New Headphones.

Greetings again! We're back this week with not only a new picture, but also the debut of a new artist for this blog. This picture was done by Juuzou or Juu for short, and it features myself being hypnotized by hypnotic headphones given to me by Juu's OC Izayoi. Or maybe they are normal headphones and it's just playing hypnotic audio...? Well regardless, the point still stands!

For this picture, I have only the bare minimum in terms of context and backstory. From my understanding, Juu was working on improving his art skills at the time, and decided to draw me as a fun little sketch. Around this time, my goal of reaching one hundred tags on the Hub was coming along fairly well, and I had gained some notoriety because of it. I suppose that's how Juu managed to learn about me, and assist me in my goal! By the way, for those who may have lost track this picture is around the 70th or so picture uploaded to the Hub. So at this point, we were getting pretty close to said goal!

After thanking Juu personally for this surprise piece, I later ended up becoming friends with him as well. Hence the reason I do feel more comfortable referring to him as "Juu" rather than Juuzou. Though that didn't happen until much later surprisingly. For the time being, this was just a one off interaction of me waking up and checking out the Hub one day, only to be surprised by a random new Erika drawing!

As for the picture itself, it could technically be classified as a comic actually right? It does have three panels, but the top two are very small and even chibi-like. Does that count as a comic? I suppose only the experts would be able to tell me! Either way though, the idea is simple but still executed fairly well. The picture itself is still a sketch, as Juu had initially made this piece to practice. However, I appreciate that he colored the hair and the pink hearts at least! Heart eyes are actually one of my favorite hypnosis based eyes, up there with Kaa eyes, and empty eyes.

Overall, a simple but still very cute piece. Accentuated by not only the straightforward idea, but also the cute art style that Juu brought to the table for this picture! In the future, he would eventually remake this picture. And initially, I was going to include both the original and the remake in this post even if there was about a three or so year time gap... however the "remake" has a slight altercation in the dialogue to imply that it's not just a remake, but also a sequel funnily enough. So I figured that warranted a new post, but we'll get to that one in the much later future!

Art by: Juuzou

Erika's Guide To The Most Commonly Hypno-Inducing, Everyday Nuisances!

We're back this week, this time with quite a doozy of a picture. A single page comic by the one and only: Keeper of Pots! Featuring a comic about me being hypnotized in various ways, by various different household appliances. Note, that not all items seen in this comic are found in the average household. As a bonus, since this one page comic comes with a title, that means I don't have to come up with one myself! It's the small things we have to be thankful for~

So where to begin with on this piece...? To be honest, I couldn't really say where the idea of this picture came from, nor the inspiration for it. What I can say though, is one day Keeper of Pots told me he was working on a secret project of his. I asked him what it was, but he refused to elaborate it to me. All he told me was "it features an OC from the Hub". And I remember at the time it kind of made me a bit sad to hear, as I could've sworn at the time that he said he would be doing an Erika project next. Nonetheless, looking at it after the fact, it's clear to see he worded that in a way to get under my skin... while also still telling the truth. Very clever use words there! So that particular detail has stuck with me after all these years.

Before we continue though, I do have a bit of a creator's note from the author himself:

"I don't recall exactly how this particular idea came to be, but I s'pose it's not a huge leap in logic to come up with an idea like this.

A few fun things however. The 50's hypno gun is a reference to "The Hypno  Gun", a 1952 comic by Carl Barks. It stars Donald and his nephews as he observes them playing with the epnymous toy. They pretend to hypnotize each other but Donald believes it to be real, and takes it away from them. Before he throws it away however, the possibilities of being able to hypnotize people dawns on him and he decides to pay his uncle Scrooge a visit... A very fun story, even if I don't consider it fetish fuel!

Also the panels in which Erika was hypnotized by giant purple tentacles became a prequel for a later comic I did (Erika helped me brainsstorm) called "Daze of Our Wives". It features Erika having a reunion with said tentacle, but that's for another time, I s'pose.

I think this was also the first time I had drawn myself into one of these comics,  going for a bit of a chibi style here. I swear it's not how I met Erika in real life. But she does make for a very cute hypnotized and naked artist's assistant!"

 

So it seems that even the creator isn't sure how this idea came to be. But even so, the idea itself is a timeless classic! The idea of being hypnotized by random household objects is not only funny, but it also shows off how easily hypnotized I am. And as another fun fact, Keeper of Pots also mentioned how two panels in this picture became a prequel a full fledged comic right? We've been discussing a possibility of each of these ideas perhaps spinning off into their own ideas. In fact, a future idea has myself hypnotized and trapped in a snake terrarium, which while technically not related to this one, COULD be interpreted as it was an inspiration. So going off of that, perhaps basing a comic or a standalone picture inspired by these ideas, with this picture itself being kind of like a hub world for those potential comics or pictures would be pretty cool. A HYPNO HUB if you will.

