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Author illustrates book using MS Paint after spending 10 years mastering it
- remotebug 9y agoGuy uses certain art style and supposedly bad image editing tool for marketing.
- supergreg 9y agoFor 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 9y agoWow, impressive!
- kowdermeister 9y agoRecommended soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp1NWRDl0pI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp1NWRDl0pI
- philipov 9y ago"This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.. It is not available in your country."
- flor1s 9y 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_ 9y agoAvailable in Sweden, however.
- Pica_soO 9y agoArrr, in the country of pirate bay norseman- the music better be - else viking ikea-ships run into the harbour and maketh it soo. Thus endeth the copyright-chronicles, when the scribe was hit to death with the tome, in the year of the Load.
- sethammons 9y agoClarification: 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 9y agoThe link to the kindle book is somewhat buried in the article: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07143FXZ5 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07143FXZ5 Looks wonderful, unfortunately not available in my country.
- pasta 9y agoI 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 9y agoAnd it's way more marketable to say you did it with paint
- userbinator 9y agoGreat 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 9y agoIt does have a look similar to images drawn in Deluxe Paint, though without the characteristic dithering since there is no color limitations.
- mcguire 9y agoThe majority of the /r/books discussion is that he should have used Photoshop.
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- NicoJuicy 9y agoI 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 9y agoIt 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 9y agoHighly recommend "Jim'll paint it" on facebook for a lot of ms paint hilarity.