Friday, July 13, 2012

Fucking Spells

Even well cast spells can go wrong!


So this is another cap for Smitty.  We'll call this the last part of the return for his 'Caitlyn Week' or a return for him including me in his latest Living Dolls cap.  Either way, I just love capping smitty.  It seems to bring out a fun side that I don't often travel down.  Sure, capping smitty also means some happy porntastic capping as well, but I try to give each cap for smitty a little extra edge... a little extra fun.

So with that in mind, I went looking for some hard core images.  When I saw this set I figured it would be ideal.  First, smitty seems to enjoy realfield's Alpha universe... and while I wasn't planning on making an Alpha story for him, I thought he might dig the ripped stud in the photo as much as the curvy girl.  And what a girl!  There's always something about that little chain they were around their waist.

So with a gallery (but no specific images from that gallery) selected, I sat back and tried to get a story.  Like I said, I want something a little 'more' so I don't want to write a story and not necessary know where it's going.  I want the zinger in mind before I start, that way I can really drive toward it.

Normally I don't like the money shots.  Sure, seeing a girl's face covered with cum has a certain appeal, but it's not my favorite thing.  But looking at her covered like she is, ad her almost pissed off and humiliated expression, I thought that might be a good place to start.  My mind started to wander to one of my pet peeves... that getting cum inside of you while you are transformed (normally it's associated with body suits) makes it permanent.  I mean, what's so special about cum, unless it's magical cum.

But if a spell called for it...

That's where it hit.  Two warlocks transform each other for bets.  in this case smitty lost, and had to become Calvin's fuck toy (hey... I like 'winning' a transformation cap as much as the next guy!).  But smitty figures his friend would double cross him by cumming inside of his new body, so he sets the spell up so that as soon as he gets cum inside of him, he gets transformed back.

Of course he doesn't consider that his friend might be nice enough to specifically avoid that, leaving her stuck in that sexy body until she DOES get cum in her. I really liked the idea of a good guy inadvertently fucking over someone by being nice.  And it's a nice little middle finger to the whole 'oh noes i'm now a bimbo since i got cum inside of me'.

It's funny how design works out.  Normally I when I start the layout process I get the image to a standard size (in this case 800 pixels wide), then expand the canvas by 300 pixels (taking it up to 1100 pixels wide).  I then pick a color out of the photo and make a little gradient out of it for the new expanded background.   Once I have the story in place I look for an appropriate background image.  Just something abstract, but that matches the tone of the story.  Bold for a bold story, faded and soft for a more emotional story.   I then color it in to match the background, and fade it out so that it isn't too overpowering.

I knew I was going to follow that in this case, and went for the orange gradient (picked the color from the couch figuring it would match both panels).  When I went looking for that abstract background I added the term 'starburst' to the search as I wanted it rather bold and spicy.  Here is the image I found:

I believe it may be the first time that I found a background image that already matched the colors I had picked.  I just dropped it in, rotated it to be vertical, stretched it JUST a touch to fit the background and leave out the text, and then faded it in.  No coloring required.  It even matched the yellow glow I already had around the photos.

9 comments:

  1. I love the line 'I'm better at this than some pro-whores'... mmmh, that's something to be proud of.

    Magic spells that are bothy sticky and fun are always the best and I like the change of perspectives throughout.

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    1. Thanks Evie! I almost added something along the lines of 'I must be the best ranked amateur cock sucker' but there just wasn't space and it felt a little too awkward.

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  2. love this put a spell on me anytime

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  3. Oh yeah, that was perfect Caitlyn! I love the cap you nailed Smitty perfectly! Literally and Figuratively! Great Job!

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  4. I like the twist that one wants to avoid making it permanent by not doing the one thing that would break the spell. Nice!

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    1. It's especially clever in that it's a play off my own aversion to 'stuck with cum caps', so I totally would try to anticipate this with a counterspell.

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  5. Thanks barbie, Ginger and Panty LisaAnn. This was a fun cap to make and I'm glad to see that it was well received!

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  6. A couple things I wanted to point out that I like about your caps for me, because they are just so naturally done that some people might not catch how clever they are.

    One is you always manage to fit in some of my favorite devices but with your own style. Like the comical disconnect of perceptions in a he said she said format. But not only does she use a distinctly different layout for this on her cap, but the pacing is uniquely hers, much more focused and on beat than my sprawling caps.

    The same is true of the humor. It's based on humiliation, meta jokes about cap cliches such as why any one would honor a bet like this, and quirky turns of phrase like pro-whores. But it's also distinctly Caitlyn's with a much more disciplined book ended approach to it.

    One thing I like about your style is how elusive it is. I think most people would be hard pressed to say what a Caitlyn cap reads like, and I think that's because they end up so fluid and natural, that you don't see the writing process, just the finished product.

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    1. I don't believe I've had praise for one of my caps or my style in general spelled out quite so elegantly. I'm at a loss for words... thank you Smitty! Thank You!

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