It Must Be Art...

[jjpor]

So, I was looking at clocketpatch 's nice bit of Nine + Ten artwork, and I was inspired to try my hand. My scanner's broken, so I did this in MS Paint, which is probably the sign of an obsessive personality or something:



It's Morbius, before he was a brain in a jar (or some evil-looking Time Lord, at any rate!) His little clasp/tiepin whatever was supposed to be a Moebius Strip, because, well, Morbius, Moebius; they're similar, right??

Comments

[clocketpatch]

YOU DID THAT IN PAINT!?? I am officially very, very, very impressed.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I does seem a little perverse, I suppose, when there are any number of better drawing applications I could probably download for free, to soldier on painstakingly with the old Paint, but I don't know, I'm kind of used to it by now. There's something therapeutic about zooming into 8X magnification and drawing something one pixel at a time (trying to draw things freehand in Paint is, I find, a futile exercise). Anyway, glad you liked!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

My son prefers Paint for that very reason, he likes the pixel-by-pixel thing... a bit like building with legos I think. I've got to show him this, he'll love it.

[clocketpatch]

The result has a great 80s video game about it that I love. If you want to download a shareware program I recommend The Gimp, or GimpShop (which is what I use) it's free and it works very nicely. The only problem is that it was originally developed for Linux (I think?) and occasionally crashes spectacularly, but it works very nicely for my simple purposes, yes, yes it does.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess it does look like the sort of graphics you used to get on those 80s adventure games, back in the days when computers ran on casette tapes and Colin Baker had a blond perm! I'll have to give the Gimp a whirl one of these days. Now, I have disturbing mental images of Pulp Fiction...