I recently got around to watching Mannequin and Mannequin Two — On the Move, two movies I had never seen before. I enjoyed them both equally, though I know most people do not like the sequel that much. They both had their stupid moments, but there were other parts I enjoyed.

Then, today, I was doing some badly needed cleaning in my room and I came across these two photos in my collection.

The woman in the first photo strikes me as both innocent and surprised. She was aware something was happening to her before the effect was fully realized. And she looks as if she’s sitting right by a door. Who or what transformed her, and why?

The second photo is pretty brazen in what it shows off. The pose strikes me as very mannequin-ish. No, we’re not seeing where parts can be disconnected. And I can’t help but notice (but still appreciate) that her bottom half is wider than the top.

And why have both women been stripped naked? Is someone working on them for a display? I hope these ladies can recover after they have been (hopefully) restored to themselves.

But the reason I purchased both of these photos is that it strikes me that the women in them have been turned into (or are about to be turned into) mannequins. The first woman seems to have been in her home when it happened. The second, I have theories, but I don’t want to share right now. I don’t want to influence anyone looking at the photos.

These are two good examples of photos inspiring fantasies in viewers, and making the viewers come up with back stories. Who turned them into mannequins, and why?

Feel free to share what you come up with. And I hope everyone enjoys the photos.

Warning! Spoilers aplenty ahead!

So there I was in the checkout at Wal-Mart, when I looked at the bin in my right and there was this movie. It might have said “You’re a TF fan, aren’t you? You want to know if anyone gets turned to gold in this? Well, you’re just doing to have to buy me and find out.” It was only five dollars, so, why not?

It took me several years to actually watch the thing. I looked it up on IMDB, and found that it was made in 1997, and it was apparently a joint production by the USA and Romania. I didn’t have terribly high hopes for it, but I was pleasantly surprised.

A 12-year-old boy, Billy Bright, is an orphan living with his grandmother, who has a bad heart. Billy is also perpetually bullied at school by Leon, and his best and only friend is Hannah, a girl in his class. The bully forces Billy to break into the home of the rumored town witch and steal her hourglass. Confronted by the witch, Madame Latimer, Billy is given a wish. Wanting money so he can buy his grandma a good heart, Billy wishes for The Midas Touch. Billy is supposed to be a smart kid and should know The Touch is nothing but trouble! Madame Latimer even warns him of what he should already know. But he still asks for the Midas Touch. (It should be noted that the story of King Midas, to the best of my knowledge, has not gotten the Disney movie treatment save for a Silly Symphony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ-z0Qsm8k8.)

We soon find out that Billy’s Midas Touch is very selective. It can only be activated, apparently, by his right hand’s index finger. He goes around touching doors, door frames, his bicycle, dishes, clothes, all kinds of things. None of them go gold. The only thing that does turn gold is his pet hamster, and a book.

When Leon and Hannah realize Billy’s power, instead of getting as far away from Billy as possible, they try to help him, though Leon’s main objective is making money off the trash that Billy golden-izes. Leon takes it to a pawn shop where the brother and sister who realize what the kids have plot to steal things. They eventually follow Billy back to his home, and steal a solid-gold statue — Granny, who Billy accidentally turned to gold earlier.

So how are the transformations? The Touch starts with a golden spark from Billy’s finger, and then the metallicizing spreads over the body from the point where Billy touched it. We don’t see the transformation for Granny, he casually brushes his hand against her as he leaves the room. When he comes back, Granny is golden, and he panics.

Billy himself is turning to gold, apparently a side effect of the wish/curse. His teeth turn to gold, and he starts to feel stiff. They break into the town library (it’s after closing hours) to read up on how to cure the curse, and learn that Billy has to turn everything gold back to what it was, something he can do with second touch, and then bathe himself in a local, polluted river. And, to make matters worse, the pawn shop owners have melted Granny to liquid gold!

The sister who co-owns the pawn shop gets the golden treatment, which terrifies her brother so much that he faints. (The intellect of the pawn shop owners is just a little below that of the crooks in the original Home Alone movies, and they generally get what’s coming to them.)

Hannah and Leon are spared The Touch in the movie. Madame Latimer did something to Leon to change him from bully to nice kid, a change still in effect at movie’s end. And Billy does plenty of touching with his friends. It would’ve added to the movie’s tension had Billy turned Hannah to gold and had to turn her back. Perhaps Ashley Lyn Cafagna, the actress who played Hannah, didn’t want to undergo the process that would’ve made her a golden girl.

