MJBivouac

My lovely wife has agreed to buy me a touch art tablet for Christmas.
I have read a lot of reviews for a lot of tablets. But I just can't seem to decide which ones are the best.

I understand there may be an artist or two here on Deviant Art, so just what sort of tablets do YOU folks like and use? Which one should I buy? Hints, suggestions, help of any sort is desired. By the way, COST is not a huge consideration.
What I want is a tablet that you can draw directly upon. I have an old WACOM tablet that I use with my computer monitor but I want to draw on the screen itself.
Let the suggestion commence!

I recently learned that BACHELOR PAD(www.bachelorpadmagazine.com/) Magazine will be using my retro-style cartoon(From SEVEN years ago! Has it really been that long????)in an upcoming issue(next issue?)of the magazine! Please check out Bachelor Pad at the web link. It's a lot of fun and VERY well done(especially some of the cartoons).

I am very pleased to be contributing to BP. I never received any really good caption suggestions for this cartoon. So Jason and I brain stormed and came up with one that we both liked. But you'll have to wait until "my" issue comes out to learn just what he and I came up with.

I need a female model for a job I am doing for a client.
I would like to be able to meet with the model and photograph her posing for figure drawings on a comic book type project. So she would have to be available in the Hollywood California area for the shoot. 

I just need reference poses for a comic book type project. This will be a very simple shoot. Not in a studio with tons of lights and a fancy camera. Just a digital 35mm style camera and a light or two. If the model has a room or space in which to work in, I can come to her.  Boy friends, girl friends, bodyguards are more than welcome to monitor the shoot. This is all on the level.   Nudity is not required, but a leotard or underwear/bikini would be desirable. None of these photos will ever be seen by anyone except myself, my client and the model. They will never be posted on the internet. There is pay, it won't be much, but in cash and actual price will have to be negotiated with my client. I will gladly provide digital copies off all photos taken. This is a ONE time deal, not the first step to a long career in modeling.

If you know the DC comics character Haley Quinn, she is the body type we seek, but a perfect body is not necessarily required. The poses will be of the character getting ready and dressing her self in her body suit/costume. She ties up her hair, dresses, puts on a full head mask, gloves, shoes etc.  so pantomime skills will be helpful. Some actual props may be provided on my end. While nudity is not required, some of the poses will be a bit suggestive, such as breast grasping/holding as a woman might do if she were wiggling into a tight leotard or body suit and pushing everything into place. But that is about it.
So if you meet the geographic and physical requirements, contact me at:mwalters34@roadrunner.com.
Be sure to let me know your financial requirements so I can pass that along to the client. 

I recall an erotic(porn?)comic strip that appeared in OUI magazine back in the 1970s. It was entitled "Dolly Bird" and was drawn and written(?)by someone named Ken Taylor.  Dolly was a globe hopping 1920s flapper sort. An independent British woman who came from money, and took on all sorts of jobs and adventures.  She encountered a Dr. Frankenstein type fellow in her origin adventure, who's MONSTER had eyes for Dolly. In another installment she tried to photograph the Loch Ness Monster and attracted the advances of an amorous Scotsman.

And as one might imagine, she ended having a lot of sex with a lot of different men. And often somewhat against Dolly's will.  At present, I do not know if there were other installments in other issues of OUI.  One small clue I did manage to locate on-line suggests that Taylor may be British. But it's just a guess really.

Now try as I might I cannot find out anything more about Ken Taylor or Dolly Bird on the internet.  I did manage to buy three old issues of OUI that contained installments of Dolly Bird.
Does anyone here on DA know anything about Ken Taylor? 

Got the bad news early this week the 8 year old Apple desktop is not worth repairing.
I've been without a personal desktop for over a month now. I can't scan, print, or digitally manipulate anything. Oh the pain!
Well I bit the bullet today and ordered a new desktop. A Dell because I just can't afford another Apple. So stepping back to a Windows machine. At least Dell has a good reputation.  The new box should be here early next week. It will be good to have it back and running. I just hope it will like all my peripherals...printer, scanner, etc.
oh well...

Well, the new DELL showed up the day after I ordered it! Was I ever surprised!   Set it up this morning and...well I'm writing this from the DELL right now. So far, so good. No complaints. It's good to have a desktop again.  And another good thing is that I bought it with Photoshop Elements 13. So I'm ready to do digital art stuff again.