Author illustrates book using MS Paint after spending 10 years mastering it

http://www.boredpanda.com/microsoft-paint-ebook-illustrations-camp-redblood-pat-hines/

by pmcpinto • 9 years ago

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remotebug• 9 years ago

Guy uses certain art style and supposedly bad image editing tool for marketing.

supergreg• 9 years ago

For marketing? Wasn't the whole book made in paint? The marketing part is talking about the tool used.

Not much different from programmers saying their software was done in X language for marketing.

kevinvdburgt• 9 years ago

Wow, impressive!

kowdermeister• 9 years ago

Recommended soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp1NWRDl0pI

philipov• 9 years ago

"This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.. It is not available in your country."

flor1s• 9 years ago

"This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

Sorry about that."

I live in Japan...

wjh_• 9 years ago

Available in Sweden, however.

sethammons• 9 years ago

Clarification: he got really good (like, really good) at illustrating in ms paint over ten years. He leveraged that skill to illustrate his book. He did not take ten years to illustrate the book.

new299• 9 years ago

The link to the kindle book is somewhat buried in the article:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07143FXZ5

Looks wonderful, unfortunately not available in my country.

pasta• 9 years ago

I don't buy that he sucks at Photoshop. I think he just used Paint because it's available on all Windows PCs. This looks very nice, but I don't think his skills has a lot to do with Paint only. After all it's just a tool.

bluedino• 9 years ago

And it's way more marketable to say you did it with paint

userbinator• 9 years ago

Great art even if it wasn't made in MS Paint. It reminds me of the graphics in early-90s games (a lot of which may have been drawn with something not much more sophisticated than MS Paint.)

Grom_PE• 9 years ago

It does have a look similar to images drawn in Deluxe Paint, though without the characteristic dithering since there is no color limitations.

mcguire• 9 years ago

The majority of the /r/books discussion is that he should have used Photoshop.

NicoJuicy• 9 years ago

I wonder what he would have done with paint dot net. Which is my default replacement for paint.

Ps. Anyone knows why Microsoft hasn't bought it and added it to their default tools in Windows? I always taught this would be a good thing, since paint hasn't changed anything in 10 years or so

styfle• 9 years ago

It reminds me of Beavis and Butthead from the 90s--both the style of the artwork and also the fact that they are rebellious teenagers.

ENTP• 9 years ago

Highly recommend "Jim'll paint it" on facebook for a lot of ms paint hilarity.

Author illustrates book using MS Paint after spending 10 years mastering it

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