#macpaint

I drew Ethel Cain in MacPaint released in 1984 with a mouse. Here is the full length video of me doing it. Prints also available.

Art from Shatter (1986-1987), "The First Computerized Comic"

Mac Paint 1984 ☀ Digital portraiture with early computer graphics ◆ Traditional gesture, revolutionary canvas

tried ot fucking draw fucking nico in probably close to 1984 in fucking macpaint 1984 cause ya and it fucking froze before i could fucking finish and i cant do anything cause im using emulator on internet archive im gonna kms

MacPaint ad, 1982

superior art program

After running out of issues of (formerly Kilobaud) Microcomputing on the Internet Archive, I did find a source for the last few of them, although the February 1984 cover was in black and white. As for this issue, the Macintosh was examined (if with non-finalized software) in some detail and with some interest, although there was the comment "This type of ease of use may create some resentment in the hacker in you—the machine consciously places distance between you and the operating system." One columnist wondered if "household robots" could replace "tinkering on microcomputers," but also noted they would be best as multiple devices tailored for specific uses and plugged in to keep their batteries charged in between those uses. Wayne Green's editorial enthused about the "Tandy 100," noted he'd replaced a "Sony Typecorder" with it, and predicted there might be five million "briefcase computers" sold in 1985. He would later start a magazine called "Pico" ("nano," apparently, called Mork and Mindy rather than the promised technology to mind at the time) striving to promote portable computers.