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THE ARTIST
GARY
ROBERTS is an artist/illustrator with a lifetime of experience.
And we don't mean just in art. Born
on 22 Feb. 1955 in Hialeah, Florida, USA to mother Carole Anne and
father Earl Phillips, he was adopted by his grandparents and given the
name Roberts. Artistic
ability runs in both families, as both his mother and grandfather could
paint both portrait and commercial work.
But Gary is the only one to pursue this talent on a professional
level. He
has had little or no formal art education but for a brief attendance at
the University of Miami Art School when he was in the third grade. His talent was clearly visible by this time. But
all of his styles and techniques are totally self-taught. Gary
Roberts has led an interesting life.
As a teenager, three things dominated his attention: Teenage
girls, hard rock guitar, and motocross motorcycle racing.
All three were pursued with reckless abandon. His rock guitar playing led to many bands and much travel
over the next 25 years, but the elusive hit record never materialized
and that dream fell aside. Motocross
led into drag racing and fast street motorcycles, and ultimately road
racing. To
this day he keeps a garage full of vintage Japanese motorcycles from the
'70s. In
the '80s, his attentions and creativity turned to film and video, and
began his career as a professional artist.
Doing storyboards and key scene illustrations for directors, set
designs, and hands on art directing several feature films and music
videos honed his skills. He
has generated art and sets from notebook size to the sides of trucks and
buildings. One
thing was in the background, however, all this time.
Erotic Art. Bondage.
Roberts has always drawn young pretty girls in bondage and rape
scenes. Quite litterally,
since he knew what girls were. But
it has only been since the early '90s that he decided to unveil the real
inner self. His first works
in this genre appeared in publications by Bon-Vue, followed by a comic
series in Goddess Dianna Vesta's "Attitude" magazine and
several story illustrations in the BDSM swinger mag "Get
Kinky". At this same
time, he decided to apply his film and video experience to bondage, and
worked with "Scarry Video" for a year, shooting several videos
and even starring as a home invader in one. Limited
success in these ventures led to a retreat from art for several years,
in which time he pursued motorcycle roadracing and his personal BDSM
lifestyle while working as a high performance motorcycle tech.
October
1999 changed everything. Roberts
buys his first computer and gets online. He discovers the open forum of
newsgroups. He decides to
post his bondage art on the web, and response is overwhelming. As they say, the rest is history. Roberts draws BDSM scenes and comics for prestigious
magazines like FANSADOX and sites like dofantasy.com and BDSMartwork.com
and his own site DarkStarProds.com.
It is now a full-timecareer.
ROBERTS draws exactly what turns him on, and he knows that others with his same fetish will be equally aroused. ROBERTS can work in virtually any medium including sculpture, and can paint on any size canvass you could imagine. He is planning to branch out to art shows and erotic exhibitions soon, and has plans in the works for several large projects to be announced. Roberts-Comics.com is without any doubt the first of them. The webmaster |
