#mspaint my beloved art program

[zickzad1002]

darktail my beloved yet beloathed

cw: kinda poorly drawn blood + minor eyestrain around the muzzle

someone tell this idiot to clean the blood off his face he has to confront his dad about his dead mom for the fifth time this week in ten minutes

[tgcg]

ms paint. you know her. u used her age 8 to make loads of rainbow ovals all over the canvas and then scramble it with selection tool. now u will know her true powers with my handyrandy tips under the readmore. some will be pretty basic and others are very special.

this post has 8 cool trix to learn for you. enjoy and i may do another in the future if i remember/learn more stuff

some of it might be common knowledge. but its got some deep cuts. all tips have gifs to show process easily.

🙂 enjoy and i hope this encourages you to fuck around in mspaint more

soundtrack for this post (loop it while you learn for advanced learning experience)

TIP 1) the right click trick

left and right mouse click correspond to col1 and col2 respectively, which u can see in the top bar. this applies to all brushes and the fill tool like above. when using shapes col2 will be the fill colour (if you have solid fill selected). right clicking with shape maker will reverse the colours use on the shape.

TIP 2) right click eraser

this one is extremely helpful for lineart or add shading. the eraser always uses col2. so your eraser can technically be any colour. but here's where you get powers: right clicking with eraser will only erase onto col1, with col2.

TIP 3) transparent selection change a guy destination

the beloved transparent selection tool works based on what is selected as col2. so long as you have the correct colour as col2 you can make any image transparent and put it on top of anything else. and yes this works with photo bg as you can see.

TIP 4) the gradience

this one is a little more complex. you want to start off with any canvas size, and make as many diagonal coloured bands as you want. (protip: holding down shift makes a perfectly diagonal line with line tool)

then you need to resize the canvas to a width of 1px (make sure you resize by pixels, and do not maintain aspect ratio). then resize again back to its original width (or a different width i cant stop you). you will have your lovely gradience.

TIP 5) superimposter

so. you got a cool gradient and wanna put a guy on it. heres what i do:

i open a 2nd mspaint with same canvas size and draw whatever i want on there. i then pick a completely unrelated colour to my entire piece, and set that as the bg. you could use white, pink, geen, whatever you want as long as it doesnt appear somewhere else in ur drawing. copy the guy.

go back to your gradient tab. ensure that col2 is set as that bg colour you picked (lilac for me). have "transparent selection" enabled. paste your guy in. cue fanfare

TIP 6) advanced superimposter

the great thing about this method is u can put multiple gradients in multiple areas of the image. this is where it gets all japanese printmaking type of shit. ukiyo-esque

all you need to do is make another canvas with a new gradient, ensure col2 is set as the colour you want to replace, then paste your original piece onto the new gradient. now my guy has a soft fade. you can do this as much as you want. (you could even make a canvas with a texture or photo and paste your drawing onto there)

TIP 7) "sketch layer"

so as you now know, col2 is what is removed when you click "transparent selection". which means you can also remove any instance of a colour from ur drawing. which means you can have a unique colour for sketch layer and remove it from the drawing later. i admittedly dont do this but it is a great trick to have.

now combine this with lowering your dpi for smoother lines. may seem obvious but it helps. its like a free stabiliser whenever u want.

TIP 8) rainbow art

now this is where you can get dizzee rascal "bonkers". check out my small and shitty rainbow trick. you can select anything and hold down shift, then drag with left mouse, to turn that selection into its own brush. i even did it with a guy. and you can of course do this with a photo as well.

🙂well that it for now. hope you liked it thanks for reading now back to your regularly scheduled tgcg programming

[ms-madness]

WAIT A SECOND!! YOU!! STOP RIGHT THERE!!!

Now that I have your attention, I have an important question;;

PROS OF MSPAINT;

Ms Paint beloved

I can get things done very fast! usually more than 1 drawing daily!

Loads up very fast, Saves really easy!

CONS OF MSPAINT;

Coloring Hell. Hell. I MEAN it. why does the fill tool do that, why does it think certain greys are black? Save me

inconsistent designs!

No place to store a Ref Image (goes hand in hand with Inconsistent designs)

PROS OF OTHER PROGRAM;;

Designs can stay consistent, it's important to note the style will not be changing at all

Colors! MORE of them! Hurray!

Ref pictures... Better color picking. Beloved.

LAYERS. MORE POSES. MAYBE

CONS OF OTHER PROGRAM;;

Schedule may get wonky, Posting may get a little inconsistent at times

Less Crunchy look :(

takes fucking forever to load and save things because i REFUSE to close any of my projects since The Last Time.

adding things to images is hell, this guy HATES transparency.

[strawbyfield]

I just wanna say your art is amazing ! And I also downloaded your free wiggle and pixel brush I’ve been using em allot ! Ah I just wanna ask will you be making more brush sets in the near future :3 ? Or what other brushes do yeah use for yeah art works ?

Thank you so much for the kind words!

I’m flattered that so many people have been enjoying my brushes… and yes, I would like to make more in the future!

