Thanks, Daniele! Hey, I had no idea who Alex Verenne was, but I'm just looking at some of his works, and love them! One of the first jobs I've got to do was actually inking porn comics (they were bad, by the way, but I needed the cash ), and I remember that the art direction from the editor was exactly the same that I've heard from someone else, years later, when making some work intended for children: no heavy blacks, not much shadows, thin lines... it felt like the opposite to most of my drawings.
Ahaha, what you said about the same art direction between porn comics and children illustrations is a jewel! I loved it! I guess it might be because both of them focus on a single layer of narration, and don't care about the rest?
Well, I don't really know, Daniele-- in my experience, since I did both for monetary reasons only instead of a personal interest, I see it simply as in porn they had that direction because I guess almost all porn (if not all...) tends to be explicit so they didn't want anything dark in it, and when it came to children illustration work, they had the same direction because they probably thought that anything "dark" would scare children, or something... I understand it more for porn, but seeing some stuff intended for children, like Disney's films, some of them I always thought that they had a pretty creepy thing to them... and anyways, thinking about the stuff that I liked as kid, I preferred stuff like Tim Burton's movies over... I don't know, some very clean drawn and brightly colored cartoons, so I think it's relative... as long as the client was happy with the work, that was it for me, and I didn't spend much time thinking about the reasons why they wanted things to be that way, but I think it was only because of those reasons I mentioned above.
* Yes, another erotic author. Well, I think your brushstrokes are very sexy