Pieces and pieces

 

This is mainly me toying with photo programs.
- William Dreimann

Arts and Programs: No I don't mean classes or social programs.

     Creativity comes in many forms from simple design to manipulation of the senses to create a world. I tend to put things on hold to come back to a feeling or put the right emotion to my work. If I start an image happy I want to be happy drawing and putting together the image. Yet I found that creating a world requires more emotions. Yeah I've been playing with RPG Maker VX Ace. Maybe it's that I can build a character based world and let it grow or maybe that it's giving me inspiration for Wonderland United, but I am loving this odd little program. It's like a gaming world photoshop. If I could combine the two RPG Maker and Photoshop it would be most amazing.
     I find my creativity is based on worlds and thoughts that I can't say aloud. A fine line of my sexual needs, a taste of the obscure and things that appeal to my eye. Thus I keep looking for more ways to express my thoughts in some new way. To be honest between the gaming creation and my love of sick and twisted. I'm finding it quite mentally stimulating. (yes I am in dire need of a job, but until I can get one to come through for me..... creating will do) I've been browsing Deviant Art looking for inspiration and almost everything that inspires me I find being a mixture of fantasy and well..... sitting on the edge of "Really Really WRONG!!!". No I'm not saying the artists that are doing these pieces are wrong or crossing a line, but I'm trying to find that line where things meet that mixture of Mature and Obscene. Example: I like seeing many of the old style art and sculptures and photographs but in the same aspect I like the newer style of photo realism and Nudes. A lot of the world I build and create I try to keep PG on the surface and subtle hints or blatant expressions of X rated material within. I'm not trying to make things obviously wrong or sick, but life isn't obviously wrong or sick just filled with things that catch our eye and if you understand the sick and twisted this just catches your eye.
     I think I'm trying to over explain here. Maybe it's the need of an audience or maybe it's that I need to create. I'll let my art continue to do the speaking and you the reader can express your opinions.
- William Dreimann

Come inside my world ......

     Madness is a curse and a gift. Some of you whom know me may realize that some of the weird and unusual thoughts that mix into my artwork are just momentary impulses mixed with a feeling of need to push the envelope so to speak. I rather wish I suffered from Genius Syndrome rather than some of the basic madness that stands before me now. Yet such is my life and such is my art. I have been working on drawings and weird concepts in my head. Yes that facebook post will be put into effect at some point. (if you need to question this think scissors, a leash and jello) I'm falling to far inside my own head to make a whole lot of sense. It's funny that I find this to be comforting yet others seem to see this as my own personal hell.
       I question my own well being at moments be it my views or thoughts or that I do hold a suicidal past that occasionally eeks it's face out at me and tempts my very nature. Don't take me wrong folks I'm not feeling suicidal, but that part of me is there and well sometimes likes to dance on my art and things of that nature. I have my moments, we all do, of depression and doubt. Yet I still stand and to be honest people are here to help me stand. So with that I'm quite honored to be who I am. My art helps clear some of the painful thoughts from my head and leads me to ask lots of questions. So with that I shall return to my work.
- William Dreimann

More and more of my sick twisted mind being put to pixel

     Is what I do art??? that is my question for the day. I think so, but I'm partial to the work I do. It never turns out as I see it in my head, but what ever truly does. What I'm actually asking here people is "Is this Art to you?" many would question or wonder about it. I personally love the fact that I have gotten followers on Deviant art and even the fact that this blog has several viewers. Probably a lot of them I know personally, but it's a start. I have an eye for the mad and the insane and truly wish to have something great come from this art that I produce, hell even negative feedback is good publicity. So take a moment and ask yourself is what I do art? If you're not sure ask a friend and share my oddities and comment if you please. I promise to hold no direct grudges.
- William Dreimann.

Painted Madness

Kind of a quickie piece update. Nothing spectacular.
- William Dreimann

The quest of Art

     I was looking around online for images to toy with for some of my photoshop collage work, and found that well the internet is just one giant distraction after the next. Now I know this is a truth that many will go "DUH" and act like I'm dumb or something. But here is an example of what I'm talking about:

      I looked up "Angel Wing" thinking I'd find something white with some feathers in google images and well got PORN. I thought about it and ok I can sorta see this path on how they got to porn so I decided to look something else up like.... "Religious Idols" just to see if there were things for me to work with and got well...... A very nice set of boobs and then lots of porn... Now being male and such this is a bit distracting so I decided to play with the filter thinking I was leaving things too loose. I looked up "Leather patches" keeping the filter looking for some more direct and hoping to get an image of leather patches to play with the texture and got leather which was great then quickly it switched over to you guessed it BOOBIES.

