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Why waste your time learning photoshop when you can illustrate an entire novel via art created in MSPaint?
Fast forward to 2004, when I was working overnights as a security guard at a hospice. After a while I got bored of reading ghost stories on the old Weird NJ website and had to find some other way to pass the time. I'm not a gaming fan, so Solitaire and Minesweeper and most of eBaum's world were out. So I opened MS Paint, found a Google image of Galadriel from The Fellowship of the Rings (early 2000s I was predictably mad for everything Tolkien) and started drawing.You can see a lot of his art on his DeviantArt. Some other art from Business Insider
This is as big a case of wasted potential that I have ever seen. Dude's got chops, but instead of getting Hollywood famous he got really good with the MSPaint spray can.
posted by higginba at 10:44 PM on May 16, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by higginba at 10:44 PM on May 16, 2017 [3 favorites]
Cool. Reminds me of how amazing I found early iterations of MSpaint after a couple failed attempts with pre-mouse graphics programs.
There's a lot of interesting stuff you can do when your tools are inherently limited . . .
posted by aspersioncast at 8:31 AM on May 17, 2017
There's a lot of interesting stuff you can do when your tools are inherently limited . . .
posted by aspersioncast at 8:31 AM on May 17, 2017
The irony being, of course, that MS Paint Adventures switched to Photoshop early on...
posted by WizardOfDocs at 9:34 AM on May 17, 2017
posted by WizardOfDocs at 9:34 AM on May 17, 2017
Paint is the only thing available on work computers, so I use it to design most of my stained glass pieces. It's an incredibly versatile tool and I feel like many of the more advanced programs I try to use at home are simply too complex. That said, I wish we had paint.net or inkscape at work. I'd be so much happier working late shifts.
Of course, I've been using it since the 80s and still don't have anything near the chops of the featured artist. I'm a very slight cut above Hyperbole and a Half, but only because I work in geometrics.
posted by Lighthammer at 10:12 AM on May 17, 2017
Of course, I've been using it since the 80s and still don't have anything near the chops of the featured artist. I'm a very slight cut above Hyperbole and a Half, but only because I work in geometrics.
posted by Lighthammer at 10:12 AM on May 17, 2017
Photoshop would honestly be a very bad tool for the type of illustration this artist is doing. It seems like he found a tool that works for him, and made the absolute most of it. There is no shame in that.
I make my living using Photoshop and other Adobe tools, and have done so for 20+ years now. In my opinion, they are a hot stinking mess. Non-intuitive, buggy, no rhyme or reason to the use or location of the extremely bloated feature set, no consistency between different applications in what is sold as a suite of software. Oh, and you have to pay a monthly fee to use this pile of turds. I feel like a musician who rents his instrument.
My advice to any aspiring digital artists or designers is to learn other software. There are plenty of other applications out there. Some free options, many very reasonably priced. Adobe only has a monopoly because we allow them to.
posted by Cranialtorque at 1:56 PM on May 17, 2017 [1 favorite]
I make my living using Photoshop and other Adobe tools, and have done so for 20+ years now. In my opinion, they are a hot stinking mess. Non-intuitive, buggy, no rhyme or reason to the use or location of the extremely bloated feature set, no consistency between different applications in what is sold as a suite of software. Oh, and you have to pay a monthly fee to use this pile of turds. I feel like a musician who rents his instrument.
My advice to any aspiring digital artists or designers is to learn other software. There are plenty of other applications out there. Some free options, many very reasonably priced. Adobe only has a monopoly because we allow them to.
posted by Cranialtorque at 1:56 PM on May 17, 2017 [1 favorite]
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