Thread 7700234

I exclusively draw in ms paint. How much am I limiting myself and is it worth learning something else if I just want to draw oekaki style shit like picrel (not my art) anyways?
>INB4 why do you use paint
Because:
>Can just start drawing - you don't have to spend time messing with settings or brushes. It even opens on a blank canvas
>Comfy aliased brushes built in
>I'm used to it
>I am bad at controlling my line weight with pen pressure anyways.
>Its already installed on my PC

>>7700234 (OP)
>How much am I limiting myself
Aside from lack of layers and blending tools you can still do lighting like a traditional artist by choosing the right values and colors.

>>7700234 (OP)
What's really limiting yourself is saying stuff like
>I'm used to it
>I am bad at ...
If you want to be good, you'll have to try new things, you'll have to spend a lot of time experimenting.

Anyway, Krita and its pixel art brushes are free. Layers aside, there are layer effects, like transparency, multiply layers for easy shadows, etc. There are rulers and other perspective tools, you can select an area and draw on it, you can shift the colors around with filters. You can import a photo and add filter mask -> posterize -> gradient map to black and white, which is what a lot of manga artists do for backgrounds. A lot of this is common to every drawing software. People will ask why paint because paint isn't very powerful.

All valid reasons. Keep using paint my nigga

How can you stand not having layers?

>>7700322
>draw sketch "layer" in light gray
>draw line art on top of sketch
>erase gray parts
you need more?

bait used to be believable

>>7700234 (OP)
sounds retarded. just having layers would save you 100 of hours in the long run.

>>7700335
It was a rhetorical question. Maybe you'd like aseprite.

>>7700234 (OP)
You want to use paint, keep using paint. Dmitry Deceiver of Loop Hero fame uses only Paint, I know a few dudes who only use Paint. It you like using it and you're not arguing with it, there's no issue. I like layers, weighted opacity, lasso tools and pencil brushes, but you use whatever you like.

Just remember
>nobody is impressed anymore
>it's not an excuse for being shit
>it's not an excuse for shitting out poor work, you don't get to congratulate yourself on being a big fish in a small pond, even by MS Paint standards you are shit

>>7700234 (OP)
Well it depends on what your goals are with your art. You wanna draw oekaki style shit, but for what purpose? Just to get (You)'s? Likes on social media? Commission work? I think if thats what you are aiming for in terms of goals then I would say sure just keep at it with MS Paint, although I do hope you are actually using some type of tablet as to avoid getting arthritis and claw hand from just using a mouse all day.
However I would recommend getting like a good marker/brush pen and practice doodling on paper. Half the appeal of this art is how on the fly it is so being able to practice drawing like that is a must.

All I want is something like Tegaki that lets me save between sessions

>open ms paint (formo de xp)
>set brush size to 5 pixels with ctrl + numpad
>draw
>print it out on shitty printer
>trace over it with a pen on light pad
>scan it back in at 1200dpi
>up contrast and convert to 1 bit
>open ms paint (forma de 7)
>clean up and redraw parts manually replicating the noise of real life pen lines
>print it out on good laser printer
>color it
>scan it back in
>color correct
Yep, it's drawing time.
(i don't actually start digitally often anymore)

>>7700343
not bait i always draw like this. sometimes i use aseprite but its not the same

>>7700234 (OP)
you people drawing in ms paint? what a downfall

>>7706914
its a simple life

>>7706914
wdym you people

>>7700357
Zoomers don't know that MSpaint artwork being 'impressive' was only true in windows versions prior to 7. When it had only a round pixel brush, a flat pixel brush, a pixel spray can and an eraser. All the new brushes are anti-mspaint spirit b

>>7700234 (OP)
If you are able to dual boot your pc or you are a linux distro user. i recommend you to use Azpainter. Is pretty much Paint Tool Sai + Photoshop and has brushes and graphics capacities similar to oekaki brushes.

Use krita. It's free and you can draw just as archaic as you like. You will just enjoy quality if life perks like layers and configuring, changing sizes and rotating as you like

>>7710769
>Use krita. It's free


No retard. Krita's fill tool doesnt even work properly even compared to mspaint. It always leaves a tiny 1 pixel line around what you're filling in for no reason. No other painting program does this.

>>7711219
skill issue
it only happens if you're using brushes that aren't anti aliased. If you use a pixel brush (a default brush on krita) you would have the same experience as mspaint pencil. This is actually the same as other art programs, but judging by your post you don't really know how to make or customize brushes. Sad!

>>7700234 (OP)
>fanged noumena
I haven't heard that in a while, I don't even know where my copy is

>>7709859
windows 11 paint even has layers, transparency and built in ai tools now, i hate it.

>>7711219
works fine, you just have to adjust the settings depending on the result you want. in fact it's more customizable and better than most art software.

Doesn't the guy that drew girls last tour use mspaint quite a bit?

>>7711219
Quick question but are you chinese?