These were some drawings that were part of my 'formal' training of using Paint, in which my Mom would give me specific exercises to do, with some help from a book for kids learning how to use computers. Most have my own choice of colouring and some additions too. These are proof that my eccentricity was not caused by any freakish accident. I'm kidding. They just prove that I was always awesome :P. I named these drawings 'Practice-1' through 'Practice-5'.
I've always liked drawing both on my computer and on paper. And I've always been crazy enough to show these drawings to people long after growing out of them and graduating to better stuff and then Photoshop and Gimp. That sums up the logic behind Old Paint Drawing posts.
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| You will notice that this involves almost all basic drawing tools in Paint. The birdie was my idea. |
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| Involves the basic ideas of cutting, copying, pasting, and rubbing out to simulate overlapping. Isn't drawing in Paint a cute thing in itself without the pictures being cute? |
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| Arrrrr. First usage of curved line and polygon tools. And also zooming in to do details. My memory doth serve me well at all unnecessary times. |
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| It was a 'test' in my lesson program, with the task being the red and blue blocks with text and the hills. Later, during a phase of fascination with the Lucida Handwriting font, I added the rest. I'm not sure if this qualifies as a drawing... oh wth, there's modern art. |
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| The neatest of my practice drawings by far. Also the one most deviated from the original task by later modifications. This makes prolific celebratory use of my then new-found knowledge of the two different selection modes. |
I have done some better artwork in Paint, and had some even better ideas that I abandoned out of laziness and later sometimes resurrected in Photoshop. And as most regulars will know, design wallpapers for a hobby now. I was inspired to make efforts in digital art by some great work, mostly in Paint, by my cousin Pamelee. If you saw the landscapes she made at times in Paint, you'd be amazed by her infinite patience before you appreciated how awesome and real-looking they were. The effects she achieved with the rather primitive features of Paint are well worth appreciation. Now that she works, I don't know if she still does any digital art.
I also know that Windows 7 has a Paint which is not that much primitive at all, and has interesting brush modes etc. I for one still have XP, and do not intend to change until it gives compatibility issues for new software or I get a new computer, whichever is earlier. Also, I think because the target users are different (though overlapping), Paint will never become like Photoshop. I do intend to do stuff other than wallpapers. Will tell you when that plan reaches anything resembling fruition.
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