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Description INFLATION ART FAQ

What is inflation art
Basically a kind of art where a character is drawn as if he/she were bigger, through fattening, or inflating like an air balloon.

What kind of inflation art exists
There are a good number of different kind of art:
1 - The normal fat people art, that is not even considered inflation art, just art about larger people, the kind you find on the streets near your house.
2 - Weight gaining, where a thin character grows fat, or an already fat character grows even fatter.
3 - Inflation, where the character actually blows up like an air balloon, and that style has several variations: expansion of specifics parts of the body, use or gas or liquids, and others.

The main question: Why you guys draw it?
Even among us, we don’t know exactly why we have this fascination. Some of us just likes the fat people, others like the look of an inflated person, in a comical way, others find it sexy, and a few others fantasize about growing themselves into butterballs, or hot air blimps. The only real answer is that its all about fantasy art.

Why you like fat women?
For the same reason everyone else likes skinny women.

Your art degrade women. You show them only as pin-ups, to satisfy your weird fantasies.
This is the most common line I see around. Well, for starters, there ARE women that are into this. Some of them are even artists! And a good portion of them draw inflation art, using men as their subjects.
And just to make it clear, I see a lot of "normal" artists making pin-ups, of both women and guys, especially the called Bishounen, in several degrading situations. Should I start to bitch about it?

You are sick, for liking those ridiculous things.
I think sick are those drawings about drugs (I saw a lot on DA), war, death, mutilations…

What you do is not art.
Lemme see… Lines… colors in some cases… forms, people, places… it transmits ideas… yep, its art alright. Unless some primary forces have changed, its still art, don’t matter how weird it is.

You do this weird stuff just for popularity.
You think I'd do this kind of stuff if I thought its disgusting for me? Be real.
I draw because I like. And I post it online, because I have friends that like this kind of stuff. Otherwise, I could just keep it for myself, and not show anyone.

You draw in that weird way because you don’t understand anatomy?
To tell the truth, it is very hard to make this kind of art. You need to know a lot about anatomy. Drawing a circle, and draw a face on top it easy. Make it look like a person, in an expanded way, is very complex. Just compare works of beginners and more experienced artists, and you'll see what I meant.
To make a long story short, we draw this way because we DO understand anatomy.

Okay, I understand if you think chubby people are cute, especially women with larger breasts and butts. But sometimes you guys draw a person so fat they can't move! And they shouldn't even be alive, even less look "cute" that way!
In one word: Fantasy! It's just for fun, a person that gains so much weight he/she can't walk. There's no real meaning for it. And if you say they shouldn't be alive/walking/be pretty, and all that stuff, remember its all about fantasy. We have giant monsters, super heroes, and others freaks on movie/comics/cartoons, but no one complain that they shouldn't exist.

Oh my god! You guys get turned on by this?
Yes. What is wrong with it? I mean, I see people getting turned on even by "normal" stuff. There's no telling what kind of art can turn a person on. I saw people getting turned on by images with blood and mutilation. It freaks me out, but I just don’t care for it.

What is it about WG (Weight Gaining)? Doesn't normal girls looks good for you? You need to force your definition of beauty over others?
Again, this is about fantasy. The idea of a girl gaining weight is just a thing we do for fun. Like a woman doing a "boob job" to have bigger breasts, and therefore be more beautiful, we work on the idea of a woman gaining weight all around the body. Same idea applies on the artists/writers that use it with male characters.

Okay, and what about inflation? What is the fun in a woman swelling like a balloon? That’s stupid!
Once again, is just something we do simply by fun. Some people fantasize about their partners growing a part of their bodies (or the whole body!) as if it were inflating with air (or water). Others have fantasies about themselves inflating into floating blimps. Why? No reason. Its just for fun. You can work on erotic stories about the feelings a person can have, turn the story into some kind of sport (like flying), have more violent stories where a person inflates against her/his will. There is not a real reason. And it shouldn't be taken so seriously.

If you like fat men/women, it means you don’t like the skinny ones?
Wrong. We never said we didn’t like them. Actually, many people I know that are into this stuff have skinny girlfriends/boyfriends.

You do this art because you are against society?
No. I couldn't care less for society. I'm not drawing a fatty girl to be different from others that draws only skinny girls. I draw it because I LIKE fat girls. Simply as that.

You go after fat girls because they have low self-esteem and would date any guy that says she's beautiful?
Once again, no. I don’t look for them because they are "easy", but because I do find them beautiful. I know many fat people that have high self-esteem, and I admire them.

