This artwork is by Finnish illustrator Ossi Hiekkala. According to his blog, the illustration is called “The Taming of Women” and he drew it while studying in Japan. He provided the illustration for use on the cover of a Finnish science fiction anthology, and it was also used without his permission as cover art for a music single by The New Pornographers.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
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Another forest crucifixion
This image was posted to a French blog in 2007, and then subsequently reposted in a larger size by the same blogger. It appears to be art photography, but no information on the photographer could be discovered.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
A crucifixion *and* a volcanic eruption — exciting!
The stray pixels, unfinished edges, and diverse visual textures in different parts of this image make it appear to have been constructed by copying and pasting with image editing software from pre-existing parts (perhaps the volcano image and the anime nude) with additions (the cross, the shackles) added manually by an amateur artist. This has all the appearance of an image constructed by an enthusiast for one of the many active erotic-crucifixion forums and sites, such as this one. Unfortunately no information on the artist could be determined. There is a slightly-different version of the image here (from this thread on a Japanese image forum) in which the heroine’s legs are apart and her body is covered with splashes of unidentified goop. On one site this image is tagged as “Xenia crucified”, supporting speculation that the girl may be a character named “Xenia” in an anime source not discovered.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Larval fantasia
This artwork is entitled Rapture – For Alex and it’s a collaboration between digital artist Jana Schirmer (janaschi) and Johannes Voß (algenpfleger). Schirmer, who is a digital artist from Leipzig, explains:
“Alex’s birthday was on Oct 1st. Deciding on a subject matter was easy and hard at the same time. We pretty much knew what Alex likes, but he didn’t want any more Dickbutt, so we had to use Raupe-kun instead!”
There’s a breathless post criticizing the artwork for being pornographic here; it suggests that Raupe-kun means something like “caterpillar fetish”.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Cross of stone
This image appears to be some sort of hentai doujinshi featuring Fraw Bow (aka Fraw Kobayashi), a character in the massive Universal Century (UC) Gundam universe. The character identification rests on comparison of the facial appearance of Fraw Bow (see previous link) with that of the recognizably-similar character in several different doujinshi artworks (including this one of interest) in a Japanese-language image forum thread here. In further support of the identification, machine translation of that thread’s Japanese title returns the phrase “Gundam Heroine Collection”, and machine translation of a caption here (where our image also appears) yields the phrase “is Frau Bow”. The actual image in question appears to be one of two similar images from this sequence of two. The first image features another woman (possibly Sayla Mass aka Seira Masu) who has not yet been on her cross for so long and appears in a less-advanced state of urinary distress. The gallery in which this sequence appears is listed here as 烏乃巣 (no machine translation available) and described as シミパンツ (shimipantsu) which means something like “stained panties”.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Mermaid vore
According to Danbooru, this art is by the artist Pukao, who also sometimes goes by the name Pukarin, and is said to be a “Japanese artist specializing in cute chibi monster-girls.” In addition to the Danbooru galleries, the artist maintains a presence on Pixiv, and also here.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
La Sorcière
This is a framed advertising poster for a play (La Sorciere: drame gitan en un acte d’Eddy Ghilain, or “The Witch: a gipsy drama in one act by Eddy Ghilain”) that showed in 1961 at the Grand Guignol theater in Paris. The image probably comes from the poster gallery at grandguignol.com, where there’s also a list of performances of the 1960s, including this one. For interest, there’s an article at Io9.com about the peculiar genre of gory and erotic humor for which this Paris venue was famous.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Lab probe
This illustration originally appeared in a print magazine (you can see where the gutter has been imperfectly removed by the person who scanned it). Unfortunately it is not simple to identify the magazine or illustration. The style is typical of illustrations appearing (often without an identified illustrator credit) in Japanese bondage magazines starting with the venerable Kitan Club after WWII and continuing through a long series of titles like (in the 1970s and 1980s) SM Play, SM King, SM Fan, S&M Frontier, and many more. There is a profusion of scanned artwork on the web from these vintage magazines but little of it is searchable without Japanese-language skills. Here, for example, is a gallery of such artwork that includes this illustration plus a companion piece clearly by the same artist, and many more in similar styles. From the style of these pieces, I suspect they date to the 1980s, but that is close to pure speculation.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Whistle a merry tune
This anime-style robot catgirl whistling a musical note with her head tucked underneath her arm was uploaded to the Danbooru image board in 2008 and quickly spread to other boards such as Gelbooru and Sankaku Complex. Unfortunately, no information about the artist or an earlier source can be determined.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Who?
This art is titled “Christmas” as may be seen beside the artist’s signature, and is dated “05” — presumably for 2005. Unfortunately the signature itself is indistinct; it could be “tizmo” or “tizno” or “tilmo” or “tilno” or “tidno” or “tidmo” or a few other less-likely possibilities. It appears to have been uploaded to the Rule 34 image board in 2008. Unfortunately, no more information could be discovered.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.