Powerdraw: 500 hours of someone's lifePaint. The sheer straightforward simplicity of its name belies the incredible power of that program sitting in the Accessories bit of your Start menu (Microsoft Windows users only). You know, the one almost like Photoshop, but cheaper. The one part of Windows that never crashes. There's the Poorhouse thinking it was only useful for erm...."basic diagrams" such as a picture of a circle, an artist's impression of a square or an extremely bad version of your signature done in the style of a 1980s-computery spray can.

But no, the wonderful illustration accompanying this article was reputedly, believe it or not, done in Paint by the artist known as Diamonster. A tiny amount of creative accounting occurred via the use of a Photoshop blur effect at the end, but otherwise apparently it was pieced together pixel-by-pixel in MS Paint. To be fair it did take over five hundred hours. Time well spent. You can see a couple of the interim steps here and here.

Second prize can go to William from West Virginia - does this remind anyone of a Morph-related TV programme? - for his Ultimate MS Paint proudly done without even the use of the copy, resize or text tool.