In all, The Midas Touch isn’t a bad movie, and those whose fantasies lean heavily to thoughts of metallacizing others will probably be able to use the movie as a launching pad for their fantasies. You may want to see if it can be streamed online. And, should you find it in a bin at Wal-Mart, there are worse ways to spend $5.00.

If you look at my deviantART gallery here https://www.deviantart.com/fmtfluver/gallery/ you’ll see something near or over 300 pieces of art, most of it involving transformations of some kind or other. It features women turning into dogs, cats, frogs, lizards, babies, shrinking, growing, acquiring enormous breasts, many kinds of transformation.

But then, there are also pieces of art such as this:

And this:

And this:

These are examples of different transformations, where the subjects are animals turned human. As you may know, the subjects above are certain little ponies who have become women. (Not girls, but women — don’t want to play around with underage nudes, after all.)

The idea of animals transformed into homo sapiens isn’t quite as common as the reverse. But they can still be entertaining and, yes, even erotic to the TF fan.

There was a movie in 1951 called You Never Can Tell about a dog who was supposed to inherit a lot of money, but he was shot to death before he could do so. He appeals to an assembly of animals in the next life to be given the chance to go back and help capture his murderer. He wish is granted, and he is turned into a man do pursue his mission. He is also assigned a filly who is turned into a woman to help him. (There’s a great scene where the woman, who still has her speed, is trotting alongside a bus to catch up with it.)

Bewitched dealt with this idea a few times. In a first season episode called “The Cat’s Meow,” Darrin is trying to find the right Asian model for an ad campaign. Samantha takes a stray Siamese and turns it into a woman, and a pretty sexy female at that. TF fans will like how she drinks tea catlike at one point of the episode.

The following season, a stray racehorse shows up in the Stephens’ back yard and Samantha humanizes it to find out where it came from. The horse, Dolly, was a cute woman.

Then, there was Comet, Supergirl’s pet horse in the 1960s. For those who don’t know, Comet was actually Biron, a centaur from mythological times. I won’t go into how he became a full horse with Kryptonian-like powers. (He was not vulnerable to kryptonite, which put him one-up on the other super-people and critters of the time.) Whenever a comet passed near Earth (Byron got his horsey name because of a comet-shaped birthmark on his flank), Byron turned into a human. And it was in this form he became Bronco Bill Starr, a rodeo rider. And one of Supergirl’s most recurring, yes, boyfriends. Thank God that Dr. Wertham never found out about THAT one!

There are novels on the subject. One I’ve read is Carmen Dog, set in a world in which women are turning into animals and vice versa. The main character is a dog who is turning into a woman while the wife of her “owner” is becoming a turtle. There’s a heavy feminist statement in the book about the dividing line between spouses and pets. If that doesn’t bother you, you might want to give the book a try.

I can remember a “Modern Madcap” cartoon from the 1950s or 1960s about a dog who finds a man’s suit and puts it on to live life as a man. It ends with him getting rid of the suit and declaring that “A dog’s life is best after all.” It was pretty par for the course in the “Madcap” series.

W have just scratched the surface. Can anyone else come up with more animal – to – human transformations?

Forty-five years ago, I took a course in college on children’s literature. One of the books we studied was a collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. And in it was a story called “The Salad.” Over the years, I have learned it is also known by the names “The Magic Heart” (Nippon Studios made this into an episode of their animated Grimm’s Fairy Tales Classics), “The Cabbages,” and, especially, “The Donkey Cabbages.” I have seen the story several times since, especially in complete collections of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

It is one of the lesser-known Grimm stories. It is a little lengthy, and starts in way that gives you no idea where it’s going. At the beginning, it’s about a young huntsman, traveller, what-have-you, and starts with the motif of the main character gaining a magic object (in this, a bird’s heart or an orb) that, after being swallowed, gives the possessor a gold coin under his pillow every morning when he wakes up, and a magic cloak that can take the wearer anywhere he wishes.

I won’t go through the entire story. One of the better versions on the Intertnet is here: https://www.mythpodcast.com/sources/donkey-cabbages-brothers-grimm/ Suffice it to say The object is stolen by an old witch with the help of the beautiful young girl (in some versions, her daughter) working for her. The traveler is then sent away to a mountaintop.

