Draw a car in MS paint!

[DanClarke]

A lot of effort involved, but the dimensions of the car look very iffy to me. Not to take anything from him, but i really wouldnt spend the time in MSPaint to draw something like that just to prove a point.

[MashPotato]

Those that can't criticise, those that can do.

I don't understand this. Can you rephrase?

I think he means "those who can't, criticize; those who can, do"

[Nikolas]

Those that can't criticise, those that can do.

I don't understand this. Can you rephrase?

I think he means "those who can't, criticize; those who can, do"

That's a shame and an ill missconception!

Helm, Eric, Dan Clarke, all have amazing skills in art! And DO, definately DO, so... :-/

[Helm]

Candle, is that what you mean?

[Candle]

Those that can't criticise, those that can do.

I don't understand this. Can you rephrase?

Naa I'm drawing a car.

[Helm]

You can't answer a simple question with a direct answer that doesn't involve a huge dubious smiley?

[evenwolf]

For starters the guy has skill!

But what this brought to my attention wasn't one artist and his car.  (someone said this could have taken him two hours, with fraps I say this could have taken him weeks)   Like those Mario videos that everybody got all hyped up about - they forgot that anybody could save in emulators and take as many shots as possible in any given level and combine the video into one seemless file.

BUT!   I like the concept of frapsing (sp?) the process of drawing.     So let's see more of that, eh?   What say you?

[Candle]

Come on Helm, your smarter then that to know what I mean.

[MarVelo]

Its annoying when people make horrible art in MS Paint and blame it on the program because I use it for EVERYTHING I make and I like to think that my stuff comes out quite nicely, if not professional but above the par of most AGS games.

[Janik]

But why bother sticking with MSPaint? You'd just waste time and cause yourself unnecessary aggravation.

[Ali]

This is an amusing video, but I find cars and the drawing of cars immensely dull.

Come on Helm, your smarter then that to know what I mean.

To head-off a problem, I think this means: "Come on Helm, you're smart enough to know what I mean."

I also think it's perfectly acceptable to criticise something you can't do. I can't sing, but I know James Blunt's songs are awful.

[big brother]

Since he relies so heavily on the curve command, I'd say he's taking shortcuts most real pixel artists wouldn't. It takes good technique to draw a smooth looking curve in low res. Between using curves at a higher res and the video compression, he bypasses AA and other techniques. He could also save a lot of time if he bothered learning keyboard shortcuts. Oh, wait that would be cheating, right, since it makes it easier.

From a less specific art standpoint, his piece is uninteresting. He picks his colors when he's working against a white background, which will monkey with the perception of other values. Some of the lighting is weird, since the front windshield has a glare from a backlight, yet the hood doesn't show this. It's fairly obvious he's drawing from a photo reference. At the same time, I've never seen a sports car look so drab and unexciting.

If you want to use the novelty of a shitty program, there are worse out there. Some of my first experiments with pixel were done in a QBasic program that used the arrow keys to move the cursor (+ and - to change colors between the default EGA palette). 

I would speculate that he hasn't posted the BMP anywhere because it looks significantly underwhelming at full size without compression.

[Haddas]

Well I liked it.