Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Jayse

Jayse draws pictures of impossibly muscular young men having their male organs stretched and attacked by all manner of crushing and cutting devices and plants. Jayse carries on the genital punishment tradition of Falkon (see earlier A-Z article) but with extra explicitness. The examples included here are amongst the less alarming examples!

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The drawing style is very simple cartooning for the most part but cleanly done. The 'hero's' face is always the same, square jaw, blond hair, cute nose and sometimes a little stubble for extra manliness. The classic All American Jock in other words although he can take on the persona of a GI or astronaut, for example, to invoke additional fetish themes. His physique is muscleman plus, everything is enormous but roughly in proportion (by the standards of musclemen) – except for the male organs which are excessively gigantic ('Gargantuan Gonads' as Jayse terms them). This artistic device enables their punishment and destruction to be presented in graphic detail.

Jayse - Pushing the Final Inch

Sometimes the Jock is depicted as a body-builder using the gym machines to punish himself - as in 'Pushing the Final Inch'. There is sense of fond mockery of body obsessed athletes in this. This is made explicit in 'The Cruelest Cut of All' (not shown here), where a body-builder smugly preens himself in front of a mirror enhancing his erection by pulling on his own balls whilst, unnoticed behind, a hooded intruder has inserted a wicked pair of shears between his legs and is about to detach them.

More often the Jock is a captive. Jayse's favoured bondage position is 'the spread' with arms and legs stretched out as far as possible from the target area. Jayse spells out the worst nightmare consequences of that vulnerable position.Jayse - Neuron WhipsHis suspended arching bodies are both artistic and erotic. Neuron whips is successful both as an artistic composition as well as an invocation of the eroticism of pain. Generally the assailant is unseen except for those parts (hands, tendrils, tools etc) used for carrying out the attack. Jayse leaves no stone unturned (literally!) in seeking out new and horrific techniques for emasculating his victims who nevertheless meet their fate with serene expressions on their faces. They are usually permitted one last compensatory ejaculation to reassure us that it's not as bad as it looks and they're enjoying it - really.

These drawings are whimsical but quite vicious and disturbing....and yet surprisingly erotic if you can get past the initial shock. Jayse's work isn't great art but it's simple intensity is the undistilled essence of S&M erotica.

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See more at Jayse's blog (added April 2015).

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Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Jame

A fascinating artist with a well educated technique. His compositions show a central striking erotic image accompanied by (almost floating on top of) a collage-like assembly of characters, body fragments and objects which give clues to the situation we are watching. The backgrounds consist of busy, graphic patterns. Jame - The Painter (Detail)

The S&M story in his pictures is interesting and erotic, the spread eagled figure below would grace any dungeon scene and in other pictures he shows men suspended from cranes or being painted on their bodies by an unseen artist.

Jame - Firecracker

Although there is some use of shading the figures musculature is largely defined by simple, inked, spidery lines, sometimes completely surrounding the muscle group. like a contour on a map or a boundary, rather than showing a shadow which would highlight it's 3-Dimensional shape. The detail also extends to showing veins and bones in hands etc.

The overall effect is reminiscent of 1980's magazine cartoons (Bill Ward, 'King'). The faces and poses of his supporting characters in Firecracker, however, seem to hark back to the1960's when young men were often presented in slightly feminine terms with juicy, smiling lips, lush eyelashes and exaggerated cheeks. This portrayal doesn't quite gel with the central S&M image which is not caricatured in the same way. Perhaps it's simply showing how times have changed. For me the combination of this odd collection of characters with the dubious firecracker joke is a bit spooky.

I'm not sure that the self-consciously arty style enhances the immediate erotic impact, but these pictures do repay study and fuel the imagination, which perhaps is a greater achievement.

Sorry no link info, but his pictures turn up at GMBA from time to time (link in sidebar)

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Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Art - Jakal

Jakal provided a number of illustrations for the Drummer magazine in the 80's and blurry copies of them circulate on the internet. He illustrated typical S&M pastimes. bondage, violation etc but placed them in romantic dungeon settings so they seem more serious and less like role-play

Jakal - Unbuttoned

His men look like real people with exceptional but not unbelievable physiques. The shading of muscles and shapes (above) shows photographic influences but the diagonal shading of the man's jeans suggests a training in graphics..

