How an MS Paint artist made this picture

Pat Hines used MS Paint for all the illustrations in his book. Here's how.
Check out Pat's work here:
/ campredblood
/ captainredblood
www.amazon.com/dp/B07143FXZ5
We've also created 2 videos that show the entire process (KZbin has a 12 hour limit - Pat spent 15 hours making this picture).
Part 1:
• How an MS Paint artist...
Part 2:
• How an MS Paint artist...
In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards interviews an artist using an unlikely tool: MS Paint. Microsoft Paint isn't known as the best artistic tool. But Pat Hines used it to create the illustrations for his horror fantasy, Camp Redblood. And the results are incredible.
He explains how Microsoft Paint works for him, and includes notes about his favorite artists, like Herge, Ivan Bilibin, and more. He also shows why he prefers Paint to Photoshop and Illustrator and how it created his unique artistic style. This speedpaint is a reflection of years of labor.
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[@sugarfate4985]

This just goes to show that it's not the software, but my lack of talent.

[@koriki2824]

a great craftsman never blames his tools

[@kalkael7885]

I agreed but hey some software help by means of comfort

[@HeenaPatel253]

Sūgar Fåte it’s the software

[@devonoknabo2582]

@@HeenaPatel253 you need a basic software that is okay but mostly skill you can be so skilled that you are good at paint

[@HeenaPatel253]

@@devonoknabo2582 well yeah but it would be much more easier to make that picture in photoshop then is MS paint

[@robinsandiego2346]

A moment of silence for MS Paint....

[@reality7860]

Jon Robin San Diego It'll still be in the Microsoft store

[@aR0ttenBANANA]

+Dominic Lewis and apparently the program replacing it is gonna be like really good.

[@reality7860]

aR0ttenBANANA96 well after all these years it deserves a good update

[@therudestofclouds2007]

i still have ms paint.

[@mikado6407]

Dominic Lewis yeah but it's more an add on for 3d

[@pencrows]

Vox: Cartoony drawings from MSPaint KZbin: Realistic santa drawing on MSpaint

[@ah7389]

You have to admit it's still impressive

[@baldpusheengrohl]

cartoon bad realistic good

[@tibblesss]

I see that you have seen that as well

[@bassilosman8803]

This guy made this entirely on a Mouse and the other guy made it on a drawing tablet

[@uhhrynn]

We all see that video on time in another in our life

[@itsmetom7732]

imagine accidentally clicking “dont save”

[@michahyu26840]

Are you trying to give me flashbacks? *frustrated crying noises*

[@notjack2093]

@@michahyu26840 aUgh- SAmE

[@imhawkz]

😭

[@merlynfereira1463]

Yup

[@TheSkyGamez]

just hit ctrl+s every 5 seconds

[@shifatrahman9181]

This is by far the best windows 10 presentation in my life

[@leti5297]

There's a realistic Santa man

[@triplehaudah]

Mr. bobby the apple I saw that one too

[@redredwine1054]

only 3 replies?

[@atomicbomb167]

Shifat Rahman I

[@hanamaeda7083]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGPKZqSYq8dqfJY

[@evinsabberton73]

If he left it as just line art with no colouring he could publish an amazing colouring book!

[@Dustie1984]

the Microsoft Paint Colouring Book

[@cordyvisuals]

i mean that goes for any line art but yeah

[@SirusStarTV]

Just remove all colors in Photoshop

[@MasthaX]

He uses 2 different versions of paint to create his art. A true paint professional.

[@eddiejoewalt7746]

what you mean he using the same ms paint unless you tell me how you could lair on MS paint?

[@curple3]

@@eddiejoewalt7746 He said he uses two versions. Old Paint for the lineart and new Paint for the colouring

[@_neon-xeon_3966]

That must have took a toll in his hands Drawing with a mouse is not a joke

[@Pezinteresante]

Pretty sure he uses a drawing tablet lol

[@idontexist1966]

@@Pezinteresante he uses a mouse

[@_adheeb.]

His hands are tough ? Practice makes a man tough ? ( perfect )

[@falcoperegrinus82]

@@Pezinteresante He says in the video that it's all mouse lol.

[@timtam3730]

I draw with the touchpad on my laptop because it's waay easier

[@streax8967]

Never thought I'd be inspired to draw or paint on my free time. Time to try.

[@Fudgebal8]

Quick! MS paint is getting removed :(

[@k-dogg711]

Tristan Hollink Actually, Its not

[@redcoat4348]

Look at polandball! It's amazing sometimes. Some people use photoshop, but users like u/DickRhino on reddit are paint purists.

