“Yes! Damn, I knew it! What the hell are these things for - drawing, writing and publishing tickling materials?” At last it has been brought up.

There are three moving strongholds I find very challenging and enjoyable about drawing tickling arts. That’s ridiculous - tickling art is quite a shallow art genre! Well, in one thought, they are just giggling actions, nothing more! Most mainstream comics come up with intricate angles and the big challenge is in foreshortening, perspective, subject composition, style, overlapping…and etcetera.

For tickling, all you will have to accomplish is draw a male or female figure with a ticklee and a tickler - nothing more. Yawn already. It sounds like there is no further weight behind it or any principle to come up with depth. Hmmm, this is where I need to elaborate a bit. It has something to do with the ‘hard to draw’ body parts in a figure namely: the hands, the feet, and facial expressions. Because figure drawing is the most hardcore beast I ever encountered
on the face of the drawing board, I will tell you the obvious yet significantly taken for granted.

1. The Power of Hands

I have come close to it. Tickling is associated with touch, caress, naughty exploration and hand movement. The other implements and accessories are just add-ons, but when you deal with people into serious tickling, it will never be called one without the action of hands – fingers twitched with indirect expressions in them. So you think the human anatomy only deals with the bones and kinetics of joints to achieve expressive motion? The expression is carried out from the moment the wrinkles could be trailed from the face until it reflects from the flexing of each fingers! Effective tickling and hands are inevitable elements of tickling. Anyone who takes the wits drawing human figures will find putting expression on hand movement a challenging task. In fact, drawing the hands in action is never an easy thing to do.

2. The Grandeur that was Feet

Feet are hard to draw. The angles are frustrating to project in mainstream drawing, given toes of varying sizes and the requirement to make them look attractive and symmetrically correct, unless you are just showing one foot. The extreme front angle will not guarantee length and proper clue for its appeal.

Unfortunately, drawing the feet takes too much toll in drawing tickling arts. You really have to master it to please the foot-loving audience. What the crap? Will this be needed in the mainstream world? It doesn’t matter. I have come to terms with how important it is in drawing figures, while on the contrary, non-foot conscious people think it is too remote from the head to be bothered about. Nope, as much as it is challenging, the feet is important element to me, the same way head and expressions are important in every figure drawing. In tickling, the soles are shown in full glory, which is the least part seen in other common arts. The same way with hands, facial expressions extend and become one important culmination of tickling scene.