joe randel's art dump

Thought I’d post up a bit of a tease pic from the Tinkerbell folio I’m doing up.  This pic is actually done, but I like the rough and thought I’d put a bit of it up to share (no peeking though… sorry ^_^).  If people are wondering about why her hair isn’t in her typical bun, it’s because in the Tinkerbell CG movie she arrives in Pixie Hollow wearing a milk seed dress and her hair is down like this… and she looks super cute.  I thought it might be cool to do a pic of her like that.  Any thoughts?

After I did up my Random pixel art, I wanted to jump in to another one.  So I’ve been chipping away at this one.  I really want to do more with Ping and Pong and this seemed like the perfect time to do so.  I think they look totally adorable in pixel form.  Not sure if girls really do this… compare boob sizes (with no undies on), but in my mind they do!  Pong doesn’t look too impressed. ^_^

Someone just passed this to me and I thought it was pretty interesting and worth a posting.  I like this info graphic  type things.  They’re fun and informative.  I’m not sure how accurate the info is in these things, but at most they’re good for some discussion on the validity of the facts at hand.

Thank you to Matthew over at Asian Amour for the image.

Asian Amour

Only in Japan would a company make, not only a fleshlight type toy that can plug in to your computer, but it can also tweet how much you use it.  Adult game studio Tech Arts 3D has developed what they call the Onacon and it can apparently keep track of how much you use it, how long you use it for and your average speed.  Then if you want, it can post your “play stats” on to your twitter a social networking site.  I wonder if you can get achievements when you use it?

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Ta dah!  What’s this you ask?  Why just some random pixels.  Actually, this here is represents what I do for a career.  No, not sexy pictures (well, that too I guess).  I push pixels and I’ve been doing so for about 10 years.  Oh sure, I can paint and illustrate too, but my true love is old school graphics.   I’ve never done a pixel illustration for my blog, so I thought it might be fun to try it out.  I think my random squirrel came out pretty adorable.  I might just have to try others too.  I think Ping and Pong would look so cute like this.

One thing that I don’t have though is a pixel  blog/site.  I know there are other pixel artists that have galleries (Paul Robertson, Kenneth Fejer), but I never felt compelled to so the same and reach pixel fame on the internet.  All my pixels can only been seen in the games I’ve made.  Oh, and just so everyone knows, this image here is scaled up 200% so you can see it better.  Here it is at it’s original size.

I keep a survival kit on my desk.  What is this kit called?

So I’m announcing this here and now so that it might kick me in the ass to work on it more.  I’m putting together an art portfolio of Tink and her fairy friends getting messy, messy messy.  It’s been on my mind for quite some time now and I figure that if I say something public about it I just get around to working on it more.  This is actually one of many ideas that I have for art folios.  This one would just be a nice collection of art but others are comics.

• Fairy Facials (in production)
• Chipmunks and Chipettes (comic)
• Ping and Pong (comic)
• City Mouse and Country Mouse (comic)

Not sure when I’ll get around to all of these but I guess it’s good to have ideas just kicking around.  I’ll probably tease more as things get done.  Enjoy. ^_^