[@fakepro5848]

Tristan Hollink it's just being updated it's still going to be there it will always be there... Trust the one that they are updating 3D Microsoft Paint also as almost all the same features so it would felt like it would be pointless for them to be updating both when you could really just use the second one for all you're needs

[@danf2450]

no its not they just arent updating it

[@cutez0r]

Keep MS Paint alive! The unsung hero of Windows.

[@CapnShades]

I draw in real life but I work with colored pencils and it's usually pretty uneven (unsure if it's my paper or my method), so I tried using paint to touch it up and it actually worked pretty well. I've only done it once so far, but I plan to use it more in the future.

[@ABDMIN]

cutez0r watch my Pewdiepie Parody animation made in Ms paint

[@Luna-fo8np]

666 likes 😂😂😂

[@the_openers_of_eyes8]

there is paint 3d now too. :3

[@paravaxx]

Braycam1 you dont even know what 666 means you 4 yo roblox player

[@HQ_Default]

The dude being grabbed by the tentacle is just sittin' there like "Welp I guess this is my life now"

[@7mbmasihbelajar]

This is life. Do you wish to continue?

[@mightypurplelicious3209]

Asphaltian no it’s my life now

[@user-mg7wh8zq6v]

the guy eating it raw

[@CEKROM]

2:10 Typical Windows =D

[@johannbauer2863]

Lord Cekrom wow, du hier? Schockierend XD

[@anigam1747]

Warum findet man dich überall

[@SlashZooka]

+AniGam 174 Ich schätze viele Leute sind hier die auch andere Videos schauen nur die kommentieren halt weniger :o

[@ganjedipanda4126]

CEKROM q

[@thatguyalex2835]

I was gonna say the same thing. Windows updates infuriate me. The updates make me really want to switch to Linux Ubuntu.

[@youngbrayden8582]

Damn he makes it look so easy

[@aakashr2101]

LOL tru

[@redredwine1054]

only 1 reply?

[@Hamuel]

That's Because It Is...?

[@moojuice602]

PiggieFatNose It's not easy for everyone.

[@Hamuel]

You must be stupid because any 5 year old can do pixel art, an 8 year old could probably make something like that.

[@thijsvandevelde6056]

"mspaint.exe has stopped working" WHOOOOOT

[@shiroeloghorizon9771]

Thijs Vandevelde imagine that or eletricity short after 7 hours in the software

[@mayoi_nui]

Thijs Vandevelde It's called saving, if you save every once in a while, you will only loose a few minutes of work. I save about every 15 to 30 minutes when I use a program.

[@thijsvandevelde6056]

Alex Vitkov lol , changed

[@SaltVinegar2010]

Thijs Vandevelde Half way through the 15 hour painting & forgot to press Ctrl + S to save it 😂😂😂😂

[@bunbundabunni3843]

Practice healthy saving habits, unless you're working with Flash. Just learn to embrace panic when Flash gets unresponsive during saves.

[@sunnaum]

the real question is How someone becomes a certified MS artist haha

[@SincerestSawa]

i think its so interesting how a digital art program like ms paint could help him find his style

[@dropUrPeaches]

"Paint is like meditation to me." Right on. My only problem with paint is that when I'm spending hours in it, I seem to stop blinking. And since you can only zoom in to 800%, it's already kind of eye-straining for details. I still love it, though.

[@emargaux]

That's why most good MS Paint artists work with larger pieces.

[@clmBerserker]

Pylades Drunk wouldent lower desktop resolution solve that issue?

[@TyphlosionGirl]

Pylades Drunk SAME I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels that way!

[@michalvalta5231]

It's not meditation if you are forgetting to blink... Meditation is about awareness. What you are describing is more like falling asleep... Or just being completely focused, forgeting yourself. Which, again, is not meditation...

[@rocker7819]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYSwkHeHaaqJbK8

[@Blunt3021]

Who needs notifications when your whole life revolves around KZbin

[@ryanjames3987]

Hi Bye same

[@iluvdiazepam9520]

amen

[@mermaidtingzzz]

The most accurate comment ever.

[@katlone2881]

I tried and tried with a lot of softwares and applications, and I always came back with MS paint. (windows 10) and your video convinced me that is the best way to make digital comics and art. THANK YOUUUU Pat Hines!!! Love your art!

[@genesissaldivar2496]

mom can i buy adobe illustrator Mom: we have adobe illustrator at home adobe illustrator at home:

[@CDawg]

I REALLY didn't expect to be interested in this video.

[@crispymax]

same

[@HopeButMiserable]

:0

[@AdamArtzi]

By the look of your profile picture you look really surprised.

[@jc-px8ox]

He really got some good hand coordination

[@brunoalves-pg9eo]

He used the curved line tool for the lines, only the first sketch is made with pencil tool which requires good hand coordination.

