How I Paint Portraits in MS Paint

Watch a chill timelapse on how I explain my thought process of painting in MS Paint.

[AshAirheart]

Finally, an MS paint recommendation that isn't the Santa

[evanmak]

Here's to the people compaining that digital art isn't "real" art.
In ms paint, you just have colors, fixed brush sizes, and a blank canvas. No layers, no fancy blending, no filters, no unlimited undos. You even have to learn color theory to make a palette and make all the color combos work.
Kudos for mastering that severely limited but strangely close to reality program.

[DonVigaDeFierro]

My painting teacher used to say, if you're good you can make a masterpiece with the best material. If you're very good you can make a masterpiece with any material.

[sharaheartsixx]

Anyone who can paint as well as this in MsPaint sold their soul and I won't believe otherwise. This is absolutely incredible btw!

[cz]

Ultimate proof that its all about the skills and not about the tool!

[BellaAnderson-ooo]

Yay, MS Paint! I really liked that you fixed proportions along the way. You have such an amazing knowledge and application of colors, and it's really mesmerizing to watch your entire painting process unfold, and inspiring too. Thank you for sharing your painting with us! ❤

[_pie]

remember guys, if its an issue, it's an skill issue

[huzudesign]

This is incredible, I can't believe you did this on paint even though i watched the whole video just wow

[MisaPiza]

Thank you so much for the speedpaint and commentary, very informative!!

[Marcus_Berger]

OMG 1000% more worth than any AI art. This is real art. I hope in the future people still create painting like you and not get reliant on machines.

[classydays]

Dude, what? I'm my head, MS Paint was basically a toy and you pulled this off. The developers would shed a tear seeing your skills. Bravo!

[bruh-vkio]

my toxic trait is thinking i could do this easily

[cbee]

So glad you made that small adjustment to the mouth area. the tiniest change turned the portrait from angry to 'curious' which is the vibe I get from the original picture. amazing work!

[deathcold_longplaysua]

This image painting of yours proves that, it is not about cool software with tons of different plugins, but about the skill. And if you understand how to draw an image and make it look realistic, then you don't need any fancy software.

As for me, I used MS Paint back in Windows XP days and a bit in Windows 7 days. And since my painting skills is very far from yours, so far as distance from earth to mars, everything that I was painting looked cartoony. Or other words, I don't have understanding of how to paint someone's portrait. And then I don't have enough patience to learn and understand it, so I stuck to what works for me, and for now I'm a 2D spriter, who can also edit images, but who is also very lazy. But I also switched from classic MS Paint to PaintNET, with tons of plugins. And since I don't do anything crazy, PaintNET is more than enough for me. Like, it has many fancy tools that you can download for free, it has possibility to work with different layers and stuff like that. Other words, it's like classic MS Paint but better and has most of the tools that Photoshop and other software has, but they are simple to find and use inside the PaintNET itself. But I'm sure that you know this even without me telling you.

[jacenjustice]

I've never seen anything like this done in MS Paint. That was awesome!

[dcabral]

This is clear proof that it is not about the tool, it is about the skill and talent.

[TTArt]

Cool to see you do some portraits as well, enjoyable to watch and listen!

[iamthatakhil]

I still remember my first attempts at digital art in MS Paint back in 2005. I used my mouse and keyboard shortcuts to create some art which brought me into this insane world of possibilities. Even though I use Procreate and Fresco now, Paint still holds a great place in my mind. Wonderful job with this portrait!

[kotyara]

The comparison to traditional art is actually very useful. Thinking of it this way is helpful when working with limited software like MS Paint

[wizardcat]

Dude this is so cool to see someone else use MS paint. As someone who just started really using MS paint. I've played around with it a bit in the past, but I recently did two halfway decent pictures with it. And it's very much encouraged me to keep practicing my art. MS paint is a fun tool. It is simplistic and can be difficult using a mouse, but it takes time and practice like any craft. Something I do If I'm not real happy with, say, the black line of a jawline, I will go back in with white to shave the line down, making it look more like a jaw. If I'm a doing black and white portrait. It was excited when I realized for the first time I could do that.