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Main Blog It's true. I hate yaoi fangirls, and I am one. You may be looking at me with tears in your eyes right now and saying, "Why Chopstick... why?!" Well, I'm gonna tell you why. 1. You're just writing about them because they're hot. Let's just forget that they hated each other in the game. Let's completely forget that both of them were completely straight and had loving girlfriends in the anime. And heaven forbid I bring up the idea that they were really "just friends" in the manga. I'm not really bitching about drabbles or crackfics so much as I am the fifty-page-long epics that completely ignore canon. AND I MEAN COMPLETELY. Rinoa was just so whiny and Squall and Seifer were just SO KAWAII, you HAD to kill her or maim her or turn her into a ditzy bitch that Squall despised. I hated her too, you know, but I'm not willing to actually sit down and write her out of the picture in such an abrupt and unlikely way it could be considered a cop-out. For gods' sake, have pride in what you're writing and give it some believability. 2. You think Japanese is TEH BESTEST LANGY-WAGE EVAR. I said the word "kawaii" up there, and actually died a little on the inside when I did. I might use Japanglish in real life, but, uh, I use it with my Japanese friends. It stays out of my fics and my posts. Why? Because I speak English. I am making an English-speaking post. When I write fanfiction, I write it for the English-speaking reader. I think the most Japanese I've ever used in a fic was for my Petshop of Horrors fanfic, but those are honorifics, and I can't figure out a proper way to translate honorifics into English without them sounding competely retarded. Just to be completely clear, I'll include a little example that shows exactly what I hate. (And excuse any similarity to any actual fic; this is one of my own creation written just for this rant. However, if there is a fic just like this out there... I'm sure I hate it. A lot.) "Oh, Yuki-chan, you're so kawaii!" squealed Tohma, eyeing the blond bishounen. "Hn." Yuki arched an eyebrow at the CEO. "You baka. Urusai..." Tohma shook his head, leaning into Yuki insistently. "Urusai nai yo! Watashi wa aishteru!" WHAT. THE. FUCK. Okay, one: I've seen Japanese like this actually used in fics. And it's shit Japanese. Like, really shit Japanese. As in, "I-just-kinda-threw-some-stuff-I-saw-together-hope-it-fits-teehee" Japanese. IF YOU LOVE THE LANGUAGE SO MUCH, WHY DO YOU ABUSE IT? Some people might excuse it by saying, "Well, they're still learning. This is how they practice." They shouldn't be using the goddamn language in fics at all, dammit. There are forums and chatrooms and pen-pal programs and websites, ALL geared towards learning Japanese. Welcome to the Internet, kids. It's a wonderful place. Lemme introduce you to my best friend, Google. 3. You write shitty songfics. Okay, so maybe this is just a generic gripe that can go for any fic at all, but it runs pretty rampant in yaoi too. I hate songfics. I don't really care if a certain fic was inspired by a song, or features the lyrics quoted (at most, a few lines) before the fic starts, but any fic that features the song prominently in its body just annoys the crap out of me. It breaks up the flow of the fic pretty dreadfully and just distracts from it. Are you trying to hide the fact tht you can't write at all by hiding behind Prince's "When Doves Cry?" Sadly, I have seen perfectly good fics completely ruined by song lyrics randomly inserted inbetween paragraphs. Sometimes I go to the effort to actually open the fic in a word editor and remove the lyrics, but I mostly just skip over any fic that has "songfic" in its description completely. 4. You leave the WORST reviews. "liek omg ^_____^ THAT WUZ SO KAWAII!!!1 i luv inuyasha an miroku 2gether, their teh best lol ^_^;; PLZ WRITE MORE!!" You review everything like this. EVERYTHING. I don't care if it's the most typo-ridden, OOC, badly-written drivel that has ever graced the Intarwebnet, you think it is THE BEST THING EVER. And you will add it to your favorites list and surely read it at least once a week, because it features your favorite unlikely couple and that's all that matters, dammit. Man, that ticks me off. I've had the poor luck to run across terrible fics, then glance at the reviews and see eight pages of naught but praise. If you're going to read a pile of shit fic, at least have the grace to know that's what you're reading. If you don't out-and-out flame the author, at least give them what we of the more-than-one-brain-cell club like to call "constructive criticism" and tell them how to improve their fic. For the love of god, DON'T ENCOURAGE THE BAD