40 websites for artists and anyone who draws
For artists, illustrators and doodlers. There are painting apps in the browser, pose and anatomy references, pixel art editors and whole museum collections to study.
Updated · 40 sites · hand-checked
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1. Kleki
A painting app in a browser tab with natural brushes, layers and filters, and an interface uncluttered enough to just start drawing.
- Design & Type
- Open source
- kleki.com
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2. Piskel
A pixel-art and sprite-animation editor that runs in the tab, with onion skinning and GIF export. Everything you need to make a walk cycle and nothing you do not.
- Design & Type
- Open source
- piskelapp.com
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3. Photopea
A full Photoshop-class image editor in a browser tab. Opens PSD, XCF, Sketch and RAW files.
- Design & Type
- Freemium
- photopea.com
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4. Angle Ref
Find portrait photo references by dragging a 3D head to the exact angle you need to draw.
- Design & Type
- Free
- angleref.com
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5. Anatomy Atelier
Explore the human body in 3D, organ by organ, with hotspots and short lessons on what each part does.
- Science & Space
- Free
- anatomyatelier.org
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6. AutoDraw
Scribble a lopsided bicycle and a neural net offers clean drawings of bicycles by real illustrators to swap in. A Google experiment.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- autodraw.com
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7. Quick, Draw!
You have twenty seconds to draw a prompt while a neural network guesses out loud. Then see how millions of others drew the same thing.
- Games & Play
- Free
- quickdraw.withgoogle.com
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8. Silk
Draw symmetrical, glowing, silk-like patterns that look far better than your actual drawing skill.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- weavesilk.com
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9. Bomomo
A row of strange brushes that swarm, orbit and bounce after your cursor, leaving patterns you could never draw yourself.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- bomomo.com
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10. Jackson Pollock
Move your mouse and paint drips across the screen, faster for thinner lines. Click to change colour. An internet art piece from 2003 that still works.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- jacksonpollock.org
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11. make 8-bit art!
A cheerful little pixel-art canvas by Jenn Schiffer. Pick a colour, pick a brush size, draw, save as PNG.
- Design & Type
- Open source
- make8bitart.com
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12. Lospec
The reference library for pixel art: thousands of curated colour palettes, plus a browser pixel editor, dithering tools and tutorials for working under tight constraints.
- Design & Type
- Free
- lospec.com
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13. Google Arts & Culture
Gigapixel scans from the world museums, plus tours, stories and some genuinely fun experiments.
- Read & Archive
- Free
- artsandculture.google.com
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14. Rijksstudio
Download seven hundred thousand works from the Rijksmuseum in extraordinary resolution, free to reuse.
- Read & Archive
- Free
- rijksmuseum.nl
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15. Sketch Toy
Draw something and share it as a replay, so the person you send it to watches every stroke appear in order.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- sketchtoy.com
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16. This Is Sand
Pour coloured sand into dunes with your cursor. Meditative in a way no productivity app manages.
- Fun & Weird
- Freemium
- thisissand.com
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17. Inkarnate
Paint fantasy world, region and city maps with hand-drawn stamps, coastlines and textures. Good enough for a novel's endpapers or a D&D table.
- Fun & Weird
- Freemium
- inkarnate.com
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18. Dungeon Scrawl
Draw dungeon and battle maps for tabletop games in a hand-inked old-school style. Rooms, corridors and hatching snap into place, no sign-up.
- Design & Type
- Free
- dungeonscrawl.com
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20. Book of Shapes
A gallery of algorithmic patterns you can tweak with sliders and download as SVG or PNG.
- Design & Type
- Free
- bookofshapes.com
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21. Dimensions
Dimensioned drawings of everyday things, from furniture and cars to sports fields and animals, with downloadable CAD files.
- Design & Type
- Freemium
- dimensions.com
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22. Doodle Fonts
Draw each letter by hand and download the result as a working font file.
- Design & Type
- Free
- doodlefonts.app
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23. Draw a Fish
Draw a fish and release it into a shared tank where everyone else's fish are already swimming. Vote for your favourites.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- drawafish.com
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24. FFF
A collection of small interactive experiments by designer Jongmin Kim, each with its own odd physics and visuals to poke at.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- fff.cmiscm.com
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25. Image to ASCII
Turn any image into ASCII art with sliders for character count, contrast and edge detection, then copy it as text.
- Design & Type
- Free
- asciiart.eu
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26. PerlerBeads
Turn any picture into a fuse-bead pattern with a bead count per colour, mapped to Perler, Hama and Artkal palettes.
- Everyday Tools
- Free
- perlerbeads.net
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27. Photo From Emoji
Upload a photo and it gets rebuilt as a mosaic made entirely of emoji.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- photofromemoji.com
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28. SpacePlanner
Draw floor plans and furniture layouts right in the browser, no sign-up, and see the room in 3D when you're done.
- Design & Type
- Free
- spaceplanner.co
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29. StoryTribe
Make storyboards by dragging in ready-drawn characters, poses and backgrounds, then share the board with a link.
- Design & Type
- Free
- storytribeapp.com
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32. gradient.horse
Draw a horse, any horse, and watch it gallop across the screen with everyone else's drawings.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- gradient.horse
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33. Patrick Heintzmann Lab
A notebook of realtime graphics experiments: shaders, simulations and odd prototypes to poke at.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- lab.patrickheintzmann.com
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34. Sprite Fusion Destroy
Type in any web address and the page turns into a pixel-art level you can smash apart, alone or with friends.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- destroy.spritefusion.com
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35. Terraink
Make minimalist map posters of any city, styled to taste and exported print-ready as PNG, PDF or SVG.
- Maps & Earth
- Free
- terraink.app
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36. Animated Drawings
Upload a child's drawing of a person or creature and it gets a skeleton, then walks, jumps and dances. A research demo from Meta.
- Fun & Weird
- Free
- sketch.metademolab.com
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37. Draw a Stickman
Draw your own stick figure hero, then draw keys, fire and boats to get them through the adventure.
- Games & Play
- Free
- drawastickman.com
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38. Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator
Generate a whole fantasy world with continents, rivers, nations, cultures and trade routes, then edit every detail. Worldbuilders' favourite.
- Fun & Weird
- Open source
- azgaar.github.io
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39. Haikei
Generate layered waves, blobs, blurred gradients and low-poly backgrounds as SVG. Every shape has sliders and a randomise button.
- Design & Type
- Free
- haikei.app
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40. Open Peeps
A hand-drawn library of people you assemble from heads, bodies, faces and poses. Released into the public domain, so use them anywhere.
- Design & Type
- Free
- openpeeps.com
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Kleki and Photopea are full painting apps in the browser, and Piskel is a free pixel art and sprite editor.
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