Have you read the comics he works on in France you'd see that what he draws in those series is never gratuitous .
That doesn't prevent him from accepting commissions and for more male gazy shit .
Then again that's not all he draws and he is one of the few out there to draw :
Muscular woman and make them look beautifull and competent
When he does draw sex scenes with nudes the ladies and dudes come with pubic and armpit hair and don't look like underage lolis and shotas
He is unafraid to draw BBW in a sexy or non sexy context and make them look beautifull and positively depicts them
He draws gay scenes , and male nudes in a far better way than most of the garbage out there.
Lastly he grows tired of his image of "the best adult cartoonist out there who can draw big bellied big boobied women in the nude"
An example ? sure on inky (an artist type twitter france ip locked )
His wife : Honey can you draw me Zarya hugging Mei please ?
Balak : Why ?
His wife : Because Mei needs a Zarya hug .
Balak : That's it ? No more context ? I can do what I want ?
His wife : Yup carte blanche dude
Two hours later
Balak : Happy ?
His wife : I feel better , because now I know YOU ARE ! Have a good rest of the day at work baby :)
Oh yeah my post's intention wasn't to say 'nah it's not worth exploring because he's already working on that one series'. Sorry if it weren't clear.
Trust me I know you didn't mean it that way I just wanted to precise that there is a stark difference between what he is paid to draw and what he wants to draw especially lately . Shame that inky doesn't open up to more countries because seriously the conversation he's having on it just goes to show that he is just dying to work on a project that is LGBT romance (an adult one preferably ) where there would be no sex scenes at all . Like he just wanna draws hugs and kisses and dates between queer characters that he would be asked to draw .
Hell last week he striaght up said that he had more fun drawing and animating Alex than Blaze in Streets of Rage 4
