I’ve had a few requests from YouTube viewers, asking if I could do a ‘How-To’ video, on how I do the Bob Ross style in GIMP.
What I did this time was to focus on where the pointer is, and what I’m doing. I had to speed up the video (again) due to the 10 minute [...]

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Ronnie on October 30th, 2008

The video of it’s creation can be seen on YouTube:

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Ronnie on October 21st, 2008

Another GIMP painting:

… and another YouTube time-lapse video:

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Ronnie on October 18th, 2008

The original image:
Again, the video of it being created is on YouTube:

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Ronnie on October 13th, 2008

My third GIMP painting:
Video of it being created is up on YouTube:

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Ronnie on October 11th, 2008

I installed the snazzy new 2.6 version of GIMP on my TabletPC and gave it a spin by doing another painting. I’m getting to actually prefer GIMP over PainterX. PainterX is incredibly powerful but it has too many options, mediums, brushes etc. GIMP is just nice and simple. Hopefully the KDE4 Krita will bring a [...]

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Ronnie on October 6th, 2008

I thought, for a change, I’d play around on the tablet PC and try and do some Bob Ross (aka: Joy of Painting) style art in GIMP, rather than the more complex Painter X. And, since I was in (yuck!) Windows, I used Camtasia to record the video, and have put it up on YouTube [...]

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Ronnie on March 30th, 2008

Initially I was going to do a watercolour or acrylic painting (or a series of paintings) showing some characters from the good old 8-bit and 16-bit era. You know: stuff like Mario (SNES), Sonic (Megadrive) etc etc, but then I thought: why bother sitting painting squares when I could just do them in squares… mosaic [...]

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