[@dawwnosaur]

Also he used a drawing tablet which is way easier than using a mouse

[@derpizzaman1050]

how about you watch the video first

[@dawwnosaur]

The Bad Pooper oH

[@dawwnosaur]

Michael Cab_ dang, sorry im a human and make mistakes sometimes;;

[@ajinomou]

This just means that you don't need to buy expensive and luxurious (digital) art materials just to create an exquisite art like this.

[@leonardofernandez6488]

Love your art and your philosophy.

[@thekandycinema3193]

Did anyone else draw a ton of overlapping squiggly lines in paint and then fill in the holes with random colors using the paint bucket?

[@citizeneveryman6798]

TheKandyCinema that's how dreams are made

[@allieisasleep]

And then not fill in the white spaces

[@967patty]

TheKandyCinema All of the time. And then there would be one part where the shape didn't connect and close all of the way so the one part I expected to be colored ended up accidentally making the whole screen that color.

[@shannarafryer3111]

Me

[@loungejay8555]

that's all I thought MS paint was good for.

[@bridgeit32]

Dang that's wayyyyyy better than anything I've ever done with ms paint

[@nurlagrande]

Bridget Louise yeah I think that's the point

[@monkofdarktimes]

It takes practice

[@marcogh]

Bridget Louise Santa?

[@asherfeinstein1763]

Better then anything Ive ever done

[@treywaka2444]

Is that really saying much though?

[@annaolivares5740]

I came here becaues my 7 year old daughter has started using MS paint a lot to create art and I'm so impressed. I want to encourage her more and help her grow her skills. I love your work.

[@xander4644]

That's amazing and inspiring. Using restrictions to create outstanding art is nothing new, but still something to be in awe of.

[@opsate1140]

How MS Paint can make this in 3 easy steps: 1. Be REALLY good at knowing what exact shades of color. 2. KNOW HOW TO EXACTLY CRAFT good anatomy in pixellated form. 3. profit

[@iwilltakeyourpassword453]

Heh

[@iwilltakeyourpassword453]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGPKZqSYq8dqfJY

[@gmuffin4543]

@Clash of the Potato People TCG New sub from me BTW love the idea of potato card game!

[@Win090949]

@@iwilltakeyourpassword453 seen before

[@Nugcon]

"Easy"

[@skrytetemnoty7590]

Am I the only one who thinks MS Paint is a good medium? It's not difficult to use, despite the lack of layers, but that's just like drawing with a pencil and paper-- no layers. It isn't as bad or simple as people let it off to be. So it is possible that awesome art like this can be made!

[@drawingstuff6660]

Skryte Temnoty yes you are

[@flowerzmay]

Skryte Temnoty nah ms paint is rad dude ✌

[@riftmusic5232]

Lol ur joking right? Yeah its not BAD but its definitely not good.

[@boysandcorpses8768]

Skryte Temnoty actually I draw everything in ms paint haha

[@skrytetemnoty7590]

Rift Music Dude kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGPKZqSYq8dqfJY

[@theemperor1015]

Awesome!! It's like using rocks instead of matchbox.

[@viewbob4755]

looks like a wikihow post “how to spread butter on toast”

[@weijianlim4431]

More like "How to spread butter without touching anything but a Knife, Toast and a Butter"

[@deepilt]

This is what happens when you are too broke to pay your Internet bills!

[@aronseptianto8142]

i know it's illegal but just crack it already it's pretty easy to do

[@KLK01]

Torrent PS cs5.

[@dive_whale]

Aron Septianto how

[@SaltVinegar2010]

Pxintman Better off torrenting CS6 extended which is closer to PS CC.

[@bunbundabunni3843]

Ya'll know that there're tons of free programs that can even be better than PS for specific purposes, right? Painting: Medibang, Firealpaca, Gimp Krita (if you can deal with its fussiness) Pixel Art: Graphics Gale, MS Paint (really, ps sux bad for pixelart) Vector (forever crisp zoom in's) art: Inkscape, Vectr (more for graphic design) 2D Animation: Tupi: 2d Magic, Opentoonz (or anything else over PS's horrible timeline) Only thing that really shines for photoshop are its color editing and filter abilities, but besides that, you can find programs out there that can do stuff better. Its UI is horrendous (4 keys to shortcut merge layers? 3 to undo??)! Legally, you can get PS7 for free, because they stopped support. Plenty powerful, still!

[@joshuaamoroso4793]

I find it so hard to use it, cause of how simple and limited the software was, but I guess you just need time patience and skill

[@LloydLynx]

I love ms paint, I wish it would work with WINE because I can't figure out GIMP image editor.

[@SuicideSauceNoodles]

I suggest paint.net for a good first editor

[@barakeel]

@TheJooomes You can use kolourpaint4 instead which is very close to ms paint

[@tact1calbanana388]

download windows

[@RITWICKHALDER]

That's the power of simplicity. Brilliant.

