Drawing+Tools



toc General Art Links =Animations=

=Collaborative Drawing Tools=

[|Art.com]
- Draw and paint. - see an instant replay of your masterpiece. - select a frame - hang in gallery - save and send - view other paintings

[|ArtPad]
Drawing and painting tool.



[|All My Magic Sketching Tool]
Create and send WizCards to friends or post them in your blog or any social network. - draw, paint, - upload images - use provided graphics - add music

[|ArtisanCam]
A wide variety of art and activities are available here including viryual sculpture, jewelry making, card design, ceramics, [|screen printing],

[|ArtRage]
With ArtRage you can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle sparkling glitter and much more. Stencils and rulers let you create precise shapes or smooth curves and straight lines freehand. Tracing and Reference images let you load photos to recreate as paintings either by eye or by letting ArtRage select colors for you as you paint. Virtual mediums Thick paint smears and blends, pencils and chalks smudge, and markers work just like they do in the real world. Many of the tools can be adjusted to give different effects. You can paint with thinned oils, use wet or dry markers, soften your pencil and control the hardness of the crayon, and much more.

[|BeFunky]
Create an instant drawing or painting from a digital photograph.

[|Bonomo]
Anyone can create a masterpiece with this tool: abstract, string art, fun shapes. In fact, Bonomo starts drawing without you!

[|The Broth]
fun with liveart, collaborate online

Benefits of being a registered user:

 * **Open your own room(s)** — Personalize it and allow public, friends or members!
 * **Take [[image:http://img.thebroth.com/snapshot_icon.gif]] snapshots** and place them in the public gallery!
 * **Load any snapshot from the gallery** into your room and continue with it!
 * **Chat!** [[image:http://img.thebroth.com/chatbubble.gif]] — Coordinate your efforts easily and make friends with the built-in chat.
 * **Rate items in the Gallery** — Rate any snapshot and submit comments!
 * **Your own profile and blog!** — Manage your avatar, stats and [[image:http://img.thebroth.com/heart.gif]] friends list. Earn awards!



[|BRUSHster]
- more than forty brushes and many customizable size, transparency, and stroke options. - rainbow palette, along with a toolbox of special effects that blur, ripple, smudge, blend, and fragment your designs - Create ABSTRACT art and exploring color, gesture, shape, or line

[|Bryce][[image:130105_medium.jpeg align="right" link="http://download.cnet.com/Bryce/3000-6677_4-10696716.html"]]
Create breathtaking realistic 3D landscapes and animations with DAZ 3D Bryce. The easy user interface simplifies the design process for a novice or the seasoned professional. Start out building or importing a landscape as impressive as the Grand Canyon. Populate it with buildings, people or any other object you create or from the extensive DAZ 3D library. The Light Lab provides you robust control over your sunsets, moonlight nights or high-noon ambiance. Tree Lab allows you to plant your landscape like the gardens of Versailles. You'll have to register your copy of Bryce on the publishers web-site to gain access to your free Bryce serial number.

large download!

[|Canvastic.net]
Online version of Canvastic's desktop software. Draw, paint and publish pages.

[|Comic Brush]
Create and s hare a comic using any combination of your own drawings, photos and ready-to-use artwork. Can't draw? Not a problem. Simply choose from our library of backgrounds, characters and speech balloons, add your own text or captions… and you're done! A comic in minutes! Mix stock artwork from our fun collection of comic backgrounds, characters and props with photos of your friends, neighborhood or college.You can add speech balloons, text, your own artwork and more, before publishing

Draw your own comics, animation delay, Embed them into any webpage

[|CoSketch][[image:cooltoolsforschools/cosketch.png width="147" height="33" align="right" link="http://cosketch.com/"]]
Collaborative drawing tool. Anything you paint will instantly show up for all other connected users. One click to save an image permanently (bb- and html-codes automaticly generated for simple posting on forums or on your blog).

[|CubeScape]
Virtual legos!

[|DabbleBoard][[image:cooltoolsforschools/Picture_132.png width="153" height="47" align="right" link="http://www.dabbleboard.com/main"]]
Virtual whiteboard that can be edited collaboratively in real time.

[|DigitalDrawn]
Design and send your own ecards. Clipart and photo uploads supported, too.

