Those are AMAZING Randall pics, pitbulllady! I love how you blended his colors in the one where heâs playing basketball (and coolly winning, it looks like!) Nice how you borrowed the pose from a real reference and interpreted Randall into it! Not to mention the wintery pic has that nice, cozy feeling with the way you drew and colored his warm winter clothes. Come to think of it, youâre right, he would be hard to beat, in both activites. Nice job with both the clean, smooth digital coloring and the great use of paints and marker!
Oh, and your sketch before that is astoundingly excellent! The shading looks professional! Very beautiful job. I like how you cleverly put A113 in there as well as the other references. So amazing and well done in expressing the sleepy, relieved kind of mood. I can also see that Randall is awesome at multitasking but can still feel tired at the end.
Heh. What I really like about your multitasking thing here is that heâs just generally kind of âmeh whateverâ in this case about his other tasks and just looking/slightly smiling at the phone while doing everything else. This is all second nature to him after all, making use of all those limbs at the same time. You really get that impression.
For some reason I really ike the fact you see some teeth on the bar, the fact his coffee cup is so BIG not to mention his tail. (I really like Randallâs tail generally but for some reason I really like how youâve done it here).
Great picture!
(Random question is the bar heâs gnawing on itself a particular brand? Itâs not something I recognise myself anyway so I wonder if you made it up or if itâs some brand over in America.)
Yep, the bar is a PayDay bar, which is basically a peanut brittle log that takes teeth like Randallâs to eat. And of course, a little Styrofoam cup of coffee ainât gonna cut it when it comes to this guy! The phone is an IPhone and the MP3 player an IPod Nano, of course, since Apple is owned by the same guy who owns Pixar.
Apple and Pixar are owned by the same people? Never knew that! Wowa, guy seriously knows his stuff in the business department⌠or heâs really lucky anyway.
Yeah, Randall needs his caffine fix no matter what huh?
I canât imagine Randall without coffee anymore, it almost sounds insane to me to imagine him without it in his life.
If I might wax lyrical about this piece, it almost works symbolically, even if that wasnât PBLâs original intent- it shows Randall being plugged into technology, but to a certain degree that would distract him to what is really happening to him where he is in the physical world at this particular moment of time perhaps. To the degree he has a faded muted grey background in his mind, because he deems it unimportant to what he is currently doing unless it directly affects him (and like in the movie heâs more or less on his own and has to look after number 1 because it seems no-one else will when it comes to the crunch), and perhaps misses out on this because heâs too wrapped up in what he is doing to see the bigger picture.
Sometimes like a lot of us these days. So in essence Randall is all of us and how we are as a society sometimes today.
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Donât look at me like that! Fanart can be taken as deep!
Haha, I love it, pitbulllady! So like Randall to multi-task like that, and I really like the style in which you draw and colour in Randall. You add lots of little details that are a pleasure to look out for.
Seeing Randall using such up-to-date technology always seems strange to me though, I guess because although the movie is set at the time it was actually made, the Monster World (or at least what we see of it) always feels to me like it was set in the '40s or '50s or something. I donât know why, but I always imagine Randall listening to old records rather than having an iPod Nano.
I still like it though! You always have such fresh takes and new ideas on things.
Some of my Randall pics are set post-MI, and this is one of them. I like to think of him going against the grain of most monsters who find themselves stuck in the Human World, for whatever reasons, and rather than hiding in some remote corner of the globe, forced to live like a wild animal, Randall would simply adapt and do what he does best-blend in! Randall might not be the geek that his former Scare Assistant is, but I can imagine that heâd be totally fascinated by our technology and gadgets.
I think that one of the reasons the movie had a sort of vaguely 40âs or 50s-ish feel to it is because the architechture of that factory building is very post-WWII Industrial, very like many of the factories which proliferated here in this country during and right after the war, very stark and bulky. I can remember when I was in the second grade and my fatherâs place of employment, Sonoco Products, Inc., had what could be considered a precursor to the âTake Your Kid To Work Dayâ, where the company(which is a paper company, by the way)invited employeesâ families to come out and eat lunch with their family member and tour the place. That part of the factory, which has since been torn down and replaced with a modern building, was built in 1945, and it looked a lot like the M.I. building, just this huge, stark imposing structure with very bulky-looking interior fixtures. If anyone has seen the M.I.-related video game, âPinball Panicâ, which shows what I presume to the âWreck roomâ, thereâs all this steel visible, and these sort of inverted traingular glass-and-steel things that form barriers between different parts of the room. They had those same things at my dadâs workplace, filled with water, and it bugged me as a kid that they werenât used as aquariums-they just had water in them, no fish or anything like that! In the movie, though, we can see that the monsters DO have computers, even though theyâre more like the PCâs we had back in the early '90âs, so theyâve definitely got technology that is way past the '50âs.
That is a very emotional and heartbreaking piece, pitbullady. I can tell from your username you must be a fan of pitbulls. I really despise speciests, and most Hollywood movies arenât helping (Anaconda, Jaws, Eight-Legged Freaks, etc.). If a film was made about a certain group of people being depicted in a demeaning way, it would be perceived as racist, but for animals, oh, itâs all for âgood entertainmentâ. And then you wonder why wolves, sharks and tigers are being âculledâ/hunted to extinction.
And yes, I read your entire description. Itâs very touching, and while I may not be a Randall sympathiser (though that may change, as itâs been ages since Iâve seen Monsters and I really need to reassess his character through more matured âadult glassesâ), I can understand his plight in defending his new furry friend. Does the pooch have a name?