[@shubh7615]

Damn This guy has talent. Godspeed bro. You are doing it as awesome as it can get.

[@Stevey_B]

Outstanding

[@redredwine1054]

no replies?

[@unitedstates4912]

is that a joke you must not of seen the Unbelievably Realistic Microsoft Paint Art Santa Claus

[@SirWigglebott0m]

....move

[@puzzLEGO]

Why does this have so many likes and why did I bother liking it?

[@haoqw]

i don’t understand this comment and it’s replies

[@d_wang9836]

Press f to pay respect

[@mjzpeanut]

g

[@Seallbay]

D

[@chokovok7231]

[Yoshikage_Kira] r

[@callmegravy]

Alt + F4

[@sam08g16]

Amen

[@redtsun67]

I also draw in MS paint a lot. I don't know why, but I enjoy drawing digitally with a mouse. I can go back as many times as I want and redraw a line until it's perfect. Sometimes it make take me a few hours to draw a really detailed picture, but to me, it's worth it. It's the drawing itself that I enjoy, and not so much the end result.

[@pixelfox9666]

This takes me back! I used to do stuff like this in MS Paint, because I enjoyed the challenge of the limited program. (And because I was too cheap to get Photoshop, or a stylus.) I never did anything nearly this big, but I also worked almost exclusively with a touchpad for awhile. Actually, I was putting most of my stuff up on Deviantart at the time, and I specialized in avatars -- 50 by 50 pixels. It sounds much easier to do something so small, and in a lot of ways it is; but in a lot of other ways it isn't, because you have such a small space to show everything you want to show. There's a huge community of people who do this sort of thing on Deviantart. It's called pixel art, because you're creating it pixel by pixel. Not everyone does it in MS Paint, some people do use Photoshop. But it doesn't matter, because they're still emulating MS Paint. The only thing that Photoshop has that MS Paint doesn't that's useful for pixel art is layers; and as Pat Hines just showed us, there are tons of creative ways to get around a lack of layers. (I used to do the same thing he did here, do a rough sketch, then go over it in a different color; only he keeps the initial sketch even after making the formal lineart and I used to always erase the sketch as soon as the lineart was completed.) I even won an award (a Daily Deviation) for one of my works, an avatar-sized animated coyote howling in the desert. Dang, now I want to open MS Paint up again, lol.

[@iidane1005]

my masterpiece is done! :DDDDDDD *exits without saving*

[@debbiemeyer2693]

iiDane ikr

[@ktan18879]

Or when computer restarts automatically for updates

[@door9520]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaa *aaaaaaaaa* *_aaaaaaaaaaaa_* *_AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA_*

[@pepsi4668]

iiDane usually when I exit it and I haven't saved it says, "Save and leave." And "Leave without saving." But when I do save it that message doesn't come up.

[@oreoolga5393]

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@Stelomat]

i once had to deal with an electrical engineer who made all his plans (like very complex electrical plans) within ms paint. Nobody knew that he would do them in paint. Until i migrated his pc from XP to windows 7 :) he could not draw the same lines in win 7 paint as in win xp paint which had another linetool line as he described to me :) aaaahh funny days in IT

[@patrickhines1006]

I'm the artist. I feel his pain. I HAAAATE that new line too.

[@pixelfox9666]

Not just the new line tool. The cursor's click is a little off. God, it sucks so much.

[@Diamond_Tiara]

do you guys ignore you can copy a program to any new computer, do you know this? probably not. dl.free.fr/wCgaamJiB there. mspaint from XP. Modded by Catbutts and DarkDoomer for 25 undo levels. If you do not know what to do with this, message me again so I can make fun of your incompetence. Also if you upgrade something functional to something newer and shittier ( Windows 10 is a good example ) You deserve only pain.

[@World_of_OSes]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoizfWlsbZKEopY

[@Diamond_Tiara]

@epic the greek YOU PROBLEM COMPUTER? YOU PROBLEM COMPUTER! AAAAAH YOU BRAIN HURTS

[@LinkOStalker]

Awesome!! This is very inspiring!!

[@darkelybuddha]

A man out for my own heart, been doing pixel art on M.S Paint since childhood. Keep it up, you're doing God's work.

[@xXBlueSheepXx]

I love how the infographics pop up in yellow accurately made windows, but Vox doesn't read comments so they can't see this compliment.

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

And I can’t even draw a stickman

[@meepgoesrawr6168]

I can't even make a mark!

