Achilles

The Demented Doctors

Added 2023-12-16 01:38:44 +0000 UTC

(EDIT: I had a shadow layer turned off when I first posted this so I re-uploaded it)

I really made you wait for this one, guys. Hope it was worth it. This is a piece that has been coming for a long time. Not only because a particular member really wanted to see it (and has been very patient) but because I HAD to do the Stooges at some point. After all, they are responsible for some of the most infamous mainstream tickle scenes of all time.

The question was, how to do it? Should the Stooges be tickled? Ultimately I decided they made better 'lers and that they should be tickling a cute guy. I loved the idea of them tickling someone into insanity so I cast them as "The Demented Doctors". Laughter is the best medicine after all.

This is a piece I'd dreaded drawing because it's a little challenging to position 4 characters interacting with each other in a small space who are all wearing very specific costumes. I actually used AI to assist with this one. I couldn't get AI to reproduce the Stooges themselves, but I could get 2 generic men in lab coats standing on either side of someone in something kinda/sorta like a straight jacket. It was a great jumping off point, and it was a way I feel very comfortable using AI: as a tool.