Hey, Isabella Price here. Don't worry, I'm not going to cause a fuss or anything about this thread (or...maybe that's what you want, haha), but I did want to pop in and clear up a few things for whatever it's worth.
The Operation drawing was in no way meant to be sexual at all. In fact, it was a Christmas card I did for my family and three year old nephew. Cavity Sam is always pictured in his underwear (or nude, in the first Operation), so I wanted to stay true to the character. I actually gave him more clothes than he normally has, haha. Some of playboard art on the actual games are more "obscene" than my drawing, like this one with his lovingly rendered man boobs...
http://i.imgur.com/HLatGSC.jpg
The Mac Tonight pony posted in a comment was meant to poke fun at people who draw everything they can think of as ponies. It was meant to be funny, not serious. I'm not much of a MLP fan aside from thinking they're cute.
I do have a job. I have a very awesome job (to me, at least) working with animatronics, arcade design and construction, along with advertising and merchandising. I also build puppets, plush, costumes and other things to sell. Along with buying/selling collectibles, which isn't so much a job as it is a hobby, but it still brings in cash.
I have spent a lot of money on collectibles and costumes throughout the years, but not as much as comments here make it seem. My Mac Tonight costume was $1250 (that's for the head, jacket, shirt, gloves and pants used in original advertising), my Chuck E. Cheese costume was $200 (head, shirt, gloves), the U-Pick Live Cow was $300 (for a screen-used costume from Nickelodeon), my Noid costume was $600 and I built the Hamburglar costume. The Tumblr asks linked here are me talking about an outrageously overpriced Mac Tonight mask that was on eBay for almost 2k (they usually sell for $500) that everyone and their mother kept sending me a link to. The other asks are people asking me how much my costume-making services cost, not the other way around.
My interest in mascots is not a sexual thing, and 99.9% of my mascot fanart is clean. I think I've drawn maybe...5 adult drawings of Mac Tonight in my entire life, because yes, I find him attractive. I don't really have an answer to why I find him attractive, or even like him as a character. I guess it's just a combination of design aspects that make me really like him, such as his voice, his Wayfarers, clothing, that he plays a piano, that his commercials generally take place in a city, he drives a really cool classic convertible, and his head is a crescent moon. These are all things I like, so I guess rolling them all up into a character just really intrigues me. It doesn't help that "Mack the Knife" has been one of my favorite songs for as long as I can remember.
I've been interested in mascots and advertising since I was a kid. I've met tons of people who are interested in it too and have similar collections. I never knew it to be "weird" until I got involved on FA, DA, Tumblr, etc. and people started laughing at me. But I think it's a harmless, fun interest and I've gotten to meet some very cool people through it, like the creator of Mac Tonight, Warren Dotz (one of, if not the most, famous advertising author/collector), Chris Hill (actor, voice of Mr. Munch from Chuck E. Cheese) and tons of other cool people.
And collecting is super fun. It's a fun challenge to complete collections, anxiously waiting for the mailman and refreshing the tracking number. It's like celebrating a non-stop birthday haha. I love being surrounded by things that I enjoy and things that inspire me, which is why my bedroom is a massive cluster of 80's and 90's pop culture/advertising.
I'm sorry that you guys think my art and story of Billie Jean (who is a non-species specific critter, not a dog) and Mac is awful. It was never intended to be taken seriously like my original stories (as in, ones that don't involve existing characters), it's just a fun thing to cheer me up. But people like to read into it like it's my life's work, haha.
I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about. I only uploaded a single chapter of that story and that chapter, as well of the rest of the story, is 100% non-sexual.
Anyway, I guess that's all I wanted to say!