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#macpaint

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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

Ok, guys...

I'm not sure I can quite express how bizarrely freeing and enjoyable this incredibly derpy little exercise was.

I'm definitely going to make a habit of drawing more, even though I really don't know how!

Because NoneHitWonder was right! The schlockiest napkin scrawl is better than the most sublime AI slop!

I was thinking about buying a used #Wacom tablet to draw on, because it would be fun to create #monochrome art in #G/IMP (or heck, even #MacPaint via emulation!!), but I think I'll just continue using my fountain pens, and add doodles to my dot-lined paper notebook.

Thanks to the following amazing people for inspiring me:

@nonehitwonder @krishnadraws

polymaths.socialPost by R.L. Dane 🍵, @rl_dane@polymaths.social@nonehitwonder@tenforward.social P.S., You know, I think I'll make a point of posting random #doodles from now on!
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paulrickards

EDIT: Found, see reply!

Anyone know the origin/artist of this Ukiyo-e inspired Mac artwork? I found it in MacWorld Sept 1990 pg 330 in an article about Canvas 2.1.

Reverse image search just shows lots of Tumblr sites, but did give a somewhat pixel art version of it.

I cleaned up the image to try to make it 1:1 (there were duplicate rows/cols).

archive.org/details/MacWorld_9

Monochrome pixel artwork of three people using a Macintosh and ImageWriter in a Ukiyo-e style.
#RetroComputing#VintageMac#VintageApple
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Operating Superstars intro — Phantom Piltdown

Phantom is the ghost of Macintosh System 5, the Classic Mac OS version that got skipped. She’s a silly prankster and never had a public debut but she was happy to help her teammates behind the scenes. She also pranked their rivals!

The bg has filters over it but the 1-bit black and white bg was made in #MacPaint

A portrait of Phantom. She is floating above the stage floor and has a mischievous expression. The background is a 1-bit black and white drawing with a night sky, a carnival in the distance on one side, and a castle on the other side. She has medium-length dark purple hair tied into a ponytail and wears a dress based off a 19th century circus performer outfit. Over her dress she wears a long black cape that is beige on the inside, and wears a platinum apple brooch with a bowtie in the rainbow Apple logo colors. Her dress has two layers; the top layer is white with trim in different colors, and the layer under it is light blue. They’re both about knee-length and she wears black tights with black boots. She also wears long black gloves and black mask-like glasses. Her right eye is purple and her left eye is light blue.
#MastoArt#CharacterDesign#Gijinka
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Character intro (Operating Superstars): Sumire represents Macintosh System 4 and takes cues from the Macintosh II and the SE. She is (one of) Misaki’s successors and her time in the limelight was ambitious.

She competed in home and education venues like Diana, Prima and Misaki did, but she also has advanced skills with animation, music and 3D modeling.

Her success helped pave the way for her later teammates to focus on multimedia skills. However her success came with some misfortune as more dangerous malware (i.e: Scores) would arise and cause havoc in The Orchard. She and her team adapted as combatants due to Diana’s several years of combat experience.

She is friendly and helpful but can be competitive and stubborn with a rebellious side; her stubbornness is a reference to how the Mac II had to begin in secret since Steve Jobs didn’t want an expandable color Mac, and development on it began only after Jobs was ousted from Apple.

Sumire’s style is very colorful, including all of the rainbow Apple logo colors since System 4 is the first Mac OS version to support color. Since System 4 can also run on compact Macs, she’s also skilled working with black and white.

The Mac II's expandable design was inspired by the Apple II so Diana is one of her inspirations, shown in the portrait.

The 3D background is inspired by the image that had Apple logos on a surface with glass balls reflecting them which was a demo to show the Mac II’s color capabilities.

These character drawings are made in Inkscape but I made the geometric background in Pattern Maker 2.0, a classic Mac app from 1987. I imported that background into Blender where I made the 3D renders, and I made the portrait of Sumire and Diana in #MacPaint!

A portrait of Sumire. She is standing against a background that has 1-bit black and white geometric patterns with 3D glass sphere and apple shapes that reflect the patterns and each other. The background has a light purple filter over it. Sumire is holding a VHS cassette in one hand as a reference to one of the Mac II’s early uses providing subtitles to TV shows. In front of her other hand is a holographic screen showing a colorful 3D-rendered landscape. Behind her is another holographic screen showing a 1-bit black and white portrait of her and Diana. Sumire has shoulder-length straight black hair, part of which is tied into two small twin tails on the top of her head and tied with white and black polka-dotted ribbons. She wears a purple minidress with a black and white polka-dotted belt, blue leggings, black and white hi-top sneakers and a light beige “platinum” beret. Over her dress she wears a platinum jacket with several blocks of color on it with blocks of white, green, yellow, orange and red. She has blue-gray eyes with purple highlights and wears glasses with purple frames. On her right arm she wears a gauntlet in the platinum Mac color and with lines on it inspired by the Snow White Design Language of the contemporary Macs.
#MastoArt#CharacterDesign#Gijinka
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Another character introduction for Operating Superstars! Misaki represents Macintosh System 3 and also takes some cues from the Macintosh Plus, which was released the same time.

She is an artist and continued the desktop publishing tradition Prima started for their original team but she is also an inventor. She is friendly, cheerful, has a talent for crafting various gadgets and is skilled at networking. Her psychic abilities are also a reference to AppleShare and she used them to handle various files.

The fan she carries with her is because is the Macintosh Plus was prone to overheating. She was a member of her original team for many years but is now a member of COSMOS.

This was mostly drawn in Inkscape with effects in Krita, but the 1-bit black and white background was made in #MacPaint!

A portrait of Misaki Ringomori from Operating Superstars. She is standing against a 1-bit black and white background of a moonlit beach that has pastel color filters over it. Misaki is levitating a stack of files in one hand and some documents beside her. In her other hand she is holding a fan. She has waist-length straight black hair with platinum blonde streaks, and wears a gray blouse with a shiny beige skirt over pink and black checkerboard leggings with white socks and black dress shoes. On her right hand she has a gauntlet based on the early Mac hardware and on her left hand she wears a white glove. She has a brooch with a beige bow on her blouse, and wears a pink and black beaded necklace. Her headband is white with black polka dots, and has a large bow with two rabbit ear-like ribbons coming from it.
#MastoArt#Gijinka#Gijinkas
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