How DID you make this in Paint.NET? And in 45 minutes nonetheless
How experienced are you? :(
I'm actually not that great. I got the base technique down making another one (draw rectangles, in this case 70px thick, select around them with some padding for rotating to the angles to create anti-aliasing effects, and using a whole lot of alpha mask stuff for fixing up the overlap points - look in the plugins forum on the Paint.NET forums for the alpha mask plugin it's there somewhere)
It was probably actually more than 45 minutes, I was pretty sleep-deprived and my sense of time isn't the best. I should cut that out due to not being sure myself :U
I think I'll redo the background too - looking at it at native resolution, just some noise to prevent flat coloring (which can be weird for the human eye because flat colors like that don't occur in nature) doesn't look all that great. I could probably find something better for that.