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Frabato

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drawing program for a six year old

Hi All,

My son will be six years old next week and he has been playing with tuxpaint for the last year or so and he's pretty much mastered all of the functions in that program. Can anyone suggest a good step up, he is interested in animation also, but the programs that I've seen look pretty complex. Anyway, I'm a bit old to have a six year old and I'm just not hip to what the young people today are using for this kind of stuff. In fact, I'm so old that I use the word hip, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Montague

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Re: drawing program for a six year old

 

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Frabato

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Re: drawing program for a six year old

Hi and thanks very much for the reply. Yes, gcompis is something we've had for a long time, it's a nice program. What I'm looking for is a program like the gimp but a bit easier to learn.

Thanks

lagagnon

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Re: drawing program for a six year old

kolourpaint might be what you want, but requires some KDE libs as dependancies.

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xcausex

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Re: drawing program for a six year old

Have you tried TuxPaint? It is available in the community repo. My niece has been really enjoying it and she is about 5 now.

http://tuxpaint.org/

It's a pretty simple paint program,  nice big buttons with text and pictures on them, comes with all of your basic drawing tools and most of the tools make amusing sounds while you use them. It also comes with a wide variety of stamps you can use to create composite images with including some that are a bit dynamic; they change depending on the direction your mouse is moving when you click the mouse to stamp the shape.

Another thing to consider looking into is the Sugar desktop environment that is included with the One Laptop per Child units. It is geared towards elementary age children and has a wide variety of entertaining educational software including stuff for drawing, animation, music creation, and even simple programming.

http://www.sugarlabs.org/

I've never used it on an Arch set up though, you may have to look around a bit to figure out what to do, though the flash drives offered from their website would probably be a worthwhile investment. I recall Sugar being a bit tempermental when used on top of a pre-existing system, it would probably be nice to have it on a a flash stick you can boot into.

Last edited by xcausex (2011-11-22 06:07:25)

keenerd

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Re: drawing program for a six year old

How about MyPaint, in the Community repo?  Possibles in the AUR include gpaint, whyteboard, and pinta.

Frabato

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Re: drawing program for a six year old

Thanks to everyone for the replies. This gives me quite a bit to look at, I'll check them out this evening.

Thanks again!

bangkok_manouel

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Re: drawing program for a six year old

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/edit: this has nothing to do with your request but it's awesome anyway

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