Start drawing
Choose a brush and draw directly on the canvas. Use two fingers to pan and zoom on touch devices. On desktop, hold Space for temporary Hand mode.
Brushes
Pen is clean and dependable. Pencil is lighter. Ink creates firm lines. Marker is broad and translucent. Soft and Airbrush build gentle color gradually. Adjust size, opacity, hardness, flow, and smoothing in the Brush panel.
Stylus pressure
When the browser recognizes a pressure-capable pen, harder pressure widens the stroke and lighter pressure narrows it. Mouse and ordinary touch input use a stable fixed width.
Colors
Pick from the palette, color wheel, recent colors, or saved colors. Eyedropper samples a color from the artwork. The lower status area shows the active swatch and exact hex code.
Symmetry
Vertical symmetry mirrors left and right. Horizontal mirrors top and bottom. Both mirrors into four quadrants. The mirror center follows the center of the canvas.
Layers
Top layers appear in front. Select a layer before drawing on it. Rename, duplicate, lock, reorder, merge, or delete layers from the Layers panel. Lock important layers before experimenting.
Area Fill and Eraser
Area Fill colors one connected region and then returns to your previous brush. Large fills ask for confirmation. Eraser removes pixels from the active layer without changing the canvas background.
Selection, Move, and Line
Selection draws a movable box around pixels. Move shifts the entire active layer. Line previews while dragging and commits when released. Hold Shift on desktop to constrain the line direction.
Canvas and reference
Choose white, transparent, or solid backgrounds and apply a texture. Resize carefully because larger canvases require more memory. Reference images can be loaded, resized, faded, and locked.
Undo and recovery
The Undo indicator shows how much history is currently available. Before major merges, resizing, or clearing, export a Project backup. Project Safety can restore recent valid saves and safety snapshots.
Replay
Replay shows the visual progress of the artwork in a separate read-only player. Use Play, Pause, the timeline, speed controls, or frame stepping. Playback never changes the editable layers. New v130 drawings can begin from the blank canvas; older restored drawings begin from their first v130 session checkpoint.
Saving
Finish lets you name the artwork, continue drawing, save, or exit. Autosave waits until drawing is idle so it does not interrupt a stroke. “Saved” in the lower status area means the latest local draft completed successfully.
Artist shortcuts
Default desktop keys include B Pen, E Eraser, H Hand, V Move, L Line, F Area Fill, I Eyedropper, X Swap Color, M Symmetry, [ and ] Brush Size, and Ctrl/⌘+Z or Ctrl/⌘+Y for Undo and Redo. Customize them in Tools → Shortcuts.
Performance tips
For detailed mobile work, hide unused layers, close references when not needed, use a smaller canvas, and choose Performance mode for long Soft or Airbrush sessions. Export a backup before heavy edits.