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FAIR Animated Drawings is an implementation of the algorithm described in the paper 'A Method for Automatically Animating Children's Drawings of the Human Figure'. It is a Python package for creating animations starring user-drawn characters, configurable to switch characters, apply different motions and change output formats. A browser-based demo is also referenced.
Animated Drawings is a video tool for editing, effects, stock footage, animation, 3D, or creator workflows.
SetPose is an online 3D pose maker and digital mannequin for artists. Users adjust a 3D drawing model to create custom poses, combine them with props, and use them as drawing reference; the tool includes preset poses, inverse kinematics controls, and a timed drawing challenge.
Artvee is a site for browsing and downloading high-resolution public domain paintings, drawings, illustrations and posters. It organizes works by categories such as abstract, figurative, landscape, posters, illustration, religion, mythology, drawings and still life, and shows artworks with artist names and dates.
Drawpile is a free, open source collaborative drawing program that lets multiple people draw, sketch, paint and animate on the same canvas at once. It also works offline as a lightweight drawing program. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, plus a browser version.
LazPaint is an image editor with a hybrid single-window or multi-window interface and a main drawing canvas. It offers drawing tools such as brush/pen, eraser and fill, plus selection tools, layers, transformations, color adjustments, filters and effects. Builds are listed for Windows, Linux, Linux ARM, UNIX, macOS and a Qt5 variant; panels can be floated, and a dark theme is available.
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.
WigglyPaint is a free browser-based animated drawing tool that turns hand-drawn lines into wiggly animations. It is used for doodles, pixel art, comics, memes and GIF-style artwork, with GIF and video export. The core web drawing tool is free and does not require signup, and it also runs on iPhone and iPad with Apple Pencil support.
Buzzly.art is an art community site showing latest and featured artwork, with posts tagged by themes such as characters, fan art and original characters. The homepage lists Halloween 2026 and other drawing events.
Cadmapper creates 3D CAD files of any area in the world from public data sources such as OpenStreetMap, NASA and USGS, producing organized, layered drawing files. Areas up to 1 km2 are free, files up to 100 km2 cost a small fee, and whole-city road network DXF files are free. It targets designers, architects and illustrators, with support for AutoCAD and SketchUp.
Clipnote Studio is a basic animation tool for Windows, described as a spiritual successor to Nintendo's defunct Flipnote Studio. It offers square and circle brushes, line and shape tools, a text tool, six colors, three drawing layers, automatic note importing and user profiles. Mac and Linux ports are in the works; Wine is suggested for now. A $5 license provides custom themes and a supporter badge.
Dia is free, open-source drawing software for creating structured diagrams. A Windows version is available as a free download, and the download page also provides packages for Mac OS X and Linux. The software is released under the GNU General Public License, GPLv2.
draw.io is a free diagramming application for drawing technical diagrams and web-based sketching. Diagrams can be stored in online storage platforms, a browser, a local device, or offline with a standalone desktop app. It integrates with platforms including Atlassian Confluence and Jira, Google applications, GitHub, GitLab, Microsoft applications and Notion.
drawDB is a free, open-source online database schema design and ER diagram tool. It supports drawing ER diagrams, generating SQL for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server and Oracle, and real-time collaboration. The editor runs in the browser with no account required, and Pro adds cloud storage, teams and collaboration.
DrawIsland is a free online drawing tool for sketching, painting and digital art in the browser without a download. It includes multiple brushes, an eraser, flood fill, editable text, shapes, object selection with layer ordering, opacity, stroke and shadow controls, image adjustments and a layers panel on an 800 × 520 px canvas.
Embossify.com is an online design utility that converts JPEG images and drawings into 3D STL meshes suitable for 3D printing or CNC routing. It produces lithophanes, reliefs and other 3D design elements by tessellating a JPEG pixel by pixel into a topographic model of the image's brightness. Low resolution renderings are free; high resolution renderings cost $5 each.
FireAlpaca is free digital painting software for Windows and Mac, available in 10 languages. It offers customizable brushes, weekly original brushes, five brush textures, and post-drawing line adjustment, along with tools such as frame work, animation, gradient map, and 3D perspective grid.
FliiipBook is a web app for drawing frame-by-frame animations and exporting them as GIFs in the browser. It includes onion skinning, timeline controls and keyboard shortcuts, and works best on desktop or tablet.
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.
