MSPaintbrush and MSPaint drawing filtered/echoed in Chris Shier web app thing.
Not made in the Microsoft Store.
mspaint*
portrait of Lena
The source photo is a webcam posted to dump.fm by Lena; this drawing was done in Paint (as in Microsoft). Am interested in the point where the self-portrait becomes a portrait and some third, fictional being comes into existence.
And no, this is not supposed to be Lena D*nham, the celebrity artist offspring of the moment. This is the interesting Lena.
vegetable stand
...is I guess what you'd call this. Based on a photo of some food stylist insanity that became a minor dump.fm meme.
The objective here was to try some old-school painting using the "improved," Windows 7, Paint program.
You can't blend worth a damn so the only way to build up any volume is with scratchy strokes where the slight transparency of the edges overlaps. In physical media it's probably analogous to the crosshatching with egg tempera glazes famously practiced by Paul Cadmus. The result is a little uncomfortably close to illustration for me (as opposed to "photorealism," if that term has any meaning when making a computer rendering eyeballing a photo).
c'mere, you
Hand of famous woman convicted of murder by the shrieking harpies of the press, then acquitted when actually tried.
Essentially a local story that wouldn't have been a national cause had the woman not been -- what's the word -- hot.
blue seed 2
jpeg of MSPaintbrush drawing
the original (larger) GIF: 840 x 720 is more dramatic, I think, but too wide for the blog. Resizing as a GIF creates artifacts so I went with (ugh) jpeg