Sketchpad
Sketchpad by Michael Deal uses the canvas element and a lot of JavaScript to create an impressive painting application.
Sketchpad’s drawing tools allow for the usual brush, pencil, fill and text items but it also provides tools for spirographs, unusual shapes and stamps. Applying a pattern to these items is simple, meaning it’s easy to create something artistic even if you’re not particularly artistic yourself.
Not sure if this picture is pretty, or a mess... you decide!
The links along the top right offer more options to improve your image, and once you are happy with your image, you can save it out as a PNG. Give it a try!
Comments
Andi Smith
If you create anything impressive, why not add it to the Flickr group?
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sketchpad/
Posted on February 12, 2010
Semio
WOUAAAAA !! AMAZIIIIINNG 8|
Posted on February 12, 2010
Chuck
Truly impressive. Hello web three O!
Posted on February 12, 2010
Levi Aho
Nice, works in Firefox 3.0.6 no problem. Quite impressive.
Posted on February 25, 2010
Carlos Bacco
It seems OK in Opera 10
Posted on March 1, 2010
Theo
My God, that is awsome. Bye Flash, it wasn’t nice knowing you.
Posted on March 13, 2010
jon-e
Brilliant work.
Posted on March 27, 2010
zhurino2
叹为观止！
Posted on April 2, 2010
asasawa
叹为观止！ < YES YOU ARE RIGHT!
Posted on April 3, 2010
Abadidea
Broken on iPad– any attempt to draw results in dragging the screen around instead. The harmony drawing demo works, so there is probably a way to fix this?
Posted on April 25, 2010
Sammi
Wow, nice. Safari 4 on Mac 10.6.
Posted on April 29, 2010
Pave
Nice work, works in Konqueror 4.3.2
Posted on May 3, 2010
ravorona
Mlay le aza a
Posted on May 4, 2010
57Goldtop
Doesn’t work on the iPad.
Posted on May 5, 2010
Fabio
No less then AWESOME
Posted on May 23, 2010
joenes
That had to take some time! very well done.
it definitly shows what is already possible, i’m really curious what the future holds with time website’s change into full rich applications..
and not becouse it is effective but just becouse it is possible.
anyway awsome!
Posted on June 25, 2010
John Doe
Sketchpad also works on Opera
Posted on November 12, 2010
Faizan
nice,
it seems an end to silverlight ???
Posted on November 12, 2010
Bob Stringer
Tried on the iPhone. And it is unusable.
Sort it out, what a load of rubbish.
Very disappointing.
Posted on November 12, 2010
max
nice. thanks man.
Posted on November 28, 2010
fox
Very nice,
It would be great if there would be some kind of tutorials around or even a IDE like Flash Builder/Catalyst so that more people could create such kind of apps rather than only a very few.
That would make the web much more enjoyable
Posted on March 22, 2011
Matt Austin
Amazing, but nothing’s happening when I click on the floppy/save icon in FF 3.6.17
Posted on June 23, 2011
Toney Montag
What a thought provoking update, how can I make is so that I get an alert email every time you write a new update?
Posted on August 26, 2011
arina
awesome i can believe it .how is it possible !!!
Posted on October 16, 2011
martijn
very impressive. Wondering what can be done for iPad/iOs where the tough is used to scroll the page. Disable it?
Posted on December 15, 2011
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