Author illustrates book using MS Paint after spending 10 years mastering it | Hacker News Reader

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

boredpanda.com

89 pointspmcpinto18 comments

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.

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

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.)

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

Recommended soundtrack:

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

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

"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...

Available in Sweden, however.

Arrr, 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Wow, impressive!

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.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com