Blimey I remember looking at Jim'll Paint It about 2 years ago and his paint skills sucked (as do mine - coupled with the limitations of MS Paint). Now he seems pretty damn good. His 'Tragic Roundabout' is beautiful. I never really thought that you could get good at art by .. well doing art. Nice one Jim.

That's the nature of practice and constantly attempting, regardless of the outcome. It should be a lesson in getting good at any activity.

And already being a professional graphic designer/artist before you start.

It works better in its natural habitat, on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/JimllPaintIt

You get more of the audience-participatory sense of fun.

That Putin poster is awesome.

Cute. But don't we all pretty much have friends with the same deal - suggest something interesting, they'll paint it? Because that's how artists work anyway.

He might want to rethink the branding there...

I don't think so, he seemed to hit right about the time Operation Yewtree began, it's almost entirely a British sense of humour that he's drawing to, and the majority of people I know, despite the atrocities of what Savile did, seem to find it hilarious that everybody knew he was a blatant pedophile, but nobody did a thing.

> the majority of people I know [..] seem to find it hilarious that everybody knew he was a blatant pedophile

I'm not sure hilarious is the correct emotional response here.

By excluding the last part, after the comma (but nobody did a thing), it's out of context. The red-tape and bureaucracy and cowardliness and bumbling of the BBC is what we find funny, it's pretty standard for the organisation as a whole. There's definitely no excusing the actions of those who failed to act, and that's definitely unfunny.

Why? Looks like he's doing fine as-is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%27ll_Fix_It http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yewtree

Yes, I understand the association. Again: why? It seems he's doing fine as-is. I don't see what harm it does him.