My Paint is Fun

One of my brothers had been following project Sintel over at Blender.org, and he noticed that they were using some other software for some of the conceptual art for the project. One of the pieces of software that they were using, other than Gimp, was another open source software called My Paint.
Gimp in many ways is much like Adobe Photoshop, and like it, it is unable to simulate some of the effects that you get with real medium. (There are professional pieces of software that can simulate real artistic medium. Like Corel Painter). That is what My Paint is for.

I have just taken a few moments to play around with it, with my tablet, and have found that the watercolor tools are quite fun. You are able to manipulate the way the brush lays down the color and effect what is already on your canvas. Which, in turn, simulates some of the effects of real art medium. And there are still a ton of other options and little tweaks you can make that I do not understand yet.
I know that some professional digital artists do use programs like Corel Painter to produce some of their artwork, and I know that I will eventually have to dive into that kind of software to broaden my horizons. And it seems that My paint is a program that is very capable in doing that.

If you would like to grab your free copy of this piece of software go ahead and download it at http://mypaint.intilinux.com/ and give it a spin. Also it took a little while for me to get used to the interface. So here is the link for the producers run down of keyboard shortcuts and other things that would help when you start using My Paint.
Have fun!