But then, the traveler finds a garden full of cabbages, some green, some white. He discovers that eating the green cabbages will turn him into a donkey (or an ass — have fun explaining that one to your kids), while eating the white ones will change him back. He takes several of the cabbages with him and finds his way back to the witch and the maiden, where he uses the cabbages to get revenge.

My guess is that this is not a better known Grimm’s tale because there is some animal cruelty endured by the women when they are in donkey form.

Still, it was interesting to see a tale where both genders are transformed. The anime version of this story does a nice, if slow, transformation of the women to donkeys and back.

I was at a comic-book show years ago where Zenoscope, the publishers of the Grimms Fairy Tales comic book had a booth. I told them of the cabbage story, and the first thing out of their mouths was “Is it dark?” (It wasn’t long afterward that I stopped reading Grimms Fairy Tales. Dark gets boring quickly.) So much for the story being better known.

I also know of a similar tale from India. In this one, a peasant finds a pool of clear water which turns a bather into a monkey, and a pool of dirty water which changes the bather back into a human. He sneaks a jug of the clear water into a princess’ bath, then later shows up with the dirty water to change her back into a human — and, as a reward, he is given her hand in marriage. (No, I don’t think Aladdin‘s Abu ever used the waters on Jasmine.)

Anyway, for transformation fans, “Donkey Cabbages” is one of the best fairy tales out there. And I would love to see some writer bring the cabbages into modern times.

Back in December, I ordered two photo shoots from two different women off of ebanned. I finally got them over the past week and the result could not be more different.

I think that, with the first one I received, the woman didn’t really want to do the shoot as I’d described it. Keep in mind, when I commissioned the shoot, I told her several times that, if she didn’t want to do the poses I’d asked for, she could tell me and we’d try to work something out. She kept saying she’d do them. She kept putting it off for different reasons. When I finally got it, out of 74 pictures, only a quarter of them were what I’d asked for. The rest were close-ups of her boobs, her crotch (I’ve never wanted to be a gynecologist), her butt, etc.

I think she was expecting to do porn and not tell a story in pictures. And porn is what I got.

But then, I got the other set. As if to make up for the first one, this one was perfect. The woman had the look of a MILF, and I was quickly able to create a story in my mind about the pictures. The woman posed as I had wanted her to pose, her expressions were right.

The only complaint I had was that the pictures were not framed very well. Parts of her body were cropped off. But it’s a minor complaint, I was pleased with the shoot.

I just mention this for people inspired by my previous post on commissioning photos recently, so they know what to look out for. I’d say, be sure to have a good description of what you want for each pose, and make sure your model wants do cooperate and do the poses you asked for.

Spoiler warning! This overview of the 1946 Movie The She-Wolf of London gives away a number of plot point of the movie in an effort to keep werewolf fans away from the movie. So you might want to skip this review and see the actual movie yourself some day. But, keep in mind, you WILL be disappointed in the movie!

I had such high hopes for The She-Wolf of London when I learned of its existence. A werewolf movie starring June Lockhart? (It was released in 1946, twelve years before June became Ruth Martin, the mother of Timmy on TV’s Lassie.) During the heyday of Universal Studios horror movies? (Okay, it was late in that heyday, but still, it sounded promising.) But our sweet June terrorizing the city? How could I resist that?

First, the good news: The movie only runs an hour-and-one-minute long. So you won’t lose too much of your life in watching it. And it’s really more of a mystery than a horror movie.

The movie starts with June as Phyllis Allenby a wealthy, pretty, but unbelievably wimpy heiress deliberately losing a horse race to her fiancé, Barry Lanfield (Don Porter, who two decades later would be Gidget’s dad) so they could be married the following week instead of waiting several months. They happily plan their wedding.

However, there are a number of gruesome and troublesome murders in the park, including a 10-year-old boy, and, later, a police detective. Newspapers have been playing up the possibility that the murders are the doing of a werewolf, though the London police give no credence to those rumors.

However, poor Phyllis not only believes the werewolf theory is possible, she thinks that she is the werewolf! Barry tries to convince her she’s not, as do the caretakers of the mansion where Phyllis lives, Martha Winthrop (Sara Haden) and her daughter, Carol. Or do they? Martha gives Phyllis many calming potions to relax her. Carol, on the other hand, is busy trying to see her starving artist boyfriend, a relationship her mother does not approve of!

