[GUIDE] MS Paint Like A Pro!

Tally · **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:13 pm

Tally's Microsoft Paint Guide

Introduction
In this guide I will be showing you the techniques I use when drawing in MS Paint. You will need to practice in order to acheave good results, you will also need patience. To begin a drawing, you must first decide what you're going to draw, wether it's a picture you like, or something you want to create. In this case I'm going to draw Leonadis, from "300" because that movie rocks!

Step 1-Basic Sketch

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In this step you should choose a light color, I prefer light grey. Begin by sketching a simple shape (should look kind of like a Scrible). This is just to give an idea of the position and layout of you drawing, these lines will later be erased.

Step 2-Final Out-Line

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Select the black color at this point. In this step go over your previous guidelines, and add some detail. This should be you final tamplete befove coloring, so try to make it look as good as possible.

Step 3-Removing The First Guide-lines.

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This a fairly quick step. All you need to do is erase the first guidelines. To do this, select the eraser tool. On the color toolbar right click white, and left click the color you used for your first guideline. Press Ctrl + on your Num Pad to make the Eraser bigger. Now erase your guidlines by using the eraser, BUT be careful don't erase by using the left mouse button, insted use the right button, this will erase the grey and leave the black lines.

Shading Styles

Before we move on to the final Step, here are the to main ways of shading in MS Paint. They each have a different effect, which one you use is up to you.

Clean & Neat

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Rough & Ruggued

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Step 4-Shading

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This is your final step, and usually the most challenging, so you have to take your time on it. Once you've chosen your shading technique, you can begin. Start with the drak, and work your way to the light. My drawing turned out ok, but it was pretty small, so I didn't have to many pixels to work with.

The End

Hope you like this tutorial, and I hope you use it

. Comments and questions are welcomed. Also if there is anything I missed, or if there is anything you want me to add feel free to post it.

Ps. I hope this is on the right board :p.

Sigh · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:49 pm

Is that drawing of Sparta really by you? It's an awesome drawing on MS Paint..

Tally · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:51 pm

Yup, all done by me, and thank you, I'm glad you like it

Mods? Is this Guide good enough for a Sticky?

ceneret0023 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:05 pm

this is a great guide alas things such as drawing ultimately come down to natural talent. It's very tough to actually "teach" somebody how to draw

but still great guide and hopefully somebody will be able to use it

@ your sticky comment i can tell you right now that it's not. Very few graphics guides are good enough for a sticky, and very few guides in general are good enough for a sticky.

Tally · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:54 pm

Yeah, I know what you mean, I was just trying to help people use Paint, as for the talent part, they have to workfor that.

Yeah the sticky was a long shot

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Andromeda · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:40 pm

You're ridiculous, I'd never have the patience for this.

ceneret0023 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:31 pm

Tally69 wrote:

Yeah, I know what you mean, I was just trying to help people use Paint, as for the talent part, they have to workfor that.

Yeah the sticky was a long shot

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lol either way it's still a really great guide

i wasn't trying to sound like a total cake... just pointing out the facts :yup:

Tally · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:45 pm

lol, no worries

and thank you.

Jane · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:12 am

Wow, that's awesome. *___*

I'll never look at MS Paint like I did before now.

Rena · **Posted:** Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:09 am

Wow, I used to think that Paint was an amateur programme, but now I think otherwise.
You are awesome! Thank you so much ;D

Hannah_Wentz · **Posted:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:30 pm

This is AMZAZING! You are phenomenal at drawing! Whenever I try to draw something it ends up looking at something that you'd find stuck to the bottom of your shoe (random comparison I know xP). Do you have a stylus? Because my only excuse is that I have a laptop mouse. Hehe.

Tally · **Posted:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:38 pm

Hannah_Wentz wrote:

This is AMZAZING! You are phenomenal at drawing! Whenever I try to draw something it ends up looking at something that you'd find stuck to the bottom of your shoe (random comparison I know xP). Do you have a stylus? Because my only excuse is that I have a laptop mouse. Hehe.

lol, thank you. I use a mouse, but it took me a while to get use to it, so don't get discouraged.

Hannah_Wentz · **Posted:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:41 pm

Haha I kniw I'm terrible at art xD I mean I can't even do decent art for a pet app lol. And that's really impressive that you did it with a mouse!

Charzz · **Posted:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:04 pm

Thats awesome *_*
But its like 80% talent, 20% instruction

Still cool though.

donjuantriumphs · **Posted:** Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:50 am

Nice guide, I can't draw my way out of a wet paper bag, I usually have to do it pixel-by-pixel in photoshop and whatnot, which takes a million years to do. Good guide though! I will definitely use this.

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