Currently my brushes are just things I’ve made on a whim to satisfy my specific tastes when I can’t quite find things that suit them… So I’m not really sure WHAT exactly I might make next.

I do have some brushes I’ve made but haven’t released though, so maybe at some point I’ll upload those for people to use?

When it comes to brushes I use that I haven’t made, I’ve been enjoying these (https://georgvw.gumroad.com/l/free_procreate_ink_brushes )lovely brushes… Particularly you might have spotted the duo and trio liner on occasion, but I really enjoy fading edge as well.

I’ve also used the airbrush brushes from this ms paint inspired set (https://folio.procreate.com/discussions/10/28/47564)… I really enjoy how crunchy they are. Big fan of the ms paint look in general.

I also of course can’t NOT mention Halftone Hospital. Halftones are so fun to include and add a lovely texture… the brushes from the Basic Tone (https://halftonehospital.gumroad.com/l/basictonekit) set are actually what I used for my Grujaja halftone drawing!

I’ve ALSO also really been enjoying the CY-ber brushes from cy(https://ko-fi.com/s/f2fadfe1e5)! They have this really lovely retro art program quality to them and I personally find a favourite in the halftones included as well (specifically the CrossFit and CrossFit mini brushes)

And last… but not least… default procreate spraypaint brush my beloved. I love this guy. Never lets me down.

[bluebeerg]

Feed me, Illie. Feed me all night long.

A little Halloween treat for our beloved Illie, and it comes with a singing blood-thirsty Portfish - It's her own Little Shop of Horrors!

I watched the movie the first time in October and got a little into it. Thought of Illie and her... one out of five lines of dialogue, but I think it's fun to imagine songs from the musical with adapted lyrics - "The guy sure looks like Portfood to me. The guy sure looks like Portfood to me!" - though I wouldn't know who to make the other characters

Below the cut are things that managed to stick around on the canvas, so I'm just going to explain both MSPaint thangs and adaptation AU things down there ... It's, uh... It's awfully long-winded.

Here's something rare. Because layers don't exist on MSPaint (I don't care for Windows 11 and AI image generation), you'll have to settle for other methods. One of them is just drawing over with another colour, since MSPaint has that cool eraser trick, and this is the other that makes use of MSPaint's faux-transparency. I'd always think of them like. "save states". Drawing in this program always was like the Ship of Theseus anyway.

The purpose of these were to, for whatever reason - whether it's making a mistake or erasing/drawing over too much or because of MSPaint's sometimes short undo memory, they're there to copy sections (or the whole thing if you want) and paste unto the one you're working on, like a bandaid. Or, if you've messed the whole thing up, you've got the back-up right there. It's the save state! For this, the arm and the shape of the Portfish gave me some trouble - which is why the sketch and just the lined part was put aside. It helps that MSPaint is so pixels and you're able to move the selected thing with the arrow keys.

This is kind of a big example, where the whole drawing is put to the side, but it can be smaller things too. For this, it was cases of arms and her glasses and buckets and Portfish (as seen later below) etc.

Here's a example that I managed to dig up from Artfight of Binx that shows both drawing with different colours and the scattered bits put to the side.

Obviously the right was a WIP. These things never stick around when getting to the final product, so having all of these Illies stick around after was great to write this much about. Moving on...

When drawing Find Everything, I do try to stick to the art style (while incorporating my own elements) - but I feel as if Illie is much more realistic compared to, say, Capri or Mayor Majig who's emphasis is on silhouette and strong poses. For example, hands. Hands in Find Everything can be varied, but are always consistent and usually simple or cartoonish. Capri has circles for hands, Mayor Majig has mitten for hands. But I look at Illie and her four-fingered hand (not uncommon, Orsten and Ratthew have them too), the subtle distinction between her shoulder and her arm, the roundness of her elbow (which has inconveniently been erased...), the single fabric fold on her dress, the shape of her hand against her hip...

What was I talking about? Oh, right, somewhat adhering to Find Everything's art style where possible. I always like to keep in mind other characters when drawing. Seymour Illie's (Illie Krelborn's?) fly specifically call back to Chatti, while her collar and cuffs nod to Mayor Majig (although his coat's cuffs are only sometimes seen, and I would've liked to have Illie's collar flared out more to match Seymour's) - though, I did briefly think to have a triangular neckline, but a rounder one is a nice connection to Illie's original sprite. Another was placing Seymour's iconic glasses on top of Illie's head instead of it being in her hair - a big part of it being because of how the bridge of the glasses blending into Illie's hair, but the other being because I think Illie is needing of a top-of-the-head accessory as a stand-in for her sunhat. After all, both drawing and seeing her without the accessory was a bit odd. But I did look to other glasses-wearing NPCs for that and, I suppose fun fact, I guess Purrtrude and Bouncer (and I suppose Radical Duck) are the only characters who have a gap between the lenses of their glasses to have a bridge- despite the number of NPCs that wear sunglasses. I did also think of Lennard, who has those solid white glasses lens, which Purrtrude does have also.