[@uhhhyeah5102]

I have to wait 90 days to change my name yes you can don't lie

[@Takenyao123]

my signature change everytime

[@uhhhyeah5102]

Harlow Draws Things ikr? Like dude if you're going to try to say you can't draw as good as him don't try to say you can't draw the simplest thing to draw

[@uhhhyeah5102]

Harlow Draws Things I'm glad too

[@afti03]

i absolutely loved this! PAT..... you're a genius!

[@safetyman1914]

It’s perfect and I admire your work

[@tnhnoztel]

There goes my excuse for not having an art program

[@withoutcontext816]

Firealpaca is great and free. So is GIMP x

[@L._.A-06]

Krita

[@somestingyontheinternet683]

*for having

[@DustyMusician]

Yes, Vox. Some people use MS Paint.

[@minwoohan4826]

How does he erase the pink outlines that he drew? Does he do it manually? Or is there a tool to choose specific colors and change them?

[@TyphlosionGirl]

Allonso1234 HAN There's a tool specific to MS paint that allows you to only erase a certain color. It won't be anywhere obvious, and there's no name for the tool but you basically just pick the color you want to erase with left click with the eyedropper tool and pick the color you want to replace it with, with right click then you hold down right click with the eraser tool and it will only replace the first color. I found this out from fiddling around and from my days of Pokemon spriting 👍🤗 hope that helps!

[@minwoohan4826]

Wow Thanks so much!!

[@Diamond_Tiara]

yeah, because it loads faster than illustrator, except it's bitmap.

[@iwilltakeyourpassword453]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGPKZqSYq8dqfJY

[@mairathorn3331]

wow....gr8 work and patience for sure

[@thiskid990]

I love this video, used to use the same layer line technique to make little pixel coloring books for class projects.. not nearly as detailed & awesome as his work but it’s pretty fun if u have the patience for it ! :) cool to see he’s still putting stuff on his page

[@YungWaris]

Guy's hardcore

[@theblackbaron4119]

Waris yeah he's living life on the edge... Drawing in MS Paint .

[@catnipluver]

The Black Baron gtfo

[@salokin3087]

RIP MS Paint

[@mjzpeanut]

nope lol

[@visjex7498]

SyncKo paint 3d just doesn't feel right imo, I can't even get it to open properly

[@CarterF86]

Salokin it didn't die

[@ClockCreature]

Shadow the Greninja yea it's not good to

[@tFighterPilot]

It doesn't need updates. It's perfect as it is.

[@boohoobigoops8040]

No matter much time has passes I always come back to watch this video.

[@nashbrandon]

Meanwhile I can't even draw my name in MS Paint...

[@Melissa0774]

I wonder if he ever used Kid Pix. That was a really good program.

[@ozzie1246]

My friends and I would spend all our lessons in the library messing around with that program! :D

[@laurelrodriguezmitton5592]

Tux. Paint.

[@rybak908]

Melissa0774 god I remember kid pix

[@doomertheboomer]

nostalgiaaaa KID PIX KID PIX COME AND PLAY WITH KID PIX

[@Melissa0774]

That site is for an actual paint company.

[@alejandror.9974]

I can't even draw a circle.... Free hand

[@navonmyhand7999]

That One Violinist Gaming Literally anyone can do that in MS Paint.

[@alejandror.9974]

Navon Myhand free hand?

[@TonyRios]

MS Paint has a circle tool.

[@navonmyhand7999]

That One Violinist Gaming Freehand? You just have to learn the patterns of circles (high-low-low-high).

[@drawingstuff6660]

That One Violinist Gaming noone can

[@icreateworlds]

This is really inspiring !!! Never thought of trying anything like this.

[@NinjarTurtle]

this requires a next level of patience

[@JamesBrown-dd6li]

Vox truly is a gem on youtube. Great video again!

[@Luhmero]

He didn't. He used photoshop for Homestuck. He did use ms paint for snother series at one point though.

[@juliette7151]

