Paint an Album
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11am, Wednesday April 29th, 2009Comment
Tags: music, photoshop
On the train back to York from Last.fm’s Hack Day last year, Alice introduced me to pixel art (her post on Guess Who is a great example of this style). At the time, I remember making some comment about how she’d effectively ruined my degree because making pictures of people from dots of colour would be my life from then on. To be honest, it never really caught on with me – I think I’m just naturally crap at drawing people.
However, that’s all just changed. I found a thread on a music site entitled "MS Paint Your Favorite Album", encouraging users to recreate the front covers of iconic or important albums (to them) using the standard Paint included with Windows.
If you’ve got thirty minutes or an hour spare, it’s a really great way to spend some time. I wanted something simple to start with, and I think this turned out pretty well.
So, give it a go: Microsoft Paint if you’re on Windows, the open source Paintbrush if you’re on a Mac. No layers, no fancy text tools, no nothing. Brush, line tool, eraser… and get to it, without forgetting to post the results somewhere.
My name’s Alex Muller.
You know that this is going to suck up *so* much more of my time than it should, and the results will be total and utter balls. It’s like being 7 again and trying to draw cool stuff in paint. As vpjayant would say: ‘epic fail’
That’s awesome. What music site? I’m intrigued…
The mirage: forums.php?action=viewthread&threadid=46663
right. should have called that.