June gives some good scenes in this movie, especially when she’s looking in the mirror and then at her hands, wondering if they sprout fur and claws. (There is no indication of many of the myths of lycanthropy, no mention of full moons and such. Phyllis, however, is shown once reading a book called Lycanthropy — The Legend.)

But June as just Phyllis is a delicate flower, made of gossamer and dandelion seeds. In other words, she is the typical distressed damsel of so many bad Gothic novels, that you’re dying to see her go from woman to wolf and give the movie some actual horror!

Stop! About to give away everything! Do NOT read further if you don’t want the movie spoiled for you.

But Phyllis does NOT change into a werewolf! We suspect she is not the title creature of the movie when, (except or one scene early in the movie) in the mornings, after the havoc the wolf-woman is supposed to have been wreaking the night before, wimpy little Phyllis wakes up in her nightdress, which is perfectly dry, and hasn’t the least of tears and rips in it.

It turns out that Phyllis is NOT a werewolf, that she has been the victim of the cruelest of hoaxes, with someone else trying to get Phyllis committed to an asylum, or make it look as if Phyllis has taken her own life (out of guilt for the murders she thinks she has committed) so that the party really responsible can inherit the mansion that Phyllis lives in.

The movie ends with Barry comforting Phyllis, telling her that the werewolf will never kill anyone ever again.

And TF fans everywhere are left sitting in front of the TV, pausing their DVDs to look at June by herself, wishing the wolfsbane would indeed bloom and give us the she-wolf we wanted to see!

If nothing else, it would’ve made Lassie a lot more interesting.

I should also say that there was a short-lived TV series also called The She-Wolf of London. Except for the title, it had nothing to do with the movie. This starred Kate Hodge, as an American woman in London, who, by the first episode’s end, had indeed been cursed to turn into a werewolf during every full moon. It was really a precursor to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with the werewolf and her boyfriend tracking down different supernatural threats every week.

Sadly, at this time the parents’ groups (one of the TRULY great menaces of our times) were telling everyone that, if TV shows such as Freddy’s Nightmares and Friday the 13th — The Series were no longer syndicated, all of our children’s problems would be solved. So The She-Wolf of London TV series wasn’t allowed to continue. The producers tried. Thinking viewers were turned off by a series set in London, they moved the show’s setting to Los Angeles and changed the title to Love and Curses. It didn’t work. However, you can get the entire series in a DVD boxed set for a relatively low price. It’s worth it.

Over the years, usually through websites such as naughtybids or ebanned, (and eBay, though that’s harder to do now that it’s gotten harder to find the “Adults Only” section) I’ve commissioned photos of women posing as different animals, and usually wearing about as much as animals usually wear. It can be expensive (and in some cases, even moreso because you have to wire money overseas), but you can usually arrange for a good deal for under $100 USD.

The first thing you HAVE to do when commissioning TF photos is tell the model and/or photographer the kind of poses you want from them. That can end the transaction right there. Some of them will feel posing as animals (especially in the nude) is too weird. Some will get it in their heads that you are hinting at bestiality, which is a big no-no for many people. (I’ve done a few things where women are hypnotized into thinking they’re dogs and will sniff and lick the crotch of another woman, but that’s the closest I’ve come.) But, if you’re lucky, you’ll find someone who has no trouble with the idea, and maybe even will have fun doing it. (Of course, those who are especially lucky are those who have significant others who know of their partner’s fetish and will happily participate either posing for photos, making a video, or even engaging in some role-playing!)

I dated a woman for years and, once, I talked her into posing for a TF set. In it, I imagined she was a teacher who had to visit the home of a student to talk to the parent about how the student was doing in school. Unbeknownst to the teacher, the parent was a witch. While the teacher was going through records, her clothing began to disappear until she was naked. And then, her mind began to change so she began to think she was, first, a chicken, and then a dog. As a dog, she got on all fours, crouched like a sitting dog, and then begged like a dog — all the time with her tongue hanging out. In a couple of the pictures, her eyes had rolled back into her head, which added wonderfully to the effect. We broke up about 20 years ago, and I got rid of the photos. (I don’t do revenge porn anyway.) She’s now married to a preacher!

