proofs so many proofs

     I've been trying to sort my work by creating proof pages. Basically a collage of the same image redone several different ways till I find the one I like. Then I break it down into groupings of ones I like and sort out ones that just don't do it for me.... IE something is off or just doesn't blend well or thousands of other ideas. I was going to break some of it down for you here and give you a taste of what I tend to look at , but felt that there was too much and since this is not a live action detail you may or may not be able to follow with what I'm explaining. So I decided to go simple and give you a few images and do a moch proofing.

For argument and an example lets use this mix...... Yes that is me.

Now the program I used to make the proof did not do a fair job of keeping the images level. As you can see some of my face are up higher and others were dropped lower. but these 9 are a grouping I'd look at.

The center one of all is faded. I'm not sure what happened color wise there but this would be a direct pull where I would return to the others I've made of this image and try to find one where the color is stronger. Top right is ok, but it's a bit off with my printing of Demon across the forehead. so I would probably rethink that one. Then from there I'd sort it down to which reverberate with me better. I tend to prefer red and purple color wise as it does give a variation and make images pop. Now much of this is before I got into a pop art style where I learned it works best with a 3 color palette so you have lights darks and accent. lets give an example here.

Now where it pops a bit more and on some you can see where I extended the palette. 

Also they look 1000x better than previous images.

now this is just a taste of what runs through my head before I post images and/or set them for sale. 

-Jebus

No longer phased by sexuality or nudity.

It may be due to my boredom with pop art programs or my years of looking for images for collages but I'm noticing that I have less and less of a nervousness about nudity or sexuality. I'm no longer worried about sharing or creating images that a part of me used to say was too much or a bit too risque..... Is this bad?
Let me share here a few pieces of recent and not too long ago to dictate my point. (and yes t shirts can be found on my redbubble page)

A bit blatant no? I'll be honest, I was feeling a bit artistic and a bit horny. This is the outcome.

The O face:
I liked an image I saw online about tricks for going down on women this was more artsy and I liked the way this image manipulated

This one is a bit more subtle, but it really spoke to me

one of my favorite parts of foreplay and one hell of an image.

This is for contrast on how I thought way back

bland, but was a bit more of a perk

I love this with the pop art style I was going for this came out beautifully

pop/burlesque

I tried to censor this a bit for Red Bubble, but still has a wonderful flare to it

nothing much to say here

This is where it gets a bit weird, but that is what happens when you look for porn at 2 am

This worked for me and it just seemed to be luck

a bit more toned down, but was playing with programs that created fractals and it mixed well

more of a mute piece, but as you can see I have desires.

Maybe it's my choices of art or images that draw me in when I'm feeling a bit sexually frustrated.

- Jebus

A look into some of the madness.

     I like to run with ideas just to see where they go sometimes. As I have been posting some of the flawed or just broken ideas as of late I figured I'd show some more of what you don't see and some of what just really runs through when I do pop and other types of art.

Testing of many different filters.

So yes I went pop and glitch styling here. There is a throwback to older tech an offset and well simplicity.

Too much:

Tried to stay somewhat monochromatic. Too many over layers which gives it a nice effect, but seriously you lose some of the wow factor.

Too simple
Went classic pop here, but it was too newspapery. It's still got a wow, but looks more like a cut out.

Sometimes things just don't reflect right.
I go through a ton of pics and alot of times it just feels messy or loses some of the focus I had when I looked at the original photo.

This works on a level, but I couldn't blend it the way I wanted so it got stuck here.

lost detail.
This still holds some of it's hot and sex appeal, but some of the shading was lost in the pop transition so it feels off.

doodle and boredom.
yeah it's hard to stay focused on what your point is when you  feel the need to do bizarre lettering and just can't stay on your subject.

Self manipulation:

So before you can make something or express something you have to see how it will work. I've decided the best test subject for this is Me. So yeah lots of pics of my ugly mug that end up like this.

or this.....

like this ....

like this

yep

see the point?

And well then I proof by collage I put a bunch of the filtered and mixed images together and sometimes I like it other times well.

I go crazy and try to animate or give a pop art performance of what stuck. for this it was that I had a bunch of photos with a purple hue.

Shading and lighting sometimes give me headaches.

Something that seems like a good idea , but gets an odd wash

Or looks like the aftermath 

or you get a proofing of a proofing within a proofing or what I like to call why dear god why did someone leave me unsupervised.

-Jebus

Some more of the messed up or just didn't pop for me.

Art is Dead
Negative and Pornographic
So what I was going for here was almost an expression of my distaste with some of my works. I was liking where this was going to start and by the end it was lacking.my focus was lost from the art that was to a porn shot inception. I went too far with filters and trying to express the lost art in porn and beauty that this just tanked.

Guardian Down.
This was all due to bad alignment. I still have the positives for this, so some good will come of it. But year I ended up decapitating the focus.

Pussy
I was trying an Andy Warhol approach with a porn substitute.... I like the end result, but I can't see anyone wanting this on a t-shirt or hanging this in their home so if falls here. As Facebook would ban me in a second upon seeing this.I may take a second approach like this with a twist to find what I was looking for in this piece. 

Suckling

Similar happened here, I found something that worked, but fell just on the wrong side of the line for me. 

These ......

I would so break down each one for you , but this is what happens when I get bored. some are really beautiful color wise and I may even put these to shirts, I just have to forget what is mixed in here so I can have a different perspective as I can still see parts and I don't know if what I am recalling can be seen by others.

- Jebus

Attempting to tie this all together.

     I've been on leave lately from art as well I was doing the same thing over and over and not feeling anything from my work. It was a version of madness I have not experienced in quite a while. Overall I felt sickly and just kept feeling like my works were poison. I am back after toying with some new ideas and feeling a surge of bliss creating. Most of these have been added to my Redbubble page (link below or to the side). So some of which I did not feel were publicly acceptable but still felt they portrayed some of my emotion those I've saved for here.

The Broken Sex
I felt this was too vulgar for a T-shirt or sale item and just too harsh for some of my other venues. Yet I feel this gives a fair feeling of the off I feel about sexuality. Don't get me wrong I love sex and do not have a hatred of women, but I feel for guys we see sex now as we once saw religion. This is almost any guys crucifix.

Twisted

I was attempting to remake an image I had done in pop art, but it just blended wrong and it works here, but I feel it lost some of it's original staying power.

The Lion Pop
Lions having sex done pop art style.
I was going for a violent Virility and it just did not vibe

Demon Sex
Again did not transfer or vibe

Apocalyptic Pop

The colors worked yet in trying to go dismal and dark for what I was trying to get across it muted and just did not thrive.

Wine Tits Pop
I was going for an alcohol fueled sex desire and it just didn't reflect what I wanted.

Prolapse Pop
This was a sick and twisted idea that originally started strong and I felt could have evolved into something a bit more deep and artistic but it hit a lewd angle I just could not shake.

     So that's a taste of things recently. If you'd like to see the more safe and secure works. Check me out on Red bubble Jebus 13 I as well post occasionally be it cryptic on Facebook as William Jebus Dreimann. As well I'm on Deviant Art as Dreimann13. If you happen to visit or are a part of these communities and wish to say hi or give feedback please feel free. 

- Jebus aka Artist and Madman