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Reminds me of an article in the current People about the
"Etch-A-Sketch" girl named Jane Labowitch, amazing stuff.

https://people.com/etch-a-sketch-artist-sells-portraits-for-over-1k-and-been-noticed-by-stars-like-miles-teller-and-kelly-clarkson-exclusive-11772990


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On 2025-08-19 15:35:22 +0000, super70s said:

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/08/12/macpaint-art-from-the-mid-80s-still-looks-great-today-via-decryptions-blog-shared/

Reminds me of an article in the current People about the
"Etch-A-Sketch" girl named Jane Labowitch, amazing stuff.

https://people.com/etch-a-sketch-artist-sells-portraits-for-over-1k-and-been-noticed-by-stars-like-miles-teller-and-kelly-clarkson-exclusive-11772990

I'm a big sucker for 1bit black & white art as done on the Mac. Some of
the stuff is just plain beautiful. Has anyone been involved in creating
this stuff on actual compact Macs back in the 80's and could shed some
light on the actual process? What software would you use? Would you
"draft" stuff up on graph paper? Were Wacom tablets already a thing
back then?

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Sebastian wrote:

Has anyone been involved in creating
this stuff on actual compact Macs back in the 80's and could shed some
light on the actual process? What software would you use? Would you
"draft" stuff up on graph paper? Were Wacom tablets already a thing
back then?

Early Macworld magazines had a "Macworld Gallery" feature with MacPaint art. The artists usually described their techniques. All of the 1984 and 1985
issues have the Gallery.
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On 2025-10-07 13:45:20 +0000, D Finnigan said:

Sebastian wrote:

Has anyone been involved in creating
this stuff on actual compact Macs back in the 80's and could shed some
light on the actual process? What software would you use? Would you
"draft" stuff up on graph paper? Were Wacom tablets already a thing
back then?

Early Macworld magazines had a "Macworld Gallery" feature with MacPaint art. The artists usually described their techniques. All of the 1984 and 1985 issues have the Gallery.

Thank you D Finnigan! I was able to track down old Macworld issues
online and found the mentioned gallery. Very cool!

On a side-note: They were handing out neat prices for at the time, like
500$ for a winning image and 250$ for the 2nd and 3rd. That was a lot
of money back then!

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Sebastian wrote:

On 2025-10-07 13:45:20 +0000, D Finnigan said:

Sebastian wrote:

Has anyone been involved in creating
this stuff on actual compact Macs back in the 80's and could shed some
light on the actual process? What software would you use? Would you
"draft" stuff up on graph paper? Were Wacom tablets already a thing
back then?

Early Macworld magazines had a "Macworld Gallery" feature with MacPaint
art.
The artists usually described their techniques. All of the 1984 and 1985
issues have the Gallery.

Thank you D Finnigan! I was able to track down old Macworld issues
online and found the mentioned gallery. Very cool!

On a side-note: They were handing out neat prices for at the time, like
500$ for a winning image and 250$ for the 2nd and 3rd. That was a lot
of money back then!

Indeed! $500 was enough to buy yourself an external 400K drive. :-)

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On 2025-10-07 08:13:44 +0000, Sebastian said:

On 2025-08-19 15:35:22 +0000, super70s said:

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/08/12/macpaint-art-from-the-mid-80s-still-looks-great-today-via-decryptions-blog-shared/


Reminds me of an article in the current People about the
"Etch-A-Sketch" girl named Jane Labowitch, amazing stuff.

https://people.com/etch-a-sketch-artist-sells-portraits-for-over-1k-and-been-noticed-by-stars-like-miles-teller-and-kelly-clarkson-exclusive-11772990

I'm a big sucker for 1bit black & white art as done on the Mac. Some of
the stuff is just plain beautiful. Has anyone been involved in creating
this stuff on actual compact Macs back in the 80's and could shed some
light on the actual process? What software would you use? Would you
"draft" stuff up on graph paper? Were Wacom tablets already a thing
back then?

Years ago, I used to enlarge cartoon images on a photocopier, then
trace the outline onto graph paper, so I could plot the pixels onto the computer - a Commodore 64 using a joystick and then Amiga using a
mouse, and I think I did it a couple of times on the old Mac Plus and
Mac LC computers for work needs. After that the colouring in the areas
was easy. I used to call it "hand scanning". It worked really well,
albeit it a very slow method. I probably still have the Amiga-drawn
images on floppy disks, but no way to access them. :-)

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In article <mkk0doFe4g6U1@mid.individual.net>, Sebastian
<email@domain.com> wrote:

On 2025-08-19 15:35:22 +0000, super70s said:

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/08/12/macpaint-art-from-the-mid-80s-still-looks-great-today-via-decryptions-blog-shared/

Reminds me of an article in the current People about the
"Etch-A-Sketch" girl named Jane Labowitch, amazing stuff.

https://people.com/etch-a-sketch-artist-sells-portraits-for-over-1k-and-been-noticed-by-stars-like-miles-teller-and-kelly-clarkson-exclusive-11772990

I'm a big sucker for 1bit black & white art as done on the Mac. Some of
the stuff is just plain beautiful. Has anyone been involved in creating
this stuff on actual compact Macs back in the 80's and could shed some
light on the actual process? What software would you use? Would you
"draft" stuff up on graph paper? Were Wacom tablets already a thing
back then?

I've never made any 1-bit Mac art myself, but my mousemat has a print of
the Macintosh version of Hokusai's Great Wave that a very talented guy
made a few years ago - you can see the image on his site;
hypertalking.com. He didn't sell mousemats of it, I nabbed the picture and ordered a single mousemat from a web printer. He's got a bunch of other
1-bit art on there, too! I can't remember his real name now, but we used
to chat on Twitter back in the day, before it went down the toilet.
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In article <mkpkk9Fcj95U1@mid.individual.net>, Sebastian
<email@domain.com> wrote:

On a side-note: They were handing out neat prices for at the time, like
500$ for a winning image and 250$ for the 2nd and 3rd. That was a lot
of money back then!

Back in the old days, when magazines (and printed media in general) was a
very profitable business. I've no idea what MacWorld's circulation was
then, but $500 for a prize would not have been more than a very, very
small fraction of the profit they made each issue.
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