For that matter, I don’t share any of the TF photos of women who’ve posed for commissioned photos for me unless they give permission. They’re posing for me, not a bunch of other people, and I don’t need for any of them to find themselves on line with a collar on them on all fours next to a bowl of water or dog food. (Hint: I have found that canned corned beef makes a good and acceptable substitute for canned dog food.)

The woman in the picture below calls herself Thai Kitty. She has her own adult website here http://www.thaikittypanties.com/wp/ and, besides her undies, she also does custom photos and videos. She HAS given me permission to post her photos. Do know that, if you commission something from her, you’ll most likely have to pay her fee, but also pay the cost of wiring the money to her overseas. But it’s worth it IMHO.

In this first picture, she has been turned into a monkey. I love the Monkey Maiden photo because it’s one of the best monkey-poses I’ve ever seen. I suspect Thai Kitty’s residency in Southeast Asia, where monkeys running wild are not uncommon, helped her know how to pose. And she knows that monkeys aren’t necessarily cute and cuddly animals. She looks as if she’s getting ready to attack.

Then, there are these photos where she’s a maid in a hotel where one of the guests, attracted to her, works magic on her.

These were all images I had downloaded in my gallery. If you’ve seen them before, I hope you don’t mind seeing them again. And, this way, I can add captions to tell the story.

(I had tried to send a set of costume cat whiskers to her, but they got lost on the way overseas. But she made it up herself by drawing whiskers and a nose on her face. In this last photo, don’t you just want to have her on your lap so you can pet her?)

If you’re getting TF photos, you might want to consider props, as simple as dog collars, or jewelry which is causing the transformation, maybe a little make-up. (Or a lot, if you’re a lycanthrope fan or something similar.) Depending on how far the model is to go along with a shoot, you can get him or her a collar with a cow bell on it. And, if you have a private outdoor place where you can take photos, a photo of the subject grazing might be possible.

Once again, I have to ask if anyone following this blog has engaged in such photography themselves? Or commissioned or made videos? I’m not asking you to share with the rest of us (unless you’ve got a REALLY understanding and cooperative subject). But I hope you’ve found this entry informative and maybe even inspiring.

I don’t know if this is just me, or if it happens to other TF luvers as well.

I’ll win an auction for a commission on eBay. Or, I’ll be walking into a comic con, sometimes a BIG one, with lots of artists in attendance. I’ll have LOTS of money to spend and ready to get in the artists’ alley and start making commissions.

And I can’t decide what I want them to draw for me!

I have been to ComiCons in Chicago, near Detroit, little local cons, Kansas City cons, and I’ve even made it four times to ComiCon International in San Diego. And I can’t decide who or what I want to have drawn!

From the 1980s to the naughts, I was fond of having art done of real women undergoing transformations, sometimes of comics characters changing. But I got to the age where the real women were aging and dying on me. And, too often, the comics characters were being killed off. (True, in comics there’s a good chance they’ll come back to life, but then, they can be killed off again.)

More recently, I’ve commissioned women I’ve made up, maybe in certain occupations or types. But that has just led to “What do I want this one to be, what do I want her to change into, etc?”

This has also led me to being vulnerable to certain comic con artists. One time, I told an artist I wanted him to draw a woman turning into a lizard. “A lizard?!” he bellowed in a bellow I’m sure he wanted everyone on the floor to hear. (I was not as forceful in what I’d commission as I would later be.) He eventually talked me into having a bunny drawn. Not a human woman with rabbit ears and a tail, but a woman in a bathing suit and a Playboy bunny ears and Playboy bunny tail. I was able to sell it to a friend for what I’d initially paid for it, but I wasn’t happy with the entire transaction.

I recently won a photo shoot by mail of 10 photos through ebanned. I’ve done these before, and have gotten some pretty good sequences of a woman being mentally transformed and becoming an animal and posing as such. (Check out the photos of Thai Kitty in my dART gallery.) I’ve gotten good results, but I’m stuck on what I want for these 10. (I usually start with the woman fully clothed, then her clothes magically disappear, and then the animal takes over her brain.)

It’s a quandry only a metamorphiliac can face, and it’s something that can actually keep me up at night.