WRITERS. The type of yaoi fangirl that does is part of the reason why the rest of us have to muck through page after page of poorly-written crap just to find a single good fic. Actually, this goes for flames, too. Often times this type of yaoi fangirl mindlessly flames any fic featuring a pairing she doesn't like, regardless of the actual fic's quality. "NO U SUCK SESSHOMARU ONLY LUVS NARAKU!!!11 >_<" 5. Your fics are terrible. This ties more into the ideas above, but I'd just like to expand on it a little bit. Most yaoi fics are what I like to call Old Yeller fics. They start out with a good idea, but after a while it just all goes to hell, and then it's time to take it out to the back yard and shoot it in the head. Tragic, but necessary. So sure, YaoiNoMiko0843 has this really cool idea... at first. But then she lapses into five million cliches, makes it a rape fic, kills off all the main female characters, and caps it all off with a wedding... and my next gripe. 6. You write MPREG. FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING GOD, WHY? You DO know that the characters you're writing are MALE, right? That they have penises and no tits, much less vaginas? I could possibly understand something like this when you're dealing with a mysterious, alien/otherworldly character (like D from Petshop of Horrors, maybe), but Quatre of Gundam Wing? Why? WHY? "But they're in love and they need to have a BAY-BEEEE, Chopstick!" you cry in protest, pointing to a very much in love Trieze and Zechs, with Zechs cradling his adorable hellspawn. What the fuck. Ever heard of adoption? Men don't have the equipment for making babies, kids; I don't care how many times you watched Junior. You're just writing it because you think that your adorable couple needs a baby to cement their relationship, and babies just have to come from the innards of one of them, or it just doesn't count. I swear to god, you'd think that to become a Gundam pilot it was a prerequisite to have ovaries planted up your ass, these fics are so rampant in the Gundam (Wing) fandom. 7. You don't care about spelling/grammar/typos/MY SANITY. I kick myself every time I catch the slightest mis-type I made that goes unnoticed by everyone else, I really do. You, on the other hand, don't give a damn. This is made obvious by the fact that you're misspelling the main character's name, using "loose" instead of "lose," and think that awkward only has one w in it. Okay, so I'm being a little unfair and pointing out some really common misspellings, but just consider this a public service. I don't really care about those two common misspellings as much as I care about those who commit the unforgivable crime of using Internet abbreviations, smilies, and/or 1337 speak in their fics. If Edward made a slightly nervous smile after he confessed his feelings to Greed, DO NOT express it with ^_^;. Write it. Describe it. And when you're done doing that, read it a few times over to make sure it's devoid of typos. Double-check your spelling of words you're not quite sure about. When to use "he and I" instead of "him and me": If you're writing about Edward and Alphonse going out to buy more condoms and lube and you're writing from Al's perspective, there is a common mistake with grammar, and that is to automatically use "he and I" because it "sounds more correct." As a rule of thumb, you subtract the other person from the sentence. If what you're using still makes sense ("I wanted to get the Astroglide" versus "Me wanted to get the Astroglide") then you're in the clear. 8. Your stupid Mary Sues/Marty Stus. You sneak them in when no one's looking. You insist they aren't self-inserts, but the smart ones know better. The Mary Sue is usually paired up with another character (not distracting from the main HAWT YAOI SEXX0RZ, of course), while the Marty Stu can either be paired up with the afore-mentioned "other character," or he can even be the other half of the actual yaoi pairing. Lesser crimes include making a Mary/Marty one of the main characters' confidants, despite the fact that there were twenty canonical characters to choose from. Suddenly there's this random, made up character that Leon has to run and confide in, despite the fact that he has D/Jill/Chris in the manga. 9. Addendum. I'm a yaoi fangirl. I confess this. I embrace this. I enjoy the occasional pure smut or WAFF or angst-ridden fic. Unfortunately, however, I do not always enjoy my fellow fangirls and what they produce. Ultimately I'm probably in the yaoi community to stay (for better or for worse), but that doesn't mean I'm not going to bitch about things every once in a while. Things can be improved. Always. I desperately want to see the yaoi fandom improve.

