"Speedpaint", mostly done in MyPaint, but finishing touches in GIMP 2.6 (yes, I'm behind on the times).

Measure once, cut twice. I think we've all had days like these.


Image is link to bigger version

Love it!
It's very good.

I have to ask. Is the goat reference to the "Goat Invasion" in Gimp-2.9?

That's excellent Merrak. The carpet texture is really good. Nothing wrong with 2.6 - I'm sticking to it for as long as possible.

Oops, perhaps the "rockiness" is not clear. I liked 2.7 except that it didn't work very well with my monitor array. I traced the problem to a bug with Compiz that I am hoping has been cleared in Ubuntu 12.04.



I'm not sure what the goat invasion is. The goat was drawn from a photo I took in a park in Spokane, WA.



The goat is actually a trash can. I think it was installed to cut down on littering in the park. If you hold a piece of paper or something small and light in its mouth, a little vacuum will suck it up into the trash (the vent hood behind the goat in the picture is part of the machinery).

I see what you were aiming at. Maybe some noisy stuff on the ground would stop it looking like a carpet. Having said that though, another look at the large version makes it clear what it's supposed to be.

I too like it merrak. Dad's partial to goats since his parents had a goat farm when he was growing up. He (more then once) told me how his goats saved a baby when mother's milk was not sufficient and the baby couldn't use cow's milk either.

Ahh you've not seen the new Gimp-2.9 splash screen then?

What's up with that goat?

Genetically Engineered Goat, Large aka GEGL is the GIMP's new image processing core that has all the buzzwords it can eat. It takes CIE LAB, puts some EXR on top, sprinkles it with 32bit float per channel precision, composites it all with nodes and gobbles down via mipmaps really fast.

The plan to finalize transition of GIMP to using GEGL for everything has been postponed for ages. Right after branching 2.7.5 the team created a branch called goat-invasion where they are making GIMP use GEGL, for real. According to the current plans, this branch will become v2.10.

What happens when the goat invades?

Well it invaded Gimp-2.8 actually and was almost entirely ported in a few weeks. It was started as just a quick test hack and well...it just worked and so in 3 weeks Gimp-2.8 was almost totally ported to the new core.
Gimp-2.9 has that 16, and 32 bit option so as they say the Goat invasion is on!
I have yet to find a tarball for 2.9 i can compile on Windows. But i know it's new splash is a herd of flying? goats.

That is the GOAT invasion.

Oh so that's what the goat is about. I've heard of GEGL off and on, and saw the goat pictures - just never put them together. Oh I could make a pretty nifty goat themed splash after all that.

"GEGL Goat" version of "Bad Planning"

lol

double lol

Slightly off topic, not that there really was one but i wish someone would make a series of youtube tuts on drawing with mypaint and or gimp. I like to watch Mark Crilley's which are really good, but he uses paper, markers, pencils, and watercolors. I would really be interested in a series utilizing software.

That would be great. Watching speed paints is neat, but I don't usually see any that go into any kind of explanation of what is going on.

I'd certainly make some, but I don't think I'm at the level yet where I could make a decent how-to. If you look at the two speed paints I did post carefully, you can see how many times I had to erase and start over.

On the other hand, if I did make some tutorial videos, perhaps people would find them less intimidating. Take your first steps into MyPaint with R. "One hand on ctrl-z" Watson.

Yes, that's just what I was talking about, from the basics up. I have a nice wacom but no ability to use it. I use it primarily for photo touchups. it would be nice to be able to even draw some basic cartoons.

The only thorough set of tutorials for Gimp / MyPaint I can think of are Griatch's, although as a self-teaching tool, they probably move too fast. I remember having a very hard time with the later tutorials. After completing the earliest ones, I still didn't have enough practice to really benefit from the later ones.