I did worry a little about the cream of the vest outlining the zipper line breaking the art style (only Ratthew really has the line of his zipped-up jacket showing), which is why you see the three of them showing a difference there - but I decided to hell with it. The Find Everything NPC art style is versatile and changing anyhow, and the back of Seymour's vest is that same colour. I felt the same with the pants pockets, but I wasn't too worried about it since... It was plausible enough, and Seymour puts his hands in his pockets enough for it to matter. To me, at least (I call back to his little bridge in Feed Me where he wanders over to the mirror). It kind of went similarly with the pattern on her dress shirt - Seymour's subtly patterned shirts were important to me, and I think it just looked better.

The Illie on the right shows the original idea for her expressed in the sketch above, where she has the glasses in her hair, none of that beige in the middle or pant decoration.

You would think it would be a bit of pre/mid-sketch, but I drew these in the middle of lineart (or colouring, I don't remember) out of boredom or need of change, and out of the possible need to have an obstructed look at Illie in her Little Shop outfit. It did help regardless in terms of messing with colours though, and quickly redrawing Illie's sprite was fun.

Speaking on colours, the left one uses altered default MSPaint colours, the right uses altered colours picked from Illie's sprite - with the browns coming from Illie's dress, the beige coming from her yellow accents (which just turned into a sad yellow-green), and the shirt coming from her sunhat. The middle, of which is the final and accepted Seymour Illie, uses a combination of the two.

Portfish things! It was a bit of a struggle to make Portfish look less like a goofy little guy and more like a living, intelligent, and conniving creature.

Its walleyes were a bit of a problem, before I realised when drawing it that wait... Portfish doesn't need eyes. Especially if Illie gets to look more like Seymour, then it being without eyes makes it look closer to Audrey II. It also reminds me of the Flappy Fish in Bloohoo Beach. If they can be without mouths, who's to say Portfish can't be without eyes!

I did want to keep it's iconic gaping mouth, but it never did sit right - kind of looks like a leech, no? - and the Portfish can close its mouth anyway (thus a different shape), so its wicked smile was a fine excuse enough.

There was also something about the state of the bucket, whether it would be lined or lineless. Originally, I wanted the bucket to be lineless to imitate the 3D word and objects of Find Everything, but it clearly looked better for it to be cohesive to Illie. It's not like it's entirely unheard of for NPCs to use temporary 2D props either (see: Epic Monkey signing the Celebrity Autograph).

Some other variations to the water bucket I had thought of was adding a state of rust or wear to it, with it being alike to the dinky used can that Seymour first puts Audrey II in, or having it be a beach toy-like bucket as Illie is found in Bloohoo Beach (and it could be a little nod to the Sandcastle Thing, with it's toy spade), but ultimately these were left only as brainstorms for time, as I wanted to finish drawing this in time for Halloween fhsdkh (which it was, this whole spiel is what took it so long to be uploaded here)

And yeah... That's it! Something about the water having that wavy pattern to resemble the water texture of Find Everything, and yep! There's that for you! The End. Don't Feed the Ports or something.

[cowcowwow]

What items/programs do you use to draw? Are there any other arts you do? :O

HEHE!! I use IbisPaint with my finger on my phone, and for animations, either EZGIF or Flipaclip!! (I also sometimes do a wretched method that involves screen recording and hitting undo a bunch but shhhh tucking that under the bed)

I used to use MSPaint with a mouse! But I thinkk that was before I joined Tumblr >:3

Also using Adobe for school,, YAYY!!

Aside from that!! I draw traditionally A LOT FGSB mostly just doodles, but I love painting and using markers!!! Also graphite is my BELOVED HEHEHE

I also sometimes write stories and poems and lyrics,, and I sing and play the drums hehe!!!

[garfieldthekiller]

Welcome to my blog :)

I'm just a 20+ year old painfully trying to improve my art in some way with an art style that's as inconsistent as my motivation.

Here you'll find little comics (soon), reblogs of other talented artists and just my (fan)art including fandoms like

Stardew Valley my beloved (certified Sebastian and Alex simp 🤭)

Baldur's Gate 3 (Astarion my beloved <3 )

Legend of Zelda

Detroit become human

Etc depending on my vibe and motivation

Programs i often use btw are: ibispaint, mspaint and Krita (all free)

Enjoy your stay!

[jojasimp]

finally set up my drawing tablet again and chose medibang for my main art program (mspaint windows xp version is my secondary, mspaint my beloved)

[azulehaven-fr]

Thea (left) and her mother, Corra (right.)

Corra tries to tend to her daughter’s wounds after breaking up the fight between her and her half-brother, Adeptus. --------------- I love their respective tertiary genes but WOW are they a pain to draw.

[dailygtwscar]

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What art program do you use?

I mainly use Clip Studio Paint but sometimes I might use MsPaint or doodle on paper.

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I really love Scar's content and I thought it would be cool to start an account for just posting doodles of him.

I'm mainly doing this to post some art ideas I can't fully illustrate and most importantly, for fun!! I'm hoping to keep this account running for as long as I could!

As for the Tumblr blog itself, i just thought it would be really neat to have people from Tumblr interact with my doodles! The more the merrier, amirite?