<story><title>Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists</title><url>https://krita.org/en/item/krita-4-0-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattigames</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s exactly as saying that someone made a full c++ program using nothing but notepad and therefore it&amp;#x27;s impressive. All I see its someone that made their lives  more difficult by purpose.</text></item><item><author>JoeDaDude</author><text>I like good tools as much as anybody, but I am always impressed with what a little talent and practice can do with existing tools.  This story was in the news lately, about a woman that uses nothing but MS Paint:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mymodernmet.com&amp;#x2F;grandma-ms-paint-art&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mymodernmet.com&amp;#x2F;grandma-ms-paint-art&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>headsoup</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m very much an amateur but Krita is a great piece of software for me and does everything I need so far, for free.  Much easier to use than GIMP, seems quite comparable to Photoshop and the development is going strong.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also neat that they now include by default a lot of the deevad brushes as it&amp;#x27;s a broad selection.  Keep up the good work Krita team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steamer25</author><text>I remember some documentary with Jack White talking about how he tries to make music composition more difficult on purpose. I had a very similar reaction to yours--the example they played under his voice over wasn&amp;#x27;t very impressive to me and I&amp;#x27;m not much of a Jack White fan to begin with.&lt;p&gt;Now that I&amp;#x27;m writing this, I suppose one useful concept is that of constraints promoting creativity by forcing you to come at the blank canvas from a different mindset than you&amp;#x27;re used to.&lt;p&gt;I suppose there are some times to struggle and grow but other times, like a competitive swimmer shedding his &amp;#x27;drags&amp;#x27;, to engage our full unhindered capacity free of such artificial handicaps.&lt;p&gt;Another musical example for me is the band Amaranthe. They usually make extensive use of modern production techniques but their talent is also very evident when they&amp;#x27;re unplugged:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;embed&amp;#x2F;J4Jhpx2Qmz4?start=61&amp;amp;end=290&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;embed&amp;#x2F;J4Jhpx2Qmz4?start=61&amp;amp;end=290&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Music video for the same song:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;D8lV1To-_fU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;D8lV1To-_fU&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists</title><url>https://krita.org/en/item/krita-4-0-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattigames</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s exactly as saying that someone made a full c++ program using nothing but notepad and therefore it&amp;#x27;s impressive. All I see its someone that made their lives  more difficult by purpose.</text></item><item><author>JoeDaDude</author><text>I like good tools as much as anybody, but I am always impressed with what a little talent and practice can do with existing tools.  This story was in the news lately, about a woman that uses nothing but MS Paint:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mymodernmet.com&amp;#x2F;grandma-ms-paint-art&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mymodernmet.com&amp;#x2F;grandma-ms-paint-art&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>headsoup</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m very much an amateur but Krita is a great piece of software for me and does everything I need so far, for free.  Much easier to use than GIMP, seems quite comparable to Photoshop and the development is going strong.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also neat that they now include by default a lot of the deevad brushes as it&amp;#x27;s a broad selection.  Keep up the good work Krita team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xyzodiac</author><text>Really not the same thing. You could produce the same C++ program in Notepad that you could in any other editor or IDE. Here the artist is working with restricted tools in a way that the restriction becomes part of the work itself</text></comment>