IMO objects like this are more important than a colour of something. It does not matter much if girl is wearing green or red or blue bikini, but losing fish or birds has much bigger impact.

Maybe even that does not matter much that girl is wearing bikini. I think it is much harder to keep chain of same clothing or color of something compared to elements like birds or fish. And fish or bird dissapearing might be more meaningul than woman having skirt instead of bikini.

bikinis are important!

hmmm i was trying to signal to xander that this was a three-tier landscape with sky at the top, water in the middle, and beach at the bottom. Not sure why he flipped the beach with the water?? Anyway, Bitemefish flipped it back to beach at the bottom.

Depends on what the focal point is imo & the psychology of whatever went into the person focusing on what they seem to have focused on.

I thought the focal point was the people, & the rest was a typical beach scene, but yeah, no real right way to do it.

Awesome paint! Are the two guys ghosts though? No shadows

xander's perspective is perfect assuming the birds and fish that are further away are bigger.

Lahaina Noon

I'm sure that the next description will include "Hawaii"

It was more natural for me to paint it this way round I guess. I overlooked the ordering of things and was just trying to get all objects included and recognisable

I considered perspective for the beach which I was pretty pleased with, but didn't consider it for any objects. The fish are the exact same size as each other because I decided to draw one and then copy and paste it. The eyes and smiles are different though

I realized I'd sent it that way after. Drawing people with a mouse in Paint is annoying as hell, when I got them half decent I sent it before I could wreck them. Apparently I killed them.

ETA I hope I addressed the concerns of racism in my last paint submission lol.

Our next describer, True North, gives us this:

Beach sunset, two men approaching green-bikinied woman under umbrella

Perfectly accurate, and racially blind.

Carl_Spackler paints next:



We have a few additions here: towels, a bird, and the return of an old paint meme, the CRAB. I can't say these are too out of place, though. Once again the umbrella kind of resembles a giant pickaxe.

Interestingly, Carl read between the lines and knew one of the men was black in the previous picture. So bonus points for that.

killer_kill describes next:

Beach sunset; 2 towels men woman under umbrella crab bird

All the elements are included, though the sparsity of punctuation here could be a source of confusion.

SpankGangsta is our next artist:



We've lost one person, and the remaining two are of ambiguous gender. The sun appears to be inside the ocean now. I hope that doesn't make things too hot.

The crab is fun. It looks quite angry and dangerous. The bird also looks like it's flying in as tactical support. Solid job

insanity31 provides us this interpretation:

beach: two sunbathers under umbrella, CRAB, deformed big bird flying(?)

A solid, if indecisive, description.

rtspurs paints next:



Once again we go back to some racial diversity. The crab looks like it's almost crying, instead of angry. Also the water and sun have disappeared.

The big bird is awesome, and it looks like it's flying like superman. Well done!

xnbomb is the next describer:

biracial couple standing under yellow umbrella; beach; lobster; flying bigbird

The crab has become a lobster, but aside from that everything is pretty accurate.

Booker Wolfbox is our penultimate artist:



That is the blackest black guy I've ever seen. Also the couple are fully clothed now. Maybe it's just a cold day out. The woman doesn't look too happy, and also it kinda looks like she's got handcuffs on. This could be going somewhere dark.

The lobster looks pretty happy and the Big Bird is very well done. Nice work overall.

Charry wraps up the descriptions...

beach setting, interracial picnic/umbrella. crab. sunny. Big Bird flying

We go back to crab for the final painting. I'm not sure where "picnic" comes from, but at least it's a happier direction than it could've gone.

Late but ZMOG

Our final image comes thanks to eleanor60:



A very geometrical style, with heavy use of the shape and line tools. I think it's a pretty cool spin on things.

The crab is bigger than both of the people combined, though... that seems kind of scary. I really like this paint though.

So we went from our starting image:



to our final image:



gains:

- beach
- lots more water
- picnic
- crab
- big bird

losses:

- safety building
- man standing in water
- debris

retained:

- umbrella
- man and woman (though with altered race)


Overall, great work by everyone, and well done on the timeliness, as the whole thing took less than 2 weeks from start to finish. Thanks to all our painters and describers!

I have to admit I was a little disappointed this went straight to the beach so quickly, but that's mostly my fault for choosing a picture that was so simple. I had other pictures in mind, but with this being my first paint game I thought they might be too hard and random. I'll take that into account if I run another one of these sometime.

I completely lost the ability to draw free hand on Paint so channeled my inner Picasso (Three Magicians) aspect to go down the geometric shapes route

I figured a CRAB was to be assumed in any beach scene

Nice reveal DM, I think it turned out well. I enjoyed the appearance of Big Bird.

good job frands

thanks DM