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Self-Censor?

Dreamed 2022/11/4 by Wayan

I'm in an art class at City College. I think "ESP tells me a girl with a huge dog will enter a minute from now." In fact it's not ESP--truth is, I'm sneaking looks at the dream's script, which lies under the experience of the dream. It's a stretch to do it, but I'm reading a few lines ahead!

Aaaand here they come... Tween-age girl and big shaggy black dog.

Now I'm helping my sister Althea lay out & rearrange the panels I drew of a comic telling a recent dream I had of a dog- or wolf-taur girl--she looked like a blend of that girl and dog who just walked in! Ann-Marie of 'All Dogs Go To Heaven' as a dogtaur. Dream sketch by Wayan. Click to enlarge.

I cut out & move around sketches of characters, trying to get a smooth narrative AND a reasonable look on the page. First push them around on an art pad, and when we get a pleasing layout, pin them to a wall and ask for feedback.

Most of my uncertainty's about the last panel, as Wolftaur Girl leaves--all the variants show her hindquarters and tail, but they vary: some profile, some 3/4, some from rear; some with tail up, some not. From modest to her pussy peeking out a bit to showing her openly.

Emphasize her sexiness, or not? The dream did--I was strongly attracted to her--but may offend furryphobic readers while attracting but distracting furryphiles. A lot of viewers seem (whatever their sexual quirks) to assume sex means you can't be serious about anything else--it eclipses all else! I've heard amazing misinterpretations of previous dream art. When sex walks in, a lot of viewers just short-circuit.

So should I make her modest? But in the dream she definitely flirted, and I responded. Censoring the dream so as not to offend or distract some viewers denies all viewers any chance to see what the dream said; if I keep it explicit, at least observant open-minded viewers CAN see all the levels.

Here comes our teacher! He ignores the content and technique and the explicitness issue; he fusses over my title! "You gotta rename this Centaur!" he says. Huh? Oh. Because he's an experienced art teacher and is used to nudity in studios and in paintings, but never dreamt of any sort of centauroid--for him that element eclipses the rest, just as sex does for laymen.

But I've had lots of dreams of centauroids, like Centaur Quartet; this dream's theme wasn't 'taurs as such but self-censorship. I better repeat that; I knew it in the dream.

NOTES IN THE MORNING




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