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GifCities is a GeoCities animated GIF search engine from the Internet Archive, originally released in 2016 for the archive's 20th anniversary. It draws on GIFs extracted from the Internet Archive's GeoCities Closing Crawl, and a 2025 update added improved search and the ability to make and send GifGrams. Results link back to the original GeoCities pages.
KRESKA.art is a free online drawing and painting app that runs in a browser with no installation. It offers a proprietary painting engine and a library of more than 180 handmade brushes in 12 categories. Features include a reference preview button with color picker, reference opacity slider, and auto-color tracing.
Krita is a free and open source painting program made by artists, licensed as GNU GPL. It provides multiple brush types and brush engines, layers, drawing assistants, stabilizers, vector and text tools, and 2D animation features through a customizable interface with dockers and dark and light themes.
Minimator is a minimalist graphical editor that runs in the browser and on the go. Drawings are made of lines on a grid-based canvas, and the lines are limited to vertical and horizontal lines and quarter circles.
Browser-based image editor with layers, drawing tools, filters, and basic photo editing features.
The National Portrait Gallery's online collection provides a searchable database of portraits from the 8th century to the present day. It covers a primary collection of more than 11,000 paintings, drawings, miniatures and sculptures, a photographs collection of over 250,000 items and a reference collection of over 70,000 portraits. Themed groups and a Schools hub with art and history resources are also listed.
Paint of Persia is a rotoscoping pixel-art tool for drawing on top of any window or wallpaper. It is made for pixel-art animation and sprites, with scale and transparency control and export of single frames or sprite sheets. It works with Windows 7+, and the macOS version is an alpha that may contain bugs.
Pencil2D is an open source animation tool for making 2D hand-drawn animations, with raster and vector workflows. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD. The software is free to use, including commercially.
Perspective Grid is a browser-based tool for drawing perspective grids. Users drag circles to adjust vanishing points, drag the grid to pan and scroll or pinch to zoom, and can hide the controls and capture a screenshot or generate a full resolution image.
Perspective Tools is a collection of interactive perspective grids intended as a guide for artistic or technical drawings. It offers 1-point, 3-point and 6-point curvilinear projections, with the page stating that more are coming soon. The tool was created by Ben Mansfield.
Pinta is a free, open-source program for drawing and image editing that combines an easy-to-use interface with tools such as a magic wand, clone and recolor. It offers real-time effects with live previews and unlimited undo, and is available on Linux, Mac, Windows and BSD.
PixiEditor is a free and open-source universal 2D graphics editor built around a Node Graph workflow. It combines pixel art tools, raster image editing, drawing, vector art and frame-by-frame animation in one desktop application that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and works offline.
Pixilart is a free online pixel drawing tool. The source states that the tool allows users to make pixel art, game sprites and animated GIFs online for free. It also provides a free mobile app for creating pixel art on the go.
PlantUML is an open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw UML diagrams. It supports diagram types including sequence, use case, class, object, activity, component, deployment, state and timing diagrams, plus non-UML diagrams. Images can be exported in PNG, LaTeX, EPS and SVG.
Posemaniacs is a royalty free pose reference site for artists, offering 3D figure references and muscle references. The site also hosts tutorials and courses on drawing, and states its mission is to create free learning material for people who want to be an artist.
QCAD is a professional 2D CAD system with a clean interface and technical drawing tools such as layers, blocks, dimensioning and precision tools. Its core is available under a permissive open source license, and editions include QCAD Community Edition, QCAD Professional and QCAD/CAM.
Quickposes is a gesture drawing tool and image library for art students, illustrators and anyone wanting to improve drawing skills. Users select pose types and a time limit, then draw the essence of the pose before the image changes. Challenges are always 20 images each session, and a Random gestures mode exists for non-time-limit practice.
SmoothDraw is a painting and free-hand drawing program for producing pictures, supporting brushes such as pen, pencil, dry media, airbrush, bristle brush and image hose, along with retouch tools and layers. Downloads are offered as SmoothDraw 4.1.4 Beta for Win 7 SP1 and Win 8/8.1/10 with .NET Framework 4.6, and SmoothDraw 4.0.5 for older Windows versions.
Designcenter Solid Edge Community Edition is free professional 3D CAD software intended for personal use by makers, CAD enthusiasts and design challenge competitors. It supports designing parts, assemblies and sheet metal, with automated drafting, exploded views, animation, rendering and simulation. Files cannot be opened in commercial versions and 2D drawings are watermarked.
Storyboarder is a free, open-source tool for visualizing a story as storyboards. It offers six simple drawing tools, adding boards with a click, and entering dialogue, action, timing and shot type. Boards can be edited in Photoshop and update automatically on save. It is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
TEv2 is described as the Tegaki E Reboot, labeled a technical alpha version. All entries and comments on the site are hand-drawn or written with a mouse or tablet. The page shows a dated feed of entries with comment counts and a login or registration area.
Tilda Vector is a free online vector graphic editor for creating and editing SVG files and vector images in the browser. It requires no account or subscription and offers drawing, freehand, select, bend, and basic shape tools, along with layers and viewbox settings. A vector editor is also available in Zero Block.
UMLet is a free, open-source UML tool with a simple user interface for drawing UML diagrams. Sequence and activity diagrams can be created from plain text, and diagrams can be exported to eps, pdf, jpg, svg and the clipboard. It is available as a stand-alone app for Windows, macOS and Linux, as an Eclipse plugin, as the UMLetino web app and as a Visual Studio Code extension.
VibePaint.ai is a browser-based generative AI design studio that converts freehand sketches into rendered digital art. Users draw on an HTML5 canvas or upload reference art, choose from visual styles and projection surfaces, and receive high-resolution exports. Videos of up to 10 seconds can serve as references.
