The first oneis indeed done on
MSPaint! Which is mental. I'm designing a cover for the Audiovisual Manual and was googling Kandinski images, and that came up. The thumbnail looked like the original, I clicked to enlarge it and realised it was a 'fake'; instructions on the qwebsite it's from read thus;
The Instructions:
Any masterpiece -- it's your choice. Pick one of your all-time favorites to copy, or find an obscure artist and "discover" him/her. That's a lot of territory! Even abstract expressionism can work! ; )
Begin with a blank canvas. Create the image from an art book or other reproduction. If you prefer working a realistic scene, I recommend the traditional: still life, portrait, figure study, or landscape.
Use the art tools: paint brush, pencil, air brush, fill bucket, eraser, etc, and use as many of them as you can in this creation. Try to use them all!
You are not allowed, however, to scan anything for inclusion, and try to avoid filters and selections for now, even if you know how to use them. (Oh, maybe just a little, if you insist!) But try to be purist here!
Tablets are allowed. (Hey, how about an assignment where you have to draw with a trackball! lol!)
The goal here is not to try to out-do Painter, a great art-tool emulation package, but instead to attempt to see how far you can take this metaphor in Photoshop. Are digital art tool emulations ready to replace analog yet?
Plus, it's a great way to get to know the capabilities/limitations of the package, and lets me see your level of skill in the traditional arts of drawing, painting and design and color, and how they translate to a digital medium.
Bonkers, eh?
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)