Unbelievably Realistic Microsoft Paint Art : Santa Claus Speed Painting Time Lapse

Time lapse speed painting of Santa Claus using Microsoft Paint. Nearly 50 hours of drawing compressed into a couple of minutes.

Merry Christmas.

This is the sequel to the early viral video: How to draw the Mona Lisa with MS Paint.

The black and white portion of the video was made with old school paint tools.

Made with a Windows 7 laptop, Wacom Intuous Tablet, HD Television, and VLC media player. Total time: 48 hour of screen capture and bunch of hours wondering how to do this while staring.

[entropy]

I love how the art file is saved as 'Ugh crash', then 'Boring time to color', then 'Ugh so tedious', then 'Hair is intimidating', after that 'Oh no it's Christmas eve', and at last 'Better late than never' :) I can see how the artist went through different stages when they were making this.

[edorasmarauder]

He actually did it. He figured out how to use Paint like a professional.

[racapinang]

Years ago when I was a kid, I thought this was fake, because it's impossible to draw anything in ms paint (oh, naive me).
Now, I'm a ms paint user myself, and I cannot express how great skills this is.

[LeafyJolt]

This masterpiece turns 10 years old today, it still lives on! Merry Christmas!

[crystalbuck]

I’ll never take “this looks like it was drawn in Microsoft paint” as an insult ever again.

[jinkstacks]

This guy actually took the “ok, now do it in ms paint” comments seriously.

[no_]

Just when I think it can't be more realistic, he adds something more.

[funkisimp]

Even when AI is replacing artists.. Those machines will never replicate the skill and detail put into Microsoft santa.

[emerald]

It's not Christmas if this doesn't reach everyone's reccomended each year.

[MadMovieMakers]

All I want for Christmas is these mad skills

[zooman]

My art when I'm at home: literal stick figures

My art when I'm in a boring class on a random piece of notebook paper

[blackberry]

You know it's that time of the year when this pops up on your FYP.

[kadugbuss]

I love how the end result is so realistic it looks like a stock photo no one would care if they didn't know it was drawn in paint.

[hobovan.]

You should create stock photos that are hard to shoot IRL. Dude, you could literally draw something more realistic than a photograph.

[makokitsune]

This video is 9 years old and it still pops up on the main page. And it's simply astonishing.

[yaddakinglet]

What I find mad about this is you can literally stop the video at any time AND THE DRAWING WILL LOOK AMAIZING.

[satancraig]

Someone: How many layers did you use?
Him: Layers?

[dakotaa.]

The surprising thing is, THIS IS ACTUALLY NOT CLICKBAIT

[IcedVen]

every year without fail this video shows up in my recommendations and every year without fail i watch it

[adiyn_]

this is why ai will never replace artists