There would be a lot to cover with this picture based on the expressions alone, as there are so many different inductions and expressions here. Usually I'd like to highlight that in my blog entries, but this time with so many of them, I'd rather just go over my favorite one. All of them are really good, but in the end I think I'd default to the Kaa one. Just the happy and blissful look as I press against the glass trying to get in is super cute. As mentioned in the previous paragraph, there is a future snake terrarium picture. And while this picture had nothing to do with that idea, perhaps on some subconscious level I decided that idea based on this snake panel. But more on that whenever we get to that entry.

And finally, as a small little bit of trivia... back on the old Hypno Hub when you had to use existing pictures as avatars, I had the upper left Erika as my avatar for years. Pretty much as soon as this picture was uploaded in 2015, to when the Hub changed it's core systems in 2022. So RIP old Erika profile picture...

Art by: Keeper of Pots

Plunging Off The Deep End.

Welcome back! This week, we have a very simple and straightforward picture. Drawn by Psi, we have myself having my mind drained by a... hypnotic plunger. Yes, quite original indeed! The drawing it self is on the simple side, and to be honest, the story on how this picture came to be is as simple as you could imagine! But that doesn't take away from how funny and cute this image turned out to be.

As I've mentioned before, I've met a lot of friends through the hypno art community. A few friends of whom I still talk to even today! And one of those friends happens to be the artist Psi. Though at the time of this picture, we had only known each other for a little less than a year. And during a random day, Psi ended up messaging me with a pretty unique greeting. Actually, this might be one of the very few times I have an exact excerpt from a conversation when it comes to a hypnosis picture. The conversation was more or less as follows:

Psi: Erikaaaaaaaa
Erika: Psiiiiiiii
Psi: Psi suddenly applies Mind Control Plunger on your forehead!
Erika: hey that's a new one!
Psi: ikr? I should draw it
Erika: did you just make it up on the spot?
Psi: yes
Erika: ohhh now's your chance. while the idea is still fresh!

... And that's more or less the story behind this picture. It was a simple random greeting that ended up being morphed into a full blown sketch by Psi. After that, it was uploaded to the Hub a few days later. 

 

As for the picture itself, again it is on the simple side as it was a quick sketch drawn by Psi. But it's very straightforward and gets the exact point across that we were discussing. Seems like the plunger is the type of hypnotic instrument that leaves it's victim completely mindless! As we can see from my vacant expression with a bit of drool leaking out.

I'd also like to give a quick special shout out to Letterabcd from the Hub, for leaving a comment that inspired the title for this post.

Art by: Psi

(Technically) Requested by: Erika

Erika and a Nice Pet.

Greetings all! We're back again this week, after a slight break as I was on vacation for the past two weeks or so. But getting back into the swing of things, we have a more unknown picture featuring myself and a snake! By "unknown" I mean this picture was never actually uploaded to Hypno Hub, so if you're only a Hub browser you may have missed this one. As well, this isn't just any average hypno snake. The snake itself is named "White" and is an OC of the artist who was kind enough to do this picture for me, tom65hg. The artist in question was also the one to name this image, and it is still posted on Deviant Art to this day. Thus, the name of this post is a direct lift from the picture itself.

As for how this picture came to be? Well actually there isn't much to say. One day I was just messaged on Deviant Art by tom65hg asking if he could draw me. Someone approaching me to draw me was rare, but always a welcome thing to see. So of course I was happy to hear it, and thus gave me approval. Not too long after, I was sent this completed picture with myself coiled up and hypnotized, while White licks my feet.

This picture is very much a foot fetish picture, as you can see how much detail went into the tongue looping around each toe. For those of you who don't know, I'm a pretty big foot fetishist myself, so I'm totally down for something like this! And correct me if I'm wrong, but this may or may not be the first foot related picture on the this blog. Though that will definitely change in some upcoming posts... A thing I never really noticed about this picture until I really scrutinized it just now though, was the fact that White doesn't have a standard forked snake tongue. Rather, it's like the tongue splits off into two separate tongues, allowing it to lick both feet and in between both toes. Quite an interesting snake design! Unfortunately, I don't know too much about the character though.

And of course, it wouldn't really be an Erika picture without some hypnosis in there! We have the standard Kaa eyes with a big dopey and mindless expression. Showing that I'm so hypnotized, that I probably don't even notice the tongue(s) slithering around my feet and toes. I've actually always been a big fan of the mindlessly blank and dumb looking smile. Blank and empty expressions are good too, but there's something about that blissful state of empty happiness that gets me, and this picture definitely nails that.

Besides that, this picture does unfortunately have the whole coil cocoon going on here. For those who might not remember, I'm actually not the biggest fan of that trait. Mainly because it obscures so much of the body, and it also seems a bit lazy to me BECAUSE it skips the body process. If I were to have a picture of a character being coiled, I'd like to see a fair bit of the body too, while the snake or tentacle works as a kind of rope. However, for this picture the focus is on the feet. And because of that, I can give it a pass here! We have the hypnotized expression, and the feet which was the main point.

Art by: tom65hg