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# Fortunately I can't draw for toffee
and using Paint and a mouse only exacerbates that. So I don't worry about if it looks good or not and just rely on Paint fucking up saving to a GIF to give things a nice speckly finish to make it look even more quilt-like.
(, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 23:35, archived)
# I love the interesting dithering effects you get in paint
E.g.:
(, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 23:39, archived)
# I love it too :)
I've played around on and off for a couple of years drawing something in Paint saving it to bitmap then rotating it in GIMP before using Paint to export it out as a GIF to get weird dithering effects. When you rotate it back you get some lovely interference speckles.

(, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 23:41, archived)
# True story
I have seen MANY younglings come through here saying the exact same thing and they turn out to be world famous.
(, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 23:40, archived)
# I'm not a youngling, alas...
..and it's true, I can't draw for toffee. www.b3tards.com/u/8b5b151f962a8656e5fe/wellthisdidntwork.jpg (linked for 374kness) looks ok until you find out it's meant to be Katie Melua.
(, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 23:43, archived)
# to me you are
at least b3tan wise. and that picture is chuffing great!!!!
(, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 23:51, archived)
# looks damn all like her
it'd be better if i didn't tell people who it was meant to be... :)
(, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 23:53, archived)