This is an automatic post.
By this time I should be in Georgia working to take apart some equipment. As I didn’t expect to have a computer in Georgia I decided to make Pre-posts. This is the first of seven. Each post will contain a MSPaint masterpiece that will fulfill a request made last Wednesday by mikedidonato.com readers.
notes by the artist:
This particular image was quite simple to complete. I happen to be a huge fan of MSPaint Giraffes. And the sydney opera house has some simple geometry that’s easy to copy. I actually didn’t want the Sydney Opera house to be a dominant image in the Bitmap. I wanted the main focus to be the conflict between man and beast. For this reason, I tried to draw the viewer upwards in the MSPainting towards the action of the helicopters.
The helicopter in the giraffe’s mouth took some time. The rotors on the other two helicopters gave me a rare opportunity to use the skew feature of MSPaint.
This is an automatic post. I am probably currently at work, reading this post or the news, or maybe, just maybe, doing some work. I like the giraffe stomping on the opera house. Itjust adds that little bit of flair that the picture was needing. Excellent.
i like the wisps of smoke, they add a sense of realism rarely found in pictures of giant giraffes attacking the sydney opera house.
Breathtaking, you really should enter the turner prize (a reward were crap entries win) that is not to say that the MS Paint is not good. Did the giraffe eat lots of GM food to grow that large?
That is one angry looking giraffe, though I’m sure I would be angry with the helicopters too. In the many pre-post-half-modern depictions of the classic “Giraffe Attacking” genre, rarely has one capture the intensity of emotion found in the raging giant giraffe, with so few pixels, as this masterpiece.
Wow ben. you really hit it on the money. It’s all about the emotion.