[|DrawHere]
Lets you draw on any webpage and other DrawHere users can see what you have drawn.

[|DrawGreetings]
Draw a picture, add some text, and print at [|Zazzle] or email your greeting card.

DrawIsland[[image:starSean.gif]]
tool for creating drawings and simple GIF animations.

Drips
- paint like Jackson Pollock - save it online - no registration necessary - paint with either your mouse or your webcam and computer microphone - you can use light and your voice to change the color. - After you save it, you’re given its url address. St

[|Favicon Icon Drawing Program]
Draw your own favicon for your URLs

[|FlashPaint]
an online art application with a place for the “painter” to write about his/her creation and then can save the painting and the writing to the gallery. You’re given a url for both that can be posted on an online journal or blog.

[|Floor Planner]
Create and share interactive floorplans, free for personal use

[|Google SketchUp]
3D drawing tools (downloadable software)

[|Graffiti Creator]
Funky fonts your students will love. Simply type in a word and hit Enter and out comes a designed font ready for you to convert into beautiful art. Use an array of various tools to enhance your logotype to make it really special and unique.

[|Imagination cubed]
Collaborative drawing board, text and stamps, replay. Invite and share by email. No embed code.

[|Imaginary] City
design your own city complete with roads, building signs and transport

[|Inkscape]
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

[|Kerpoof]
Draw, color and share from your browser. Ideas and lesson plans for teachers, too.

[|Mutapic][[image:mut.JPG width="749" height="484" link="http://www.mutapic.com/I"]]
To create new pictures use the //Generate// mode and to modify existing pictures use the //Mutation// mode.

[|MyDrawings]
Pick a spot and start drawing or add to the work others have started.

[|National Gallery of Art's Interactive Tools]
Create collages, paintings, a mobile, a still life and more.

 Draw or sketch, create graffiti, pixel art, ecard, handwritten message or note. Save the image and use anywhere your blog, journal, newsletter, message board, email, chat, gallery etc. A widget is also available for your website:

[|Pencil][[image:pencil-home.png width="250" height="212" align="right" link="http://www.pencil-animation.org/"]]
Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

[|Pixlr]
Free online image and drawing editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter

[|QlipBoard]
Draw or upload drawings and photos and then add narration and/or music

[|Queeky]
Draw, paint, share.

[|Scribblar]
A collaboartive whiteboard with audio and chat

 "A generative illustration toy"

[|Scriblink][[image:cooltoolsforschools/Picture_73.png width="156" height="39" align="right" link="http://scriblink.com/"]]
An online collaborative whiteboard (one of the top five)

[|Sketchcast]
Record a sketch with or without voice audio. Embed sketch player into any webpage or point people to your sketch channel

[|SketchPad]
Scribble. Doodle. Draw.



Slimber
Slimber.com is an online drawing application. It allows users to draw online, replay and save their drawings. Users can rate, comment and share drawings. The Most Rated drawings are rewarded by being featured on the home page. no registration.

http://www.drawastickman.com/

Stickman
are prompted to draw a stick figure, the figure they draw springs to life and is faced with several challenges, students must follow directions and draw several props for their stick figure to interact with. This is a mini interactive story that has students reading and following directions, solving mysteries, thinking creatively and solving problems. Students will love the hero of the story (the character they created) and the villain (a dragon).



[|Sumopaint]
Offers professional and easy to use tools for creating and editing images within a browser

[|Textorizer]
Make pictures from words. Select the image url from flickr and type in the key words. Change the settings to suit image size and strokes.

[|Thinkature][[image:cooltoolsforschools/thinkature.png width="148" height="37" align="right" link="http://thinkature.com/"]]
Collaborative whiteboard with chat

[|Tuxpaint]
Drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative

[|Twiddla][[image:cooltoolsforschools/Picture_59.png align="right" link="http://www.twiddla.com/"]]
Team whiteboarding and virtual meeting space.

[|Viscosity]
Lets you create and share your own works of art.

[|Voice drawing]
Voice drawing - use inbuilt mic to draw a picture, low volume will turn the line counter-clockwise, medium volume will draw a straight line, high volume will turn the line clockwise.

[|WebCanvas]
A blank page with lots of tools to draw or paint your image

[|Wordle]
Creates customized word cloud art from text you submit [|Tag Crowd] is similar...but different.