CRITIQUE: in the world of digital pixel art, this is not considered very good. it's very impressive, for a self-taught artist, but it's not /good/. first of all, they use cel-shading/flat colors, but the point of cel-shading is to employ contrasting hues so as to contour shapes with darker shadows/sharp light. here cel-shading seems to be used by default because the artist does not know how or does not want to use more sophisticated pixel art techniques such as dithering, base-specific lineart, texturing, or any sort of interesting color combinations/color variation. the color palette, sorry to say, is very bland here. where is the light source? is there even a light source here? what other colors with which to indicate value are used other than the standard white and black/grey? there is also very little sense of perspective here either. it's just a simple foreground-background composition. the anatomy also ends up making the characters look very blocky and inhuman -- *EDIT: but for god's sake. no, I'm not bitter/jealous--FAR from it. no, I'm not "attacking the artist," or attacking his style. I don't think I'm saying this out of hate. I do enjoy this piece; I think the dynamism of it, among many, many positive traits, are worth admiring. but since the purpose of this video is to shine light on the impressiveness of it all, I just want to state, very genuinely, the things I find could be improved, kinda as a counter perspective, because I feel that everything needs a multiplicity of perspectives. I mean, yes! I made a mistake. I know. I was blunt and I am seventeen and hormonal and I was having a bad day. I realize how I could've said the above in a kinder, holistic manner, focused more on thematic versus technical aspects of the piece; of course, I'm fixating, perhaps unfairly, on all these little details when art is just so more than technical skill. I do realize that, and I don't try to pretend otherwise. please understand that I'm not saying this out of spite or disgust over what may simply be the artist's stylistic choices. it just seemed dishonest (to myself) to nod and agree, unanimously with everyone else, that this is a perfect piece of work. no, I'm going to talk about what I see are areas of potential improvement, because I believe that this is what advances art, both on a personal and communal level. *also, a lot of you have replied that the artwork is good or god-tier because it was created with MS Paint. basically, you claim (and I understand this! I understand the amazement!) that the artwork should be immune to criticism and that its immunity lends itself to the simple fact that it was created with MS Paint. well, kindly hear my opinion: that's a very reductive way of thinking. MS Paint is just a medium, like any other. MS Paint is far from impossible to use; if you figure out how it works, then you can apply your artistic knowledge/skill to it. as with any other medium, there are aesthetic rules/frameworks/patterns that one must recognize and use to one's advantage, such as the artist's mention of optimal lining techniques--the avoidance of bunched up or sharply angled lines--that are specific to the medium at hand. MS Paint can be used quite comfortably--I've dedicated much of my idiot hermit days to working out the program--even without a drawing tablet, and once you stabilize your drawing hand with practice, using the mouse is not super difficult either, trust me. anything is just "practice makes perfect"--it's a gross cliche but it's correct. just because it doesn't have the nice brushes of photoshop doesn't mean that MS Paint's some hugely inferior art program or that it's so much more difficult. I personally don't agree that artists should be applauded ONLY because they "dare" to use it, y'know? thanks for understanding.

[@IrontwistFiM]

It's still pretty appealing, though.

[@samuelherbert3783]

Juliette W Isn't that all subjective though? He has a distinct style, and he says in the video he uses a simple, more blocky shading technique. Meh, I like it.

[@capfogful]

Samuel Herbert It isnt all subjective, anatomy is not subjective, neither correctly depecting space is subjective.

[@Natala00]

But isn't that the point? He has a unique and identifiable style. Judging by the sketch he showed he is probably more than capable of depicting realism, but he isn't creating or striving for ultra realism in MS Paint, he has developed a unique look and style of illustration. That style of imagery is his trademark and what he is selling.

[@SlashCampable]

Your opinion is valuable and people care. Lol

[@MizoxNG]

things like the line/curve tool, (or in some programs, the ink tool) really can produce spectacular results if used correctly. it's good stuff

[@Brunoki22]

3:53 "Drawing water is tedious" I bet lol

[@ASH_LEY000]

can u ask him how to draw santa in mspaint??

[@ryanjames3987]

JENN oh you saw that video, me too

[@ASH_LEY000]

what is life how could i not have mentioned that lol

[@ryanjames3987]

JENN yeah that was one of the best drawings I've seen using Ms paint, including adele

[@ulek_604]

Trying to save on those post cards?

[@justintep7995]

what is life It was fake, sorry. Jk

[@alaberria7617]

Then the image pixelates

[@anastasiadunbar5246]

Are you talking about JPG? Use PNG or BMP.

[@sheela6943]

I remember using MS Paint for making frames for a .gif image I was working on in Animation Shop, and wondered why each frame kept getting fuzzy. Taught me about JPEG compression. I saved frames in .JPG because I was obsessing over the filesize, even though I could just delete them afterwards. BMP is pretty much pointless now, with PNG taking its place for lossless images. Pictures with few colors really compress nicely.

[@nexus1g]

GIF using safe colors is what you want to do when saving file size. You're going to be doing GIF for the animation anyway, so might as well create each frame using it.

[@Inseut]

this is truly unique and amazing

[@k4eru20]

within the first 20 seconds i had instantly been brought back to when I was eleven and watched skilled artists' tutorials on drawing and using imitation-layers in MS Paint

[@AirCannonChannel]

Too bad MS paint is going away...

[@AaronShenghao]

nope you can find it in the Windows Accessories folder in your Windows 10 start menu

[@sashimituga]

Why were they going to "destroy" it?

[@critical2210]

AaronShenghao they are killing it in the next update You can still find it in the store...

[@TheDragonfriday]

AirCannonChannel I thought it already is gone...

