MS Paint Art & Satire
Musik Pictures i DrawnI began drawing in Microsoft Paint in 2014 as a means of satire and light-hearted but meta humour. Originally manifesting as the Facebook page Musik Pictures i Drawn to a dedicated community of Industrial and electronic music fans. The page ran under anonymity and a persona of an innocent fictional artist with grammar and spelling as bad as the drawing ability.
As my first experience of running a social media page, I learnt numerous important things such as: marketing, analytics, posting schedules, call to actions, and creating content which lead to more click-throughs and interactions. The art now also exists as an Instagram profile: Pictures i Drawn |
ShowcaseA showcase of various MS Paint based work from Musik Pictures i Drawn.
The humour I felt really came from the contrasts of serious culture references, and the ability to often provide insightful critique through the medium of the most overlooked digital art tool. Despite being a project of passion, I began to take a more business-minded approach and networked with other artists to grow the page and share my work with a larger audience. |
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Featured Commission: Guild eSports
I was lucky enough to work with Guild eSports to create a promotional series of drawings for a social media engagement event on Twitter. Guild eSports is a company co-owned by English footballer, David Beckham and with over 118,000 Twitter followers.
The commission required a snowman to be drawn, over a series of 9 separate images to be posted each day, gradually wearing more branded merch for promotion at Christmas time. Unused was the 9th image of a melted snowman in the sun, destined for if post engagement was not high enough. |
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CommissionsEventually enough people started to like my drawings and persona enough to pay me real life money for artwork.
This is a collection of commissioned work which exists as things such as: Album covers, event posters and flyers, digital media such as backgrounds and banners. It was highly rewarding to see my work valued and to create a zeitgeist. Seeing my work published, printed, and shared by other artists and musicians was significant for me. From continuing this work over years, maintaining consistent output, style and audience engagement, it led to strong and dedicated fans for me which later enjoyed discovering who I was and my other design work. |
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Pictures i DrawnSince the slowing pace of Musik Pictures i Drawn, I had still kept this art style and brand going through other social medias such as: other Facebook pages, Tumblr, Reddit and Twitch. Maintaining the brand of poor spelling and grammar alongside the art always seems to reinforce the purpose and humour of the work to avoid dismissal.
The work is currently revived in 2 forms:
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