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GIMP != PHOTOSHOP
People use it like that (including myself), but it is not specifically meant to be. Any more than MSPaint, PSP, or Opencanvas is meant to be a Photoshop replacement.
It's just another photo/pixel manipulation software.

Which program can you make the 'oil painting' brush strokes in is what I want to know because Gimp only has circular and diagonal-line brushes.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about, the L4D2 art has a really cool style to it where you can actually see the brush strokes as if it were painted with paint.
http://williamjudd.com/wp-content/uploa ... scout1.jpg

Try using the paintbrush tool with fade out on. I messed around with it and produced this, which I think is what you're looking for...
Brush dynamics will also help you out (especially if you have a pressure-sensitive tablet).
Opencanvas is more of what you're looking for if you want a program that's made for it.

Boohoo, shed some tears

The strokes you have aren't really crisp like what I'm talking about, they are blurry with soft edges and the brush is circular while the strokes in the l4d2 art seem to be square. It is a mystery.

Different Brushes, but you are still going to want a tablet with pressure sensitivity, otherwise you, sir, are ♥♥♥♥

Grab a square brush then, and don't use the "circle fuzzy" brush like I used. Custom-made square brushes with fade and circle brushes (not fuzzy) demo'd: tinypic
Again though, you probably want OC, an environment specifically tailored to painting. And a tablet is a must if you want to do anything serious.

You can get all sorts of realistic media brushes for GIMP. Look on dA and various other sites in the resources section.

I suppose a tablet is probably what's behind the awesomeness...oh well.

WIP demented Batman

I'm not a fan of cell-shading but I needed to do this fast. :/

Your hands and muscle structure are weird, especially in his abs

His muscle structure and hands are weird because he's the gad damned Batman.


And I have to finish it by tomorrow.

Actually I will redo the abs.

Woo, I made an art! I don't normally do computer art, and this is the only thing I've done, in recent memory, besides sprites.
I might color it, but the paint bucket tool in Flash is counter-intuitive, and I don't have a tablet. And yeah, I used Flash.

Madmax, you have just captured the face of Batman when nobody's looking. XD

Uh... what?

Loving the batman