joe randel's art dump

This past weekend was my 13th wedding anniversary.  Yay me!  Normally my wife and I don’t exchange gifts, but this year we did for some reason.  I bought her a new piece of jewelry and she bought me Niel Gaiman’s new book and a 3 volume history of pin up books.  How awesome is that!  Receiving gifts isn’t high on my wife’s love list.  She prefers just spending time together, so I also took her out to a very nice, fancy, kid free dinner… which she loved.  Who says that the number 13 is unlucky? ^_^

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything here that resembled a finished pic, so I have here a new Pleasure Bon Bon fan art pic.  This pic was totally painted on my new Surface, which was a little more of a challenge then I would have thought.  I’m still adjusting to the new stylus and so it feels odd.  Oh, well… I remember having to adjust to my old tablet too.

I must admit, I’ve never been a member of Pleasure Bon Bon, but I do love the characters.  They’re so cute! ^_^ I really should find time later to do some more of them.

The other day I filled a page in my sketchbook full of horny girls.  Not quite what one would expect… but I sure had fun. ^_^

OhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygod!!!  Xseed is going to be porting over Senran Kagura (the boobie brawer) for North American shores.  It’ll be sold over Nintendo’s 3DS eShop and not in stores.  That’s fine by me, I will totally be buying this title day one.  Here’s the trailer for the English port.  Now I just need a larger SD card for my 3DS…

My old ASUS R1F tablet PC was on it’s last legs.  The hinge on it was busted, my AC adapter was shot, the battery only lasted 30 seconds and it was getting slower and slower as time went on.  I knew I would need something new, but I was hoping to make it last until after Christmas.  Sadly, that wasn’t going to happen.  So off to the store I go and purchase and new shiny Microsoft Surface Pro.  After doing a bunch of research on the tablet/PC hybrid, it seemed to be my best option.  Plus, lots of other artists in the art community seem to be giving it two thumbs up.

So far, things have been super nice with it.  It’s starts up super fast and my Photoshop loads extremely quick.  I did have to wrestle with it a bit to get going, but that seems a bit normal.  The Surface dose have a slightly different feel when it comes to drawing with the stylus.  That’s to be expected though, and if I’m brave enough I can make some adjustments to it… or I can just live with it.  We’ll have to wait and see.  A friend of mine also bought one two days after me, so we’re sort of comparing our experiences with it and using each other for tips and advice.  Now I don’t have to worry about my Tablet PC konking out and me losing a bunch of art at the same time.  That would have sucked huge balls.  I hope to have a pic to post from this new one toy soon so you can all judge if my work has changed at all, if any as I adjust to it.  Laters. ^_^

Hey crew, sorry I’ve been away for such a long time.  Here’s another Alice skirt lift to make it up.

So here’s why I haven’t been around as of late.  A member of my family suffers from a form of mental illness and last October they hit a rough patch.  We’ve been dealing with that since that time and to help out, my Mother comes over to help watch the kids.  Since I’m pretty sure my feminist, man hating Mom wouldn’t approve of my porns… it takes a back seat.  Early this summer, we seem to have the illness under control again which is good… but the crazy times don’t end there.  A friend of ours ended up leaving her jerk, ass husband and we offered her and her two kids our home to stay in during that transition.  So yeah… no porns then either.  Also, just this past weekend we took our yearly camping trip with my brother in law and his kids.  So naughty drawings had to wait a bit longer.  I think now though… everything is in order for me to start up again.  I hope…  I’m just sort of waiting for something else to happen to be honest.

So how’s you’re summer been?  Busy like mine?