Gradient

This is truly the pinnacle of MS Paint achievement. If I didn't know better I would think I was abusing the gradients that tools like Flash and Photoshop have made ubiquitous. But I do know better. This was very tediously done in MS Paint. I hope you enjoy it.

Gradient Flash!

For this piece I decided to play with gradients I like them and they look nice. They take forever, of course, but that's a relatively minor issue since I just think it looks nice. The beak looks like a rising sun showing his ability to crow in the morning.

Not sure why my pace has fallen, but I'll probably just post more things.

Speed Run Gradient

This took longer than I expected it to. I should have known better. Gradients take a long time every time. But it came out pretty well all in all. I think it worked pretty well

Sunset 2

In this piece I chose to focus on generating a gradient like backdrop to emphasize the dark silhouette I had created. A sunset was the obvious choice for the nature of the gradient, as it often creates a natural shadowing. Moving from grey to red to orange to yellow in small but distinct steps.

Underwater?

Well, I was chit chattering with a buddy today and we discussed how he's still having some trouble with new MS Paint. So, after faiing to get old MS Paint to work on his computer I recommended mtPaint. He decided against it, but I went, "You know. I haven't used that in quite a while." So I used it. Then I fiddled with it's fancy gradient tool and this is what I got. I'm a bit disappointed I couldn't get the gradient to semi-transparently sit on top of the whole image of course. (Especially sine that's what the preview does) You know. when I play with fancy things I wanna do fancy things. Oh yes. This is the best sorta gradient by the way. The two color sort. I could do it by hand if I weren't a tad lazy. Well, I've done the other sort by hand too. It's easier actually But more like busy work.