Windows Paint?

Yep.. thats where I do all my artwork.

Ah. I've used it, I'm using it at present, and personally, I'm not too impressed with it. Making good pictures isn't impossible, but it is harder than I'd like. Like for one thing, you can't shade anything. If you want the look of shading, you have to take your original color and darken it to make it look shadowy. I could go on, but you already know the rest, I'm sure.

Not true at all...

Go here to my art gallery and look at my works and how I've shaded them it'll give you some ideas -  Marc2006

That's very nice! I can do the same things, but I have to do it like how I said. But since you use Windows 7 Ultimate, your version of paint must be better than mine (I use Windows XP).

By the way, on your art account page, you have Vista listed as your operating system. Do you have more than one computer, or is that old information?

Very old information - matter of fact I use Windows XP... I used Windows 7 Ultimate for about a week and hated it.

Oh, then how do you shad something? Are you able to do it without having to customize the base color and paint over the previous (unshaded) work?

I'm asking because I'd like to be able to shade something I've already drawn. Like take a daytime scene and make it look like evening, or make a room with lights on look like they've been turned off. But if I try to do that, it would turn the whole picture to a solid color. Windows Paint (at least my version) won't let you "layer" colors (put one color over another without hiding what's beneath) like you can with Photoshop (which I've seen used in streams) or traditional media.

I just use different colors of 'paint' to make shaders... If I have a light peach color for a skin tone.. I will generally go for a darker color of peach for the shading over the skin tone.

Okay, then you do exactly what I do.

Pretty much... generally my most detailed artwork I do in MS Paint takes around 48 hours to draw and then another 5 hours to retouch up things I hate about the drawing... I'm generally a perfectionist...

I like my art to be perfect too, or very close. For me, drawing something with Paint usually takes days because I get tired of it after a few hours and go on to something else.

I SAW THIS LIVE!!

Looked awesome then, still looks awesome now!

Thanks, hun! *hugs*