joe randel's art dump

My son as of late has gotten in to Pokemon.  He watched an episode last week and was totally hooked.  Even his older sister watches it with him.  I never watched the cartoon back when the original was on.  I was in college though so that might have something to do with it.  I did play the games though.  Own Pokemon Blue for GameBoy and Silver for GameBoy.  I played the crap out of Blue and even caught all the Pokemon for the thing.  I slowed down on Silver though.  I felt like I had just played this game and so the drive for catching everything was gone.  I haven’t played another one since.

Now that my kids have taken an interest in the current generation of Pokemon, I find myself looking at the show kind of sideways.  So, there’s this trainer that goes around and captures animals, trains them to fight against other animals and trainers.  Oh, and he/she keeps them them in a small animal home when they’re not fighting.  I’m pretty sure you can get arrested for that sort of thing. ^_^ I’m not about to stop them from watching the show.  Heck, I watch the show with them and I enjoy it too.  I just think it’s funny that 13 years and 2 kids later I look a Pokemon now and think… really?

Where you ever in to Pokemon back in the day?  Did you catch them all?

Okay, this pic was too good not to post.  It’s by an artist named Donald Kennedy, he does custom toy sculptures.  I love how there is no question that Mario would rather be doing a check up on Peach’s er.. um… peach.

This sculpture is actually up for give away over at the artists site.  Just leave a post in the comments section here with a suggestion on what his next piece should be and you could be the winner.  Oh, and if you live over seas, you can still enter.

Well, it didn’t take long for the gaming community to turn the perv dial up to 10 with Soul Calibur V.  The game was released on the 31st of Jan here in North America, 2nd of Feb in Japan and the 3rd of Feb for Europe and already there are up skirts and dress down costumes to view.  Not that I’m complaining mind you.  I find it more amusing then anything really.  I’m all for a little skirt lift as some fan service during a game.  Makes you feel sort of naughty, like you just saw something you shouldn’t have.  Mostly, I think it’s too much work to find the moves that show the most and try to pause the game at the optimal moment, or trying to make sexy outfit for my in game character.  Bah, I’ll let others do the work and I’ll just rep the benefits.  So… on with the show.

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I draw… a lot.  It’s my favorite hobby and it’s also my career.  I can’t imagine what else I might be doing (other then playing games) with my time if I wasn’t drawing.  And yet, there are those out there that draw even more then I do!  I’m talking about the ones that are able to post new art almost everyday! It’s crazy town how much some people draw.  I guess they’re totally dedicated to the craft.  It pays off too.  When they put up progression pics of what they did 10 years ago vs. what they can do now.  It’s like… holy crap!  I’ve been trying to practice my figure drawing in the morning to warm myself up, and even that’s a struggle!

I tip my hat to those people.  They seem to bleed art.  They get it.  They understand it, and I hope that one day I’ll be able to understand it too.

So lets start off the first day of February with our first look back at erotic artists.  From the large list I’ve accumulated I decided to pick Achille Devéria.  He was a French artist from back in the early 19th century (1800 – 1857) who’s art consisted mostly of lithographs and water colour paintings.  During his life, Achille’s would gain success through his illustrations and lithographs, having them printed up in romantic novels, note books and albums.  It’s also mentioned that he would paint portraits of other famous writers and artists.  Writers like Victor Hugo, Sir Walter Scott and Alexandre Dumas where all painted in his Paris studio.

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