joe randel's art dump

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?

Sorry, I’ve got nothing for ya tonight.  But come back tomorrow (Thursday) and I’ll have something fun to show. ^_^

I’m so god damn tired.  I’ve been busting my ass on a freelance job to make some extra money for the deductible that I have to pay since my accident.  After some quick revisions I think it’s okay now, and it’s just waiting for approval.  I’ve been staying up late to get it done.  Usually 1am for the past few days.  Even though I’ve been up far later then I should be, I refuse to pull an all nighter.  I made that decision when I was in college.  A lot of my friends would stay up all night to get projects done.  I never did and I still got all my work done and graduated with honours.  I may have missed out on some fun late night hijinks, but I didn’t think it was worth it to be a wreck the next day.  I prefer to get a little sleep.  I know there where some students that stayed up for 2 or 3 days straight.  They could barely say their name by the time they had to hand in the project.  No sir… not for me.

Have you pulled an all nighter to get work done?

Who watches The Oscars?  I know some people get right in to it.  Throw a big party and enter in bets to see who wins.  I take a passing interest in it.  Not enough to watch.  I’m happy to just hear about the results the next day.  Probably because I don’t watch a lot of movies and even fewer of the nominated movies (I did watch Moneyball though).  Yet, here I am, sitting on the couch doing some freelance work while it’s on.  It’s okay I guess.  It fills the room with noise while I work.

Do you watch the Oscars?

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. ^_^

Since our car is in the shop after I bashed it up, we have a loaner van.  We should have it for a week and during that time I’ll have to suffer with the new car smell that is seems to have.  Ugh… I hate new car smell.  It gives me an instant headache.  As soon as I inhale those chemical fumes my head starts to pound.  Also, city transit  has added some new buses to it’s fleet.  So when I take the bus to go to work I have to deal with new bus smell.  Which seems to be almost exactly the same smell.  I know that some people love that brain cell destroying smell, I can’t see how.

Do you love that new car smell?