(I did date a former exotic dancer for a while, and she agreed to pose for me as a teacher with a student whose parent wasn’t happy about some of their child’s grade. It was a parent who had magic powers, and the teacher ended up as their pet for a while. If anyone has a partner who knows of their fetish and can agreed to posing, you’re a lucky person with a very understanding spouse, and more power to you.)

Anyone else have this problem? You’ve got the money, you’ve got an artist, but you can’t come up with a concept for the art?!

I’ve been talking only about the TFs I’d like to see. What about the rest of you? What would you like to turn into or turn someone into? For that matter, would you prefer to be the one transformed or the one who transforms someone else?

Would you like to be made smaller? Gigantic? A different gender? A different race? Mammal? Reptile? Bird? Some creature of mythology?

There’s a lot of choices in the world of transformation. Which ones are yours? Please, let the rest of us know.

If you’ve yet to visit my deviantART site, do so now.

https://www.deviantart.com/fmtfluver

Make sure you look at the gallery. No rush, I promise this will still be here when you return.

Welcome back. I began my dART site back in July of 2011. Originally, all I had were some text pieces. The first art was in December of 2012. As you can see, I’ve added a LOT of art in the time since then.

Over the years, many people who visit my gallery have questions, two in particular.

1. How did I get so much transformation art? (That’s not all I have in my gallery, but it’s what attracts the most attention.) And I’ll answer that by saying I’ve commissioned it.
2. How do I work up the nerve to ask for such commissions?

The first art I ever commissioned was from an artist advertising in The Buyer’s Guide for Comics Fandom, the precursor to Comics Buyer’s Guide. I asked for some honest-to-God pin-up art of Saturn Girl, Tigra, The Wasp, and Zatanna. And you could say two of these qualified as TF art, as The Wasp was in her tiny size and Tigra was always a cat-woman. (At this time, however, Tigra did not yet have her tail. Oh, and this was the time that Saturn Girl was wearing her cut-away outfit that she wore throughout the 1970s — an outfit which I designed.)

It was late the following year that I found another artist in <i>TBG</i> advertising work, and that was my first true, intentional piece of transformation art:

This was a fairly successful newswoman of the time, and I knew a lot of people at the time who referred to her as a bitch. So, I came up with a back story where she was asking the wrong questions of a magician who possessed real magical powers, with this result. (What I especially liked about this art was how the eyes seemed to realize what had happened to her, but she knew she could do nothing about it.)

It was three years later that I would be able to attend my first major comic book show, Chicago ComiCon of 1980. I was still not realizing that I could’ve asked some of the major artists attending for transformation art. Or, if I did, I was, yes, too shy to ask for it. Instead, I got a semi-nude (not revealing anything, really) She-Hulk from Mike Vosburg (her artist of the time), a Katma Tui (from current Green Lantern artist of the time, Joe Staton, who is now drawing wonderful work on Dick Tracy), and a cartoony Supergirl. The Supergirl showed a concept I’d come up with some time ago, but one that could never have been used in a Code-Approved comic of the time. So this could count as transformation art.

Two years later, I was unemployed for what would turn out to be a three-and-a-half-year period. I managed to make it to Chicago in 1982 because friends went with me to that and we shared the costs. And, from one artist there, I had a drawing done of Loni Anderson as a mermaid. Then, a friend of a friend used a 1960s photo of Sophia Loren to draw her as a mermaid. In 1984, I had Dolly Parton drawn as mermaid. (The artist wrote a word on the side and gave the art a title: SPLOOSH, in honor of the <i>Splash!</i> movie which had come out this year.) The mermaids were baby steps toward more unusual “womanimals,” which included women turned part animals. The following year, I had art done of a popular female TV star of the time done as part woman part cat.) By the time of the Dolly mermaid, I had gotten my job with <i>Comics Buyer’s Guide</i>.

As the years went by, my gallery grew — as did my reputation among artists. In the mid-90s, I went up to an artist I had never met before and told her I wanted a famous princess of the time drawn as a centaur. She looked at me and said “I’ve heard about you!”

Over the years, I’ve attended dozens of comic book (and science fiction and game) shows, and I’ve gotten art from many of them. I even have one piece, which would be hard to scan right now as it’s in a frame, that is a pencil sketch of myself by Rowena Morrill. It’s a pretty old piece. I still had some hair. (No, I’m not naked in it. I wouldn’t do that to the world.)

