[fengwick3]

I wasn't raised in the states, so the first time I watched Bob Ross was when twitch hosted the marathon. The painting process felt so surreal - I was witnessing an act of creation, the birth of a painting from blank canvas, yet at the same time I was the painter, deconstructing the painting in to mechanical techniques. I guess there is something unique about Bob Ross.

On a side note, in some sense coding is like painting, other than the fact that mistakes in programs are certainly not happy.

[bane]

The craziest thing about his work is that it looks like nonsense for a few strokes and then suddenly pop it turns into a mountain or river or something.

My understanding is he was self taught, and his technique is mostly his, it's fantastic that he decided to teach it to anybody willing to tune in.

[jamespo]

The technique isn't mostly his, the article explains this

[angler]

I think I'm going to try to think of Bob Ross when I have a program error. "Well there's a happy little uncaught exception..."

[SmellyGeekBoy]

I think you might enjoy this! https://twitter.com/BobRossGameDev

[emkemp]

"There are no mistakes when coding, just happy little opportunities to learn and improve."