Jakal - Drilling

In 'Drilling' the portrayal of the male figure in action is very convincing, the head is particularly well drawn and there is a strong sense of the subject's forceful purpose. The erotically sagging jeans work well too. 
 

Jakal - Whipmaster

Whipmaster is the most romantic of these three with elaborate costuming and a medieval background. The detailing of veins and hairy arms is amazing. But the triumph of this picture is the overwhelming sense of coiled power about to be unleashed, conveyed through the dramatic (and tricky) foreshortened pose.

Jakal is no mean artist and he occupies an interesting niche in between real world S&M and fantasy. 

(Images decensored Nov 2015) 

Sorry no link info, but his pictures turn up at GMBA from time to time (link in sidebar)

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Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Jahi (aka Yuni)

A good deal of Jahi's (aka Yuni) fetish output depicts very young looking boys (in the traditional Japanese comic style) disguised as elf-like creatures - an immediate turn off for me. Which is very sad because his depictions of extreme bondage are highly original and score well on my personal fetish meter.

Jahi - Airplane Bondage

You can see from the example here (where the age of the creature is not readily apparent) how he exaggerates the flexing of the contorted body to great erotic effect. This pose is virtually impossible (for a human anyway!) but succeeds in convincing the eye. The soft rendering of muscle contours and skin folds is combined with a lush colour palette to create a very alluring image.

More images (mostly non-fetish but with more contortions) can be seen at his gallery Jahi aka Yuni

Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - JAD

JAD - GI Torture

JAD draws scenes of captives being tortured in gruesome ways like the electro technique being practised on a captured GI in the example (detail) shown here. His best known picture is probably the muleskinner spread-eagled between two upright posts, spiked with thorns and roasted above a fire.

JAD's output is not large as far as I know, but I couldn't ignore the 'full on' S&M subject matter. His technique is unsophisticated in a way, but shows a knowledge of anatomy and perspective and the faintly drawn background for example creates depth. Despite the slightly overwhelming detail the picture works.

Sorry no link info, but his pictures turn up a GMBA from time to time (link in sidebar)

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Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - Jack

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'Drought' (below) shows the style of this artist which sits between cartoon and realism. The result is attractive, the little areas of detail like the crotch of the jeans for example have a realistic feel but are economically drawn.

Jack - Drought

I have some doubts about the attributions to this artist as I have seen his signature on a picture attributed to artist named Kamui or something similar – it could be one and the same person. Anyway, I only have one fetish image by him but it is so iconic so I feel I must include it in this survey.

Jack - Hooded Captors

There are many fetish allusions in this picture but it's the menacing black hoods that make it so striking. The captives golden blond hair should suggest a contrasting innocence but his massive muscularity dilutes that effect and there isn't much sense of struggle in the poses of the protagonists.

There's a bit of a 'Tom' effect here (Tom of Finland made impossible poses into an art form!). The captive is crouching on his knees whilst the guards are standing. Their mating would be impossible but the artist does a good job at deceiving the eye. The chains (which look a bit of an afterthought) confuse the perspective somewhat (and they are not actually restraining the captive!). Carping aside, the quality of the figure drawing is good and the level of detail excellent. The overall composition works extremely well.

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Mitchell's A-Z of Fetish Artists - The Letter 'J'

Mitchell's survey of fetish artists continues with the letter 'J'. There are lots of very interesting Artists in this group including important names like Jakal, Joe T, Jonathan and Jotto. To start with though a couple of fringe examples:-

Johansson - Wrestlers
Not really a fetish artist but I've included this picture (which is a vaguely fetish subject) simply because it's good. The technical credentials of the artist speak for themselves.

Jeeprat - Plaything
I don't have a lot of work by this artist but I like the subject matter of the example included (above) and the technique is pretty interesting too. The highlighting and speckled texturing looks as though it is inspired by photo manipulation techniques but I think it is more than just a manipulation.

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