[@coolcool9634]

AirCannonChannel No it's not going away. No they did not reverse any decisions. It was always going to stay on the Windows Store. Jesus Christ, kids.

[@96lopsan]

How did he erase everything but still had an outline? 2:27

[@thenikhilray99]

LOPSAN magic 😅

[@charlieshin9868]

learn how to use ms paint

[@Faloops]

Lol noob learn to ms paint please

[@maqqy]

In ms paint, there is a thing called Colour 1 and Colour 2. in Colour 1, you chose a colour you want to erase and in colour 2, chose the colour you want to change it. It will only work if you right click or else it like a big line of random colour.

[@mikado6407]

LOPSAN double selection

[@tuser8]

I personally use Clip Studio for a lot a my art, but it's often nice to go back to Paint, its layout is very simple, which can be refreshing after more complex programs. It's also good for a challenge, seeing how you create different elements with such limits. Everyone says 'It's so hard to use paint', but honestly, even if it's not my 1st choice and it doesn't have smooth brushes, it's still got an 'easy to process' design, that makes it good for everyone, I even have pictures drawn by my probably 6 (or younger) year old self somewhere. Even if it is simple, there's still little obscure tools in the program that just makes it a little more complex, like holding shift while moving selection. My point is, Paint in my opinion is better than it appears.

[@jimmymcmanus9467]

This was so satisfying to watch

[@CRIPPLINGSODIUMADDICT]

Woah ??

[@TheIndogamer]

Crash Bandicoot *WOAWOAOWAOWOAWOA*

[@kenanschwoebel8626]

Crash Bandicoot Congrats on using a dead meme.

[@eganplaysMC]

Crash Bandicoot The worst meme ever

[@ArvoDes]

BTM put you in your grave

[@kenanschwoebel8626]

Saber Chan BTM killed it.

[@robyyyne]

It doesn't matter if he did it in MS paint or if he would do it in Photoshop or gimp or manga studio. People are different with different programs, some are good at Photoshop, some are good at MS Paint. It's an accomplishment to do good art, even if you do it in a shitty program and it turns out amazing.

[@dannypavlov913]

Nah, the dude is stuck at a very low level and it's probably because if the program and tools. Tools do matter in art.

[@TyphlosionGirl]

Danny Pavlov Yet you fail to realize that MS Paint has tools that other programs do not offer. Think of it like this, this should not be a comparison between better and worse tools, rather different FIELDS of tools. Example: A person who their art with copic marker, versus one who does it with oil based paint. One of those tools is newer than the other but that does not explicitly make it better than the other. Both have their pros and cons- the same can be said about MSP and other newer art programs. As an artist who's used both I can say that non of the new programs that I've used so far have come with a modifiable eraser that allows the replacement of only one specific color to another specified color. While this is navigable issue of preference that can more or less be solved with layers, alpha lock etc, it's more a matter of preference than anything else. In the end it's about what you feel comfortable using.

[@renookami4651]

"non of the new programs that I've used so far have come with a modifiable eraser that allows the replacement of only one specific color to another specified color" That's because most programs do have a dedicated "color replacement" tool for that. The only thing somehow unique to MSpaint I can think of is the "3rd color selection" instead of two like in other programs; but again some programs memorises either a palette or the recently used colors for good workflow without needing that one option. 45° line lock and other stuff like that can be found elswere as well. As for "being a specialised tool", there's way better pixel-based programs. With GraphicGale becoming freeware there's quite powerful tools aviable for free. This don't make his artwork worse or anything, but I fail at seeing what do MSpaint have that is so special, exept the "mascot" role it gained over the years.

[@marshallcarteranddarkltd.3137]

mate i agree

[@rocker7819]

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[@stardum123]

If someone said to me a draw a face on ms Paint I can't but the way u did with ms Paint is amazing. Great work man hatts off to u

[@d.w952]

Back when I first started drawing digitally I only used MS Paint because I had no other software or knowledge thereof of things like SAI, nor a tablet. It was heaps of fun and really satisfying, although I love using my tablet now to draw stuff I still love MS Paint. It has a certain charm about the way it produces art :)

[@21MilesAhead]

I bet everyone is super surprised and amazed by this video and instantly wants to try the same on their paint WELL, ya'll not even gonna be able to draw a straight line smh

[@renzevenir4853]

Drawing straight line and perfect circle is pretty easy

[@freeziboi3249]

IRFZ44 considering there are tools for them.

[@xgullafter9590]

not when you're good at art

[@gayMath]

STRAIGHT LINE TOOL, DIPSHIT

[@stankfanger1366]

*+Caged Egg* Damn, you _just_ beat me to it. Nicely done.

