things to me in a hypnosis is picture are the eyes/expression. And I'd say this picture nails both! We got the classic Kaa eyes, paired with a kind of lazy eyed look with a wobbly smile, as if to show that I'm really zonked out of it and just kind of going along with whatever the hypnotist is saying. The bare shoulders also imply nudity which is of course, always ok in books!

Art by: geekgirl8

Commissioned by: Erogmircs

Inspiration.

This is a pretty interesting picture in terms of lore. To start off with, this picture was made by an artist known as Etlabsotwe. Though some of you who have been around for awhile might know this artist by a different name, they decided to rename themselves for hypnosis based drawings, and I will respect that here. Either way though, I first met Etlabsotwe by messaging him on Deviant Art asking for a request. I managed to find out about them through Hypno Hub however, as he was a budding artist just recently posting a bunch of new pictures that caught my fancy.

Now some of you might notice but, this is actually the first Erika picture on here that features my "default" outfit. That's because Etlabsotwe is a mostly vanilla based artist. Though he has been known to draw some nudity in recent times, he mostly prefers pictures with hypnosis as the focus more so than the porn. And that's also something I can totally agree on from time to time! So after discussing a request featuring the classic "Just draw Erika hypnotized" I had to also come up with an outfit to wear.

That was something that never really occurred to me before in all of my previous requests and commissions. I've never specifically asked or looked for a kind of outfit. So what I ended up deciding on was... Well naturally the outfit I was wearing at the time. Which consisted of skinny jeans, socks, and a skull t-shirt with a broken heart. The black hoodie is something I added on despite not wearing it, as I always wear a hoodie when I go out. No exceptions.

So with that, the default outfit for me to wear in hypnosis pictures was decided! As for the picture itself, well as I said, I didn't quite have an idea in mind as per usual and so we have Erika kneeling while being hypnotized by a pendulum! It's simple but effective. I've always been a fan of Etlabsotwe's art style and even then back when he was a new artist, I'd still say it looks very cute. Incidentally however, He did end up getting the eye color wrong. We've gone back to the green eyed Erika style! Though it was at this point however, that I stopped using photos of myself as references. There were enough drawings of me out there already that I could get away with just using a previously drawn one as a reference. So perhaps that's where the mistaken eye color came from.

Though one important thing came from this meeting, and it wasn't this picture. After becoming friends with Etlabsotwe, we had an extended discussion about random things on Deviant Art. Stuff about our lives, future goals, etc. In particular though, he did ask me if I had any immediate goals I wanted to accomplish. My answer to that was no. I didn't really have anything I wanted to do. He said it's good to have something to work towards, even if it might be something trivial. Help keep yourself motivated you know? And eventually it was through that conversation that inspired me to create a random goal. That goal being: Reach 100 tagged pictures of myself on Hypno Hub.

Yes that's right. For those of you who've seen me around a lot back in 2014/2015 it was because I was randomly inspired to meet a completely arbitrary goal of 100 self tagged pictures. It just kinda hit me as something random to work towards. So from here on I started commissioning a lot more pieces of myself, which eventually got me noticed by people. Either recognizing "Hey it's that blonde and black haired girl being hypnotized again!" or people actively realizing and supporting me on that goal. This interaction with Etlabsotwe is what started it all, and for that I will always be thankful. I met some awesome friends along the way, whom I'll never forget for the rest of my life.

Art by: Etlabsotwe

Requested by: Erika

Something Different Perhaps...?

Now now, I know what you're thinking! Based on the title you might be thinking "Wait, there's nothing different here! It's just Erika with Kaa again right?" Well yes that is absolutely true! However this picture was something I was very heavily contemplating uploading to the blog, and will set a precedent for what other images may show up here. This blog is indeed called "Erika's House of Hypno" but more than anything, I created this blog to host ALL Erika based pictures that I could find. All in one convenient place. So the reason why this picture is different is because... Well there actually isn't any hypnosis in this picture.

So yes, despite this picture featuring no hypnosis whatsoever I decided to upload it to this blog. There aren't TOO many non-hypnosis based pictures of myself floating around so it'll definitely be a more rare thing. Even still I feel like this picture should still be showcased none the less! Including future non-hypnosis based ones as well. If that isn't your cup of tea then I apologize in advance!

As for the specifics of this picture, it was done by a Japanese snake peril artist I met on Deviant Art by the name of kaitakuan. I specifically said "snake peril artist" and not hypnosis artist because again, I don't believe he has ever done a hypnosis piece. I just happened across some of his work before and saw that he had requests opened up. So naturally I decided to throw myself into the lot, asking for myself with Kaa. However at the time, this artist was very popular and so his request queue was very long. I don't even remember when I had requested it, but it was probably before the RoC commission.

Eventually though, kaitakuan did get to my picture and here we have the result! I actually never specified in my request to have any kind of hypnosis going on in the picture. I suppose I took it for granted that any time I'd mention "Kaa" naturally hypnosis would come with it. But yes, that was definitely the wrong assumption to make, and so we have a non-hypnosis Erika picture! Besides that I do like how he got the details right about things such as the navel piercing. The boob size is a little too big for my tastes, but overall I'm happy he did eventually follow through on it.

 

Unfortunately the tale of kaitakuan doesn't have a happy ending though. He constantly accepted free requests from anyone who asked, and eventually in 2018 it drove him to give up and leave Deviant Art permanently. Some people can definitely be very pushy with their requests, and it's sad to see someone who only wanted to make people happy end up being shooed away... But still I'm glad I managed to get one in before he vanished. 

 

Art by: kaitakuan

Requested by: Erika