     Now I'll be completely honest I like looking at nudes and porn and stuff but I do recall a point where google images was not trying to force me to look at porn and would lead me to things like shops and things of this nature. Which was distracting but workable. I find it hard to be creative when the internet is calling me to porn..... and not just simple porn... good porn.
     This rant may seem comical to some of you, but this lead me to a separate thought. Parents tell their kids and so do teachers to google shit a lot. How much porn do you think you're kids have seen???
- William Dreimann

A sketchy sort of post

     Figured it's time to show off some of my sketchwork that I've been doing. So here they are in no particular order. (p.s. this isn't everything I have in progress so if you're not seeing something it may be in my to work on folder)

First up something most recent somewhat of a collage/tag page as I've had many series of sketches this is kind of a unity of them. 

Pencil work of the Mad Hatter for Wonderland United 

Some of the Alice Pencil and ink work the pencil work is quite light but the pen work is going slow for this one. don't know why this one went sideways. 

Another piece of Sanity Lost Series still in the works. 

Before photoshop regained my attention madness worked like this. 

A Wonderland piece I did over a year ago.... it's kind of at a standstill as I lost my inspiration. 

Something someone had asked me to work on that never got finished for some reason. 

My Rendition of the Red Queen Done over a year ago before Wonderland United has some what of the American McGee aspect to it. I'm thinking of finishing it and translating it to Wonderland united. Although I never can get a face to look good unless it's deformed. 

Somewhat of a piece of my own personal hell. 

A piece done for the Asylum Series. I never got the time to finish the touch ups on some of the detail.

     Now I know some of this looks like crap and didn't transfer well but my camera can only do so much. I'm working on getting my scanner up and running and digging out some of the more in depth work from way back.

- William Dreimann

Transition piece

     I was toying with photoshop and decided to see how well I could mix colors using simply 3 tools and came up with this unique transition which I'd like to show here.

This is the original piece.

It's a mixture of colors that I slammed around and gave this weird feeling that I liked as you can sort of get the feeling of an orb in the mess.

Phase 2

I was mixing more and adding darkness and light and this was holding a mood for me . Thus I wanted to continue further  

Phase 3

It started to look like a precious mineral or stained glass and I'll admit I felt elated and continued to proceed with the mixing and lighting. 

Phase 4

 Suddenly it started going dark and almost a deformed metallic grew in this world

Phase 5

I decided to add more color to give it a flare. Which added a bit of form and brightness to my darkening world of madness. 

Phase 6 final

It grew dark yet again and almost started to grow completely black. I decided to at this point to end the mixture as it was growing completely dark.

- William Dreimann

Some cracks have formed in my brain.

 

I've been lost in thought lately, it's as if the words are not there to leave my mouth. I'm feeling rather Irritated overall. Irritated over what I'm not exactly sure. It's like there is a bundle of wires in my head that keep shooting impulses, but I can't seem to see what it's telling me to do. I get this aggressive gut feeling and it just won't leave. As we can see it's affecting my art and my thoughts.

     I feel there is something I'm not seeing going on. I wish I knew what it was.....

Anyway on to the deeper parts of my current post. There have been some changes to my aspects and well I've been toying with other approaches as my Wonderland United Project is going, but not going well. I'm getting stumped when it comes to some of the character design and well I'm trying to find a way to put the images in my head to paper. I got some pencil linework done which I'll be posting pics of at a later point. Hopefully this fog clears and I am able to reflect my thoughts properly soon.

This seems kinda femish, but I liked the heart design and figured it fit my WU scheme. Well we'll see where it goes.

- William Dreimann

Some more madness for the masses.

     I'd like to say that some of the chaos represented here has meaning to me, a lot of it does but not in the traditional way. Some of it is a reflection of feeling and others are me having fun. Sometimes it's as simple as the piece appears to be.
- William Dreimann

Something a bit different.

     I'd like to say there is some great depth to these pieces, which there isn't. They are reflections and well shadows of the inner workings of my mind that is all. maybe it means I'm psychotic or maybe just creative. I love doing my weird twisted art that is all.
- William Dreimann.

Relics and oddities of Wonderland United

      Some more musing moments have hit me in my wonderland. I'd like to say there is innocence to the pieces, but we all know me better than that.
- William Dreimann.

More from Wonderland United:

     So I've been toying with my wonderland and mixing in a twist of my madness and some of the thoughts that cross my mind when you think wonderland. I'm still working on character sheets and on what exactly the darkness on the horizon is. I will give you a hint of what is causing the rift and it's something we all go through at one point. That is more than enough of my inspiration to get you thinking. Please feel free to speculate. Also to see more and read more feel free to visit my Deviant Art Page once this has reached it's Peak I'm planning on opening a gallery to the right.
- William Dreimann