Which is better, Photoshop or MSPaint?

Dubious Drewski · Feb 6, 2009

I'm having a hard time deciding

Some friends and I were sitting in a Tim Horton's tonight, talking about photography and checking out a new mini laptop a friend had bought. There was nothing yet installed, so we started jokingly playing around in MSPaint. One person drew the lady, then another person took the laptop and drew the flower, we each took turns adding something until we had the upper image.

I took the laptop and copied the MSPaint image to my thumb drive. I then brought it home and later tonight, fired up photoshop. I painted over the image as closely as I could. The bottom image is all hand drawn with only the MSPaint image as reference.

I'm now pretty tired. What do you all think?

beni_hung · Feb 6, 2009

Haha great story. Nice painting skills. I haven't even attempted it on PS yet.

stsinner · Feb 6, 2009

That's very good.

Overread · Feb 6, 2009

pfft your just not trying hard enough in paint
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2sPl_Z7ZU]YouTube - How to paint the MONA LISA with MS PAINT[/ame]

Dubious Drewski · Feb 6, 2009

Those MSPaint videos are fantastic. I've probably seen them all before. I don't know what I'd do without layers and soft edged brushes.

mikemicki · Feb 6, 2009

Way cool. I'd hang the photoshop one on my wall for sure.

LarissaPhotography · Feb 6, 2009

Good times. Geeky, but fun.

Dubious Drewski · Feb 7, 2009

Hey, I'm taking requests if anyone wants to offer something. Give me a crazy idea or even a crazy image to modify into something.

This was my first digital painting in almost six years. I liked doing this and I want to do more.

Hooligan Dan · Feb 7, 2009

I would love to use that bottom one as my desktop

Dubious Drewski · Feb 7, 2009

Hey, if you want it big, I've already created an upsampled version because a weird friend of mine wants to make a 12X36" print from it.

Here you go. Do with it what you like.

http://www.andysuderman.com/1/StickDrawing.jpg

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WTF? · Feb 7, 2009

man that photoshop one is so awesome, its got that creepy....deformed....realistic....fake look to it.

TwoRails · Feb 7, 2009

LOL! That's funny

Dubious Drewski · Feb 10, 2009

I wonder, does anyone have any ideas for another one? I'd really love to paint some more, but I don't really have the creativity to come up with an idea for myself.