You guys think you are best than us, for having an "open mind"?
No. I don’t think. Actually, I know some people inside this "community" that are very irritating, and are jerks to everyone. So I say we're not better, just different.

You think I should gain weight?
I was asked this more than once, and my answer is… no! Why, you ask? Because gaining weight is not a joke, it can harm your health. "But you said you like fat girls." Yes, I like. I find them beautiful. But gaining more weight than you already have is as dangerous as trying these "quick-result" diets to lose weight.
And believe me, I already got into arguments with people in this community about it. A guy even sent me a message calling me a loser cause I was not giving incentives for a girl to gain weight in a forum. I said she should not gain weight just to be "accepted" inside a group she hardly knows, and that guy got angry I was not trying to convince her to gain weight, and even called me a loser. Two days later, said girl complained how some guys just paid attention to her because she said she wanted to gain weight, that she felt used as an object, and never again went back to the forum. So, I'm the loser? That’s this kind of thing I try to avoid.

Alright. I do understand this thing turns you on, but I dont need to like it
Nopes, you dont need. We dont want you "normal" people to like it or even understand. We just want to be left alone. We meant really no harm to anyone.

This is a quick fad that invaded DA and will disappear anyway
Wrong. This thing has been around for many years, even before DA existed (4 years, right? I'm into this stuff at least 5-6 years now). We didnt meant to "invade" anything. We just wanted a place to post our works for our friends be able to see. We used to use places like Yahoo and MSN groups, but they have serious limitations, and DA works fine to making galleries and the feedback system is the best there is.

Well, there are other galleries like DA now. Why dont you leave and go to one of them?
I'd love to... but I have too many friend on DA, and since flammers started to annoy the inflation artists, I decided to stay just for spite.
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Comments: 916

dwarfpriest In reply to ??? [2018-09-08 06:27:54 +0000 UTC]

Agreed, some stuff those people do are pretty much abuse and creepy as heck to do in RL. Just like someone that would like to watch movies about war and adventure on TV suddenly want to pick up a gun and walk into the center of a city shooting people.
There'll have crazy people everywhere, related to any kind of topic.

As I said, fetishes are crazy, and most people wouldn't try to do something immoral and/or against the law, but there are crazy people out there killing each other over things like even politics or sport teams.

And yeah, even Tumblr made a blacklist filter, DA really should have one by now.

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AbsolemJackdaw [2018-05-28 15:56:21 +0000 UTC]

Okay, so, reading this, I realised I might have been on the wrong end of thinking it is wrong. 
I mean, everyone can like and draw what he wants. Art i already knew it was. 

I'm probably more into thinking now that these things should have sections, because when I visit deviant art , all(most all) I see on the front page 
are sexual fetishes. Which I do not come here for. 

So my point of being here was : I don't like all these drawn fetishes. But it turned into : 'okay, they are totally at the correct place. but i'd like them to be filtered out when i'm browsing deviant art'. 

what do you guys think (about the filtering idea in general) ? or does deviant art already have filters i'm not aware of ? 

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dwarfpriest In reply to AbsolemJackdaw [2018-05-30 17:55:53 +0000 UTC]

I actually agree 100% with you here. I wish DA would have, aside from the Mature tag, an Adult tag, where we could hide the more... lewd stuff. Unfortunatelly it would make people think that posting pure porn is ok. I already see friends posting plainly pornographics pieces with characters having sex, and dont seem to notice that DA is not a porn site. Heck, my stuff is very bordering softcore, but I try to avoid getting anything too extreme here.

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Deadthecup [2017-03-18 20:37:29 +0000 UTC]

I'm just hating on it because it's taking it's borders up into youtube and other famous internet websites, not because "OH THEY ARE DRAWING FAT GIRLS AND BLAH BLAH BLAH"
I'm a person with terrible animating skills and not so good "poster work" but i'd never go so far making a person quit their interest.
I sometimes to it IF the art is considered terrible, unworthy art, or even "cringey"
I'm not logged in deviant art a lot, which might (to some people) be a good thing but also a bad thing considering I have about 4 people interested in my progress.
I've wasted half a hour on this one comment and i'm gonna stop.
CIAO!   

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dwarfpriest In reply to Deadthecup [2018-05-30 17:59:42 +0000 UTC]

If you mean those "cringe" compilations. Meh, those are dumb anyway.
I dont know why I took so long to reply to this one, but good luck with your animation work, even tough you left months ago.