And really, you should just feed this âplot bunnyâ already, Iâd love to read a fanfic on this! Itâd be like a cross between âThe Fugitiveâ, âThe Roadâ and âWatership Downâ, in The Big Easy! Do you know how awesome that sounds?
I wish I had time to sit down and write, seriously. Either I donât, or if I do, the âmusesâ donât cooperate. Iâm also not that spontaneous as a writer; I have to envision how a story will begin, progress and end before Iâll write it, and if I canât come up with a logical way for it to end, I canât write it. I also have a difficult time just writing short stories(as most of you who take time to read just my posts here can probably figure out, lol), so they tend to progress more into novels, and that is where the time issue comes in. That is the case with this particular story, since it would have to delve into things like prejudice and judging others based on their appearances, and of the negative stereotyping that you mentioned, which is one of the reasons why I have problems with Randall having been put in the position of being the âbad guyâ in the first place. There is also that theme of while Randall saved the dogâs life by liberating her from the âdeath vanâ, she ultimately saves HIS, not from some attack by something or someone, but through her âjoie de vieâ and her enthusiasm for life, in spite of all that sheâs been through herself and in spite of how the world still perceives her, at a time when he was so low and down in his spirits as to contemplate the unthinkable as his only way out of his situation. The dog doesnât judge him, and could care less about the things heâs done.
I hadnât really settled on a name for the dog yet, but I was sorta leaning towards âBonnieâ, since it had a nice Scottish or Irish âringâ to it, and would contrast with how most people would see her: as an ugly, scarred-up devil-dog. Plus, I did think of a nice little back-story where Randall had had a dog named Bonnie(or rather, his family did)when he was still a young kid, before tragically losing his family(and he certainly has no family in the movie, seen or unseen), so heâd come up with that name because she reminds him of that long-gone little memory from his childhood.
Ah, man, this is just beautiful! I gotta say, this is probably my favorite piece from you! This is just incredible. And I love the back-story. I love the message about how you canât judge people or animals just by what they seem to be. Itâs who they are at heart that matters . And the image itself is gorgeous! If you donât mind me asking, what do you use to color your pictures? I really like this, and was just wondering how you do that. Itâs absolutely amazing! And the anatomy of the pit bull terrier is amazingly spot-on! And I love the phrase you used. Keep up the great work !!!
I actually had to use a freebie program I downloaded off the internet, called âArtWeaverâ, which is nearly as good as Corel Painter Essentials. My Corel Painter program on my computer has somehow gotten messed up or corrupted, and my aunt mistakenly threw out all my graphics and other software when my father had to move in with me following the loss of his house in a fire, so I canât reload the Corel and I canât afford a new one right now. You can download Art Weaver here if youâre interested in giving it a try, though I donât know if you have a Wacom or other graphics tablet or not, and it definitely is designed to work with one: artweaver.de/
I use mostly the digital airbrush feature with the program to color in my work after I upload a photo of a pencil sketch to the program.
âWacomâ is a brand name of digital graphics tablets, which work with a special âpenâ that comes with the tablet. There are many models available, some of which are USB and others which are Blue Tooth. These tablets really let you get the most out of applications like Photoshop and Corel Painter, and many others, and even work with Microsoft Paint. I use the Intuos model tablet now, but I started out on the old Graphire, which is no longer being made. I got my first tablet and software with a computer graphics course for teachers that I took several years ago for re-certification, and Iâve been hooked on digital art ever since! You can learn more about Wacom tablets and products here: wacom.com/index.html .
You can use ArtWeaver on any computer-just go to the website and download the program for free. It will work with a mouse, BUT you arenât going to get those subtle details without a digital tablet. I for one canât do diddly with a mouse, when it comes to digital art, and with a tablet, it âfeelsâ like Iâm drawing or painting on paper or canvas. You can often find good used digital tablets on Ebay or Craigslist, if you are able to buy stuff from those sites.
Oh my gosh⌠Sorry it took me so long to reply . But thank you for the info ! Iâd love to have one of those eventually. Iâll remember that for later down the road. Right now all the extra moneyâs going to getting a puppy .
Those are AMAZING Randall pics, pitbulllady! I love how you blended his colors in the one where heâs playing basketball (and coolly winning, it looks like!) Nice how you borrowed the pose from a real reference and interpreted Randall into it! Not to mention the wintery pic has that nice, cozy feeling with the way you drew and colored his warm winter clothes. Come to think of it, youâre right, he would be hard to beat, in both activites. Nice job with both the clean, smooth digital coloring and the great use of paints and marker! 
Wowa, guy seriously knows his stuff in the business department⌠or heâs really lucky anyway.
I can tell from your username you must be a fan of pitbulls. I really despise speciests, and most Hollywood movies arenât helping (Anaconda, Jaws, Eight-Legged Freaks, etc.). If a film was made about a certain group of people being depicted in a demeaning way, it would be perceived as racist, but for animals, oh, itâs all for âgood entertainmentâ. And then you wonder why wolves, sharks and tigers are being âculledâ/hunted to extinction.
. And the image itself is gorgeous! If you donât mind me asking, what do you use to color your pictures? I really like this, and was just wondering how you do that. Itâs absolutely amazing! And the anatomy of the pit bull terrier is amazingly spot-on! And I love the phrase you used. Keep up the great work 
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. But thank you for the info