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Who am I?

Sorry to disappoint, but I am not that German Actress/ Babe who has an unusually high search result when you type in 'ferres'.

I guess my work has been around on the web long enough for people to start asking who the hell is this Ferres dude. So, what about me?

Let's see, I was born back in 1968. I live in an island you hear about only when there is a disaster, both natural and man made, and of course the occasional silliness.

I am Catholic (surprise, surprise). I have been drawing and making doodles for as long as I can remember. I think I'm the only BDSM-art freak in my little corner of the globe.

My interest with erotic imagery has been with me since I realized I was a guy. I did try to be more sedate but the powers that be guided me to this direction and they were not exactly subtle about it.

I got into airbrushing at college. The course was not exactly related to my interest but the discipline provided some necessary experience with this air powered weapon. I never finished . I had several years of experience with the airbrush, doing illustrations for ads as well as architectural concepts.

So it wasn't like I took up a computer and started making these illustrations. I started with traditional media and migrated to digital when opportunity allowed.

Influences...

Hmm. I distinctly remember 3 movies that have profoundly affected my youth and probably set the fires in my psyche. There was the very adult 'Caligula', 'Ilsa, She wolf of the SS' and 'Heavy Metal'. (Do I hear the pitter-patter of psycho analysts?)

At first, my early works focused more on Sci-fi and Fantasy art. I created large illustration of mostly Fantasy settings. Chris Achilleos and Boris Vallejo were my favorite artists at the time and of course there was the occasional Corben and his well endowed females. I failed to develop a real interest in superhero type comix, I was more into the HM mag scene. Corben's work on the Den series was an eye opening experience for me and his influence can still be discerned in my work today.

Beliefs...

I can't say I'm a God fearing individual, but I do believe in God. I just think of myself as a none practicing Catholic. I don't understand this need to fear someone who suppose to love you. He gives you total love but if you do something wrong he sends you to hell... 'forever'. If this were a marital relationship, somebody definitely needs counselling.

The Naked Earth...

Perhaps some of you have heard about 'Naked Earth'. Well, that was my first true foray into real adult comix. It would not be fair to talk about myself without bring up the 'Naked Earth' project, since without it I would not be doing the kind of work I liked doing and actually get paid for it.

When I first started Naked Earth back in 1997, it was in black and white. I had very little knowledge of computer coloring by then. There was a Mac but it was being hogged by someone else who will remain nameless.

I did a few early pages using water color and pencil techniques to create halftones. I really had no idea it was going to go anywhere, I just wanted to draw this comic. I did not care if it was going to make money, I just found it liberating to take a pencil to paper and mold a fantasy world where the only limits were my imagination (cliché moment).

Well, later on Mr. nameless decided to buy himself a new Mac and I finally got a Mac to work with. First thing I did was get more ram. This was back in 97 mind you. Ram back then cost about an arm and a leg. I think it set me back $500+ for just a measly 64 megs of ram. So I was chugging away with 128 megs of ram on a 90 mhz computer with 1.5 gig total of disk space. Scary, huh? It still gives me nightmares.

1998 came along. Now with my own computer to work on and armed with a little knowledge of PhotoShop, I tried coloring a more recent version of the Naked Earth pages. Eventually getting access on the net with the help of a friend and with my own website, Naked Earth was sent off to the world. About a year afterwards the Mac promptly died (Oh, the humanity!).

Naked Earth became a medium to develop and fine tune my skills with the digital canvas as well as the monetary gains to upgrade my computer. With the death of the Mac, I had to move to a cheaper PC. It took a while to relearn the keyboard commands of the PC, specially the change in the ctrl and alt keys with command keys.

When things finally settled a bit in late 1999. I focused exclusively on 'Naked Earth'. By this time 'Naked Earth' was being promoted by ols2000. The partnership lasted until late 2001, then things went south when a lot of wrong people got into the mix.

Two books of Naked Earth were complete by late 2001 and a third one, 'Naked Earth: Shadowside', was starting up. After a couple of months with little word and no income, I opted to move on.

'Shadowside' had a different look to it compared to the first 2 books. It also had a stronger BDSM feel to it. I took sometime to experiment with new techniques, this eventually evolved into the present visual style I use today. Even though 'Shadowside' never got completed, it is perhaps the single project that put me into a transitional path to my present incarnation.

Now I'm working almost exclusively on BDSM art for dofantasy.com starting with 'A Passage East', the 'Disenchantment' and the just released 'Steel Trap Maiden'. With the launch of 'www.FERRESart.com', there will be opportunities to go beyond BDSM art and perhaps even bring back 'Naked Earth'.

Continuation on FerresArt.com