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Japanfan89 [2017-01-14 18:08:32 +0000 UTC]

Basically the reason why I love the inflation fetish (and other expansion stuff too), unless it involves certain girls of which I'll not explain (hopefully everyone understands).

I wish these haters would see the light and leave this fetish alone for once and try to focus on improving their own art, hopefully in 50 years from now, we'll see new fans and whatnot.

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dwarfpriest In reply to Japanfan89 [2017-01-15 02:02:23 +0000 UTC]

Hopefully. I think nowadays it's only a handful of people that get "offended" at seeing stuff they dont like, but most of these died out years ago.

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Japanfan89 In reply to dwarfpriest [2017-01-17 19:06:05 +0000 UTC]

Hmm! Guess this means we're off the hook.

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Spit-Fire233 [2016-11-23 14:44:13 +0000 UTC]

I like making inflation art, not because it "turns me on" or anything, it just makes me laugh and I think it's fun to draw

I wish that people who don't like inflation art would just pass our pictures by and ignore them, instead of clicking on them
and leaving rude, nasty and hateful comments

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dwarfpriest In reply to Spit-Fire233 [2016-11-24 18:58:16 +0000 UTC]

You know, people are only happy when they have something they dont like to complain about.
I mean, stupid people.

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Japanfan89 In reply to dwarfpriest [2017-01-14 18:05:51 +0000 UTC]

Which is almost about a good 30% portion of DA.

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dwarfpriest In reply to Japanfan89 [2017-01-15 02:03:05 +0000 UTC]

And I saw Tumblr. They take the cake. And I heard Twitter is worse.

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Japanfan89 In reply to dwarfpriest [2017-01-17 19:06:57 +0000 UTC]

Yet celebrities love to re-post expansion pics of the characters on said site and don't get flak for it.

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Ruiz-ARTS [2016-11-02 01:08:52 +0000 UTC]

Those kind of art are getting annoying nowadays I mean jeez!

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Ruiz-ARTS [2016-11-02 01:07:34 +0000 UTC]

Finally someone stood up about this trend!!

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dwarfpriest In reply to Ruiz-ARTS [2016-11-02 16:17:26 +0000 UTC]

Yeah.

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thetf2player1987 [2016-10-05 02:02:40 +0000 UTC]

PREACH!

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dwarfpriest In reply to thetf2player1987 [2016-10-08 02:28:22 +0000 UTC]

Amem brother

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thetf2player1987 In reply to dwarfpriest [2016-10-08 03:44:20 +0000 UTC]

TAKE ME TO CHURCH

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Imperator-Xolo [2016-09-02 03:46:41 +0000 UTC]

I abhor inflations to my bottom of that place in my body where my soul used to be. I won't insult you on how you feel about inflation drawings. 

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dwarfpriest In reply to Imperator-Xolo [2016-09-03 20:21:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for being understanding.

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Mr-Manchild [2016-07-10 03:46:56 +0000 UTC]

Flagged as Spam

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Mr-Manchild In reply to Mr-Manchild [2016-07-10 03:48:48 +0000 UTC]

And by the way IK I'm gonna get constantly harassed and told to KMS by people who jerk off to inflation.  Just another reason why I fucking hate the inflation community.

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Avatarandrew2 In reply to Mr-Manchild [2016-08-20 18:49:04 +0000 UTC]

Hidden by Commenter

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Mr-Manchild In reply to Avatarandrew2 [2016-08-21 12:55:38 +0000 UTC]

M8 I'm to retarded to read all that.

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Madame-Starlight [2016-06-11 19:32:15 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you can express your opinion on the subject without cursing everyone out or just acting like an immature kid in general about it, unlike some people I've encountered (lookin' at you, 4nifeFreek).

Truth be told, I got into BBW/SSBBW weight gain (I'm not sexually attracted to it, though, I just seem to think it's "cute") at a young age while browsing YouTube, and even though I may browse it on certain occasions, I try keeping the amount of WG on my account to a minimum. You did a good job at clearing some things up and I appreciate you taking some time out to explain the subject. I applaud you for your efforts.

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dwarfpriest In reply to Madame-Starlight [2016-06-12 22:16:13 +0000 UTC]

Thank you always happy to be of service. I tried to be as objective as my gramar at the time allowed, and threat it as a serious topic, instead of throwing just personal opinions. I think it does the work well, despite being hard to follow sometimes.