[@DaishinZlrex]

I'm not a painter so I'm totally don't have any idea what going on but why MS paint getting a lot of hate? Can somebody explain it to me why?

[@drawingstuff6660]

SkullGM because it's bad

[@arielgharsi]

the sound of his mic matches perfectly with the quality of his drawings

[@klajdimyftari4691]

Beautiful! Bravo!

[@PyroandTwig]

*His life and career dies with MS Paint*

[@mete3254]

PyroandTwig _ But his art doesnt.

[@kirar5522]

*Paint is not going to be deleted, it's just a software, you can even download any version*

[@lizardiculous4144]

kirill rumyancev - Yes but what happens when computers become too advanced to recognize the old software/program. Similar story with old computer games.

[@sceerane8662]

Lizard iculous that’s probably a while off by this point, And due to the standardisation of computers it’ll probably take much longer than it has in the past.

[@sabyasachisingh5931]

Lizard iculous Ever heard of emulators? You can play computer games from 90s on any modern system. You can always emulate an older system architecture on any modern system.

[@Combat1]

this is better than talking about politics

[@AbrahamMast]

Agreed. I really enjoy Vox's non-political videos. Their political ones are really annoying and really left biased.

[@LuisCasstle]

You had to go there though.

[@SteampunkAxolotl]

Preach.

[@johnnybadmen3473]

Rumble rumble rumble... DONALD TRUMP!!! Rumble rumble rumble... NET NEUTRALITY!!! Rumble rumble rumble... TAX CUTS!!! Rumble rumble rumble... SEXUAL HARASSMENT!!! Rumble rumble rumble... JERUSALEM!!! Rumble rumble rumble... MS Paint. ....What was I just thinking about?

[@justjourney9792]

Anything but politics.

[@Brenna_stubbs]

Bless this man

[@CaptainBlackass]

i was never any good at drawing, but i LOVED using MSPaint to doodle stuff. this is great right here. i was terrible at using the pencil tool, but that line tool was my jam, i can make EVERYTHING out of straight lines.

[@johngreen8465]

while everyone is saying "rip ms paint" I'm here using paint . net This may cause a temporary dip in the meme economy, but there are hundreds of bad digital art programs out there, free.

[@Gamesaucer]

Paint dot net has an awful interface when you're first getting started with the program though. It's very unfriendly for beginners, to the point where I even found GIMP easier to learn than paint dot net. It's how easy paint is to get into that makes it great, and I haven't yet found a program that can replace it in that regard. I'd even go as far as to say that paint dot net is the WORST possible choice to replace paint with.

[@peanutbumber2858]

John Green Im using it too sometimes i use paint too

[@KingS-gw6su]

Paint . net has an easy interface for me, but I'm using an older version so thats probably why

[@cornflakes5007]

*imagine if he used a laptop*

[@lovacrybaby7176]

@@CedarTallman They have touchpads

[@bukolaatinsola6226]

That's cheating!!!!

[@moonjellybaby]

I use a laptop on MS paint.

[@misspickljuice]

well a lot of laptop users have a mouse.

[@carterpoker7567]

Amazing detail.

[@akashyourbuddy]

That was one extremely talented man. He applied his brain and made something so beautiful with a tool which the company itslef couldn't advertise that it could do what he did.

[@pandupujo3917]

An artist : create an art from MS Paint A Japanese old artist : hold my MS Excel Yes, this is real. That Japanese use MS Excel because he is too cheap to buy Photoshop

[@leodavinxi3402]

This guy: Me:Struggles to create a line in MS Paint.

[@ninjartist36]

Just use the line tool

[@shezahvlogs90]

Amazing artwork

[@yuvarajkarthick8797]

😱😯 wow! no words. amazing!💯👍 first time i see create a cartoon using by ms paint.

[@dragos5640]

2:08 Triggerd

[@ashenky]

I once did a stickman with Ms paint.

[@delparko5165]

Kadir Nokay lets see

[@ashenky]

Derek Parker never

[@weezerfan70]

How?

[@sabikikasuko6636]

I mean, who's great drawing, will be great drawing with whatever program he has at hand. Paint only gives less tools, but the basics, a pen, a bucket, a eraser, a selector and a zoom tool, are everywhere. The rest is pure, one of the roughest skill

[@rickyjogai8849]

Only Vox could have cover such stories. I am addicted to this channel.

[@ratshitstrap8622]

"Hey Boss looks like your using ms paint so i went ahead and deleted it for you" - Clippy, head CEO of Microsoft, Windows update department

[@deleted1665]

I would like to hear an interview with that guy who drew the Mona Lisa In ms paint

[@circlemot2389]

gosh....that's amazing.

[@badgerscorner8529]

Nice to see other people talk about Hergè and Tintin outside of the animated movie. Love those books