Create a Drawing Application
We’ve featured a bunch of different drawing applications on Canvas Demos ranging from the simple to the outstanding. If you’ve wondered how you can learn to create your own drawing application, then William Malone is the man to help you out.

It's a duck!
William’s tutorial takes you step by step through the development of a simple web drawing application combining the HTML5 canvas element and JavaScript. There are progress demos, screenshots, code samples and clear instructions to help you on your way.


Comments
Brad
Looks like a slice of watermelon to me.
Posted on July 27, 2010
Andi Smith
You say watermelon, I say duck.
To-mate-o, to-mar-toe…
Posted on July 27, 2010
anon
Awesome tutorial, simple and straightforward non-object oriented canvas introduction.
Posted on August 10, 2010
Phil
yh i see a slice of watermelon with legs and a duck head
Posted on September 26, 2010
david
Great tutorial , thanks for having kept simple but powerful. !
Posted on February 5, 2011
Aof
I’d like to know after we draw the object then can we save it into database (mysql,oracle)? Please advise.
Posted on March 30, 2011
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