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ThatRandomDeviant [2016-01-09 00:37:43 +0000 UTC]

This answered a lot of my questions, I always wondered why I like inflation. And now I know why. My cousin kept asking why do I like it and I kept saying I don't know. But now I can answer his question and my own question.

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dwarfpriest In reply to ThatRandomDeviant [2016-01-09 01:04:53 +0000 UTC]

That's good

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befree2209 [2016-01-06 21:22:30 +0000 UTC]

I understand how you feel when people attack you.

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dwarfpriest In reply to befree2209 [2016-01-08 10:39:20 +0000 UTC]

Yeah.

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befree2209 In reply to dwarfpriest [2016-01-08 11:21:16 +0000 UTC]

I will never attack you.

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Max-Digital [2015-12-03 21:44:10 +0000 UTC]

Wow... Its kind of amazing to think you wrote this over a decade ago. Then it's kind of disappointing to look down and see that some things never change...

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dwarfpriest In reply to Max-Digital [2015-12-09 13:33:26 +0000 UTC]

War.. war never changes.
Damn, 10 years ago... and my English was so bad it hurts me to read it again.

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Max-Digital In reply to dwarfpriest [2015-12-09 14:12:27 +0000 UTC]

Huh... I didn't even notice that until just now. I guess anything would probably look a bit dated 10 years after it was made.

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Mariomatrix64 [2015-09-26 21:49:26 +0000 UTC]

You are a sick fuck

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dwarfpriest In reply to Mariomatrix64 [2015-12-09 13:32:33 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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Mariomatrix64 In reply to dwarfpriest [2015-12-09 23:01:34 +0000 UTC]

wat

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dwarfpriest In reply to Mariomatrix64 [2015-12-10 01:22:16 +0000 UTC]

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Mariomatrix64 In reply to dwarfpriest [2015-12-10 23:18:24 +0000 UTC]

ech

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ThatRandomDeviant In reply to Mariomatrix64 [2016-01-09 00:38:52 +0000 UTC]

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Orionnator In reply to Mariomatrix64 [2015-11-08 07:04:10 +0000 UTC]

Troll.

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Mariomatrix64 In reply to Orionnator [2015-11-11 23:05:44 +0000 UTC]

No, I mean it

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Orionnator In reply to Mariomatrix64 [2015-11-18 05:46:00 +0000 UTC]

Well, then, jerk sociopath with no tolerence for other's differences. Come on, which is it going to be?

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Mariomatrix64 In reply to Orionnator [2015-11-19 01:29:27 +0000 UTC]

what

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Orionnator In reply to Mariomatrix64 [2015-11-19 02:20:26 +0000 UTC]

The fact that you don't understand what I just said shows me that you really shouldn't be in this conversation.

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RainOverMyLifeInVain [2015-06-24 20:59:32 +0000 UTC]

I understand that people are into different things and they have the right to express themselves. I'm not meaning to sound rude when I say this but I wish there was something like a specific search button for inflation art (and not just inflation either, but also pregnancy art, muscle art, yaoi/yuri etc). I think having a specific search button to search for specific things will help people find what they're looking for without seeing art they don't want to see. I understand how I should just "not look if I don't like it" but I personally don't like how when I search for art of my favorite character and the results are mostly inflation. It's kind of hard to "not look" when there's quite a handful of art to scroll past before I find what I actually wanted to search for. Again, nothing against different styles of art, you do you; but I really think having the search engine be more specific will help for both sides. For example, I don't really want to see any fetish art (is that the right word for it?) unless I specifically type in "Insert-Character-Here Inflation" or "Insert-Character-Here Pregnant". I hope this made sense. I'm sorry if I offended anyone, I wasn't trying to. I was just expressing my opinion

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dwarfpriest In reply to RainOverMyLifeInVain [2015-12-09 13:32:03 +0000 UTC]

I agree, would be nice to have way to "tag" this kind of stuff so we could keep it out of the normal search, but if they added an "adult" option people would fill it with explicit porn.
But yes, I understand. I know these things are not for everyone. Thanks for your opinion.

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unknownvaultboy [2015-06-16 03:07:14 +0000 UTC]

I agree with the, "It's still art" thing. Remember The Persistence of Memor, what with melting clocks? That was still art.

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dwarfpriest In reply to unknownvaultboy [2015-06-16 12:30:14 +0000 UTC]

Haha, yeah. Some may not "get it", but that's what most art is, after all.

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