Today there are various people who celebrate these early forms of digital illustration, such as artist Jim’ll Paint It. If the program was really developed to let people make beautiful “paintings”, surely this would be one of the first aspects that needed to go. You might also remember the program stored documents as bitmap files, giving your masterpiece an immediate and unforgiving gritty effect once you saved it. Where other, more professional, illustration programs quickly opted for pad-and-drawing tools, Paint never felt the need to change much. As a result, improving Paint was never really on the agenda of Microsoft’s developers. When the mouse then became standard, it was no longer necessary to put much focus on the program it was just something that belonged on your computer. The software was developed to show off the technical specs computers were capable of and how they worked best with the point-and-click capabilities of the mouse.
Paint was implemented to persuade people to buy a mouse.
Back in the day, when computers were just starting to become widely available, the input-device was still in an experimental phase. I see many of the submarines have more of a radial pattern which is another tutorial on NP but more manual work and less good result.The weirdest thing about Microsoft Paint is that it was never about painting. Nerdparadise has nice tutorials on that: Now that I check this page again, it actually has gradients, and it actually uses a different technique :) Too bad it only works in a single direction, though. Which is not to say that paint can't do cool stuff faster than just doing every pixel manually. I might even argue this is not "done with Paint" so much as "done by hand / by choosing each pixel manually" (because even with bucket fill, you still choose where the line of each shade of the gradient is, plus choosing the color) which is of course entirely independent of the tool - could be gimp, could be photoshop, could be mspaint.
I find gradients very hard myself: both hard to match when editing an existing photo and also hard to make look good when drawing something new, but (without knowing how) I would venture that one can save a ton of time by not doing this all manually as shown in that video. To save others a cookie wall / TL DW: it's a combination of flood/bucket-filling regions defined with pencil, and just manually doing pixel art with the pencil (in both cases you choose each individual color in the gradient manually of course).
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