But, what of commissioning transformation art? It started slowly. As with the art above, there may just be some body parts, such as paws instead of hands or feet, and maybe a tail, and, a bit of behavior modification, maybe a tongue sticking out. That’s for a canine, of course. You might want to do something reptilian:

Of waterfowl:

Whatever appeals to your fancy!

The other thing to keep in mind is that transformation art ain’t cheap! Just one page pieces can be PRICEY! You can be lucky if you don’t end up paying around $40. The drawing in my gallery of my OC, Skye Sparkler (also in my later blog entry about creating Skye) was by Neal Adams, and THAT cost $800!!

Even more costly is if you decide you want a page of panels showing the transformation. The paneled, seven-page story “Convincing the CEO” by LadyNin-Chan

( https://www.deviantart.com/ladynin-chan ) cost me somewhere between $420 – $450 total! You might be able to find an artist willing to take payments in installments BEFORE they start any work on it. And then, you have to decide if you’re also going to pay for inks, color, etc. But the end result can be beautiful beyond your dreams — and those of visitors to you dART gallery! (See the four-page “Possible AR” set in my gallery.)

One other thing to remember if you commission transformation art is to have with you art or photos of the animal or object or whatever you want the subject to be transformed into. During my period of unemployment in the early 80s, I scratched enough together to commission a picture of a woman turning into a hopping frog. I thought, if the artist didn’t know for sure what a frog looked like, he could go to a library and find a reference. He didn’t, and I got back a picture that, among other things, merged the thighs and calves against each other and the body! She should’ve been unable to move, much less hop.

I also learned at that time to demand samples of an artists work. Find out what the artist’s work looks like before you commit to a commission.

You should also have a reference for characters, even if an artist had drawn that character many times in the past. When I commissioned the Katma Tui from Joe Staton, I did not give him a reference for her, and he left off one of her most distinguishing characters: The tufts on her hair! It’s a gorgeous piece, but it’s hard to tell who she is, as she is “out of uniform.”

There are artists who will be more willing to depict subjects as part animal than they will be to be showing any naughty bits OR actions. It’s up to you to decide if that’s acceptable or not. And up to you to decide what you want and how much you’re willing to pay for it.

I nearly forgot, there are several artists who have done work for me on deviantART that I wanted to mention. They all do great work in different styles and they are relatively affordable. They are:

Schnopzilla at https://www.deviantart.com/schnopszilla – A good cartoony style, very good at depicting stages of transformation, starting human and ending animal or AR. Sometimes, if you commission it, he will go backwards from animal to human. Good, reasonable rates. He usually does black-and-white.

Cosmotrama Studios at – https://www.ebay.com/str/cosmotramastudiofbclid=IwAR2Rge6AgUCkcDHNzrONkpd46GeVOsR-GSZKA73IR7cbDle5eb5CRy2DoM — A group in Brazil, they are a little expensive, but worth it! They did my four-page “Possible AR” series. They have several artists you can chose from and find one whose style is what you want. They also did this for me.

The unbelievable color for “Possible AR” was supplied by pikotime at https://www.deviantart.com/pikotime He was recommended for me by LadyKraken, who I will get to in a minute. If you decide to commission from him or any artist, check with them to find out their rates first.

Lady Kraken at https://www.deviantart.com/ladykraken , a wonderful, friendly artist in Spain, she also has a site at Patreon and other places. If you can afford it, do try to become a member for her on Patreon. She does incredible work, and has (so far) done six art pieces for me. I don’t think there’s a commission you can give her that she won’t or can’t do. She’s even done some “reverse” TFs in which certain little ponies and their princesses become human. Below is a concept I came up with for her which MAY have a story someday.

Lady-Nin-Chan (Nina) at https://www.deviantart.com/ladynin-chan has a manga/anime style. She did my seven(!)-page “Convincing the CEO” story. She does her best to work with you to make sure you get what you want.

immortal tom at https://www.deviantart.com/immortaltom is good at weird stuff, sexy stuff, sexy weird stuff. He did my “Global news” piece, which may be the strangest TF in my dART gallery. And that’s saying something! Let him know what you want first, to make sure it isn’t TOO strange for him, but it seldom will be.

I hope this blog entry has been helpful in encouraging people to commission art, and, if they are artists themselves (I’m not, which is why I commission stuff), maybe it will encourage them to accept TF commissions.