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Epic MS Paint Landscape Took 4 Years to Create

by Matthew Zuras on January 20, 2010 at 08:30 AM

Before most of us learned to use Photoshop, we fooled around with MS Paint or similar primitive drawing programs. We moved on to bigger and snazzier ones because they could do more for us, and we were able to produce more "sophisticated" graphics. How could the paint bucket tool ever create a dynamic image? (Tell that to any number of classical artists who, like the over-hyped Leonardo Da Vinci, made genius work with only pencil and paper.) Well, an MS Paint master -- at this point known only by his YouTube handle Scorpiongold -- has created an epic drawing that spans nearly 7.5 by 8.2 feet that took four years to complete, and it is breathtaking.

The imagery is a fantastical, if not reminiscent of the drawings of a precocious schoolboy translated to a kind of early RPG landscape. (We mean that in a Henry-Darger-meets-Windows-95 sort of way.) Is there a narrative? The video moves a little too quickly for us to analyze, but we (and countless others) would love to see a full view. While it's been typical of contemporary male artists to create massive works that dwarf the audience, we have a sort of reversal here, with the restriction of perspective limited to the YouTube camera eye. If you're not into all that fancy talk, just check out another Scorpiongold video here, in which he draws a character in time-lapse. Fascinating. [From: Mashable]

Tags: art, drawing, ms paint, MsPaint, photoshop, scorpiongold, top, youtube

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