[finaltrinity]

Art References Tumblr Accounts!

Some of these may be in the wrong category. Some may need to be in another category! Do tell me (through my ask box) if I need to change or add something! Have fun looking through these accounts!

HUMAN ANATOMY

http://anatomicalart.tumblr.com/

http://amazinglyartisticadvice.tumblr.com/

http://learninganatomy.tumblr.com/

http://artutorials.tumblr.com/

http://referencesforartists.tumblr.com/

http://the-art-post.tumblr.com/

http://ibelievepracticemakesperfect.tumblr.com/

http://human-proportions.tumblr.com/

http://drawingwithpurpose.tumblr.com/

FASHION/CLOTHING

http://lifestylefashion.tumblr.com/

http://drawthisdress.tumblr.com/

http://saranghaex5.tumblr.com/

http://vogue.tumblr.com/

http://carnevaledivenezia.tumblr.com/

http://empireoffashion.tumblr.com/

http://neuro-mantique.tumblr.com/

http://calantheandthenightingale.tumblr.com/

http://dressesthatilike.tumblr.com/

http://fashionoverhype.com/

http://thingstheheartdesires.tumblr.com/

http://fuckyeahwarriorwomen.tumblr.com/

http://womenfighters.tumblr.com/

http://babesinarmor.tumblr.com/

http://omgthatdress.tumblr.com

http://10022-shoe.tumblr.com/

http://stitchmeapetticoat.tumblr.com/

http://dailydoseofcoats.tumblr.com/

http://frillsanthrills.tumblr.com/

http://fuckyeahchinesefashion.tumblr.com/

http://thisandthatstyle.tumblr.com/

ANIMATION

http://wannabeanimator.tumblr.com/

http://drawingforsuckas.tumblr.com/

http://animationtidbits.tumblr.com/

http://animationart.tumblr.com/

HISTORICAL

http://lostsplendor.tumblr.com/

http://doctormonocle.com/

http://tass-posters.tumblr.com/

http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/

http://www.cavetocanvas.com/

http://1920s.tumblr.com/

http://1930s.tumblr.com/

http://1940s.tumblr.com/

http://1950s.tumblr.com/

http://miyako-odori.tumblr.com/

http://okiya.tumblr.com/

http://tammy17tummy.tumblr.com/

http://mindthegarter.tumblr.com/

http://petticoatguru.tumblr.com/

http://hatsfromhistory.tumblr.com/

http://oldrags.tumblr.com/

http://cofairytales.tumblr.com/

http://ornamentedbeing.tumblr.com/

http://picturesofwar.net/

http://fuckyeahvictorians.tumblr.com/

http://theniftyfifties.tumblr.com/

http://theunconventional.tumblr.com/

http://yeoldefashion.tumblr.com/

http://vintagology.tumblr.com/

http://lament-for-the-past.tumblr.com/

http://asianhistory.tumblr.com/

http://art-of-swords.tumblr.com/

ART TIPS/TUTORIAL

http://fyeaharttips.tumblr.com/

http://fuckyeaharttutorials.tumblr.com/

http://art-tutorials.tumblr.com/

http://thecandyjar.tumblr.com/

http://eyecager.tumblr.com/

http://underappreciatedart.tumblr.com/

http://artists-help.tumblr.com/

http://how-to-art.tumblr.com/

http://artist-advice.tumblr.com/

http://learnfromwebcomics.tumblr.com/

http://tutorialsforatists.tumblr.com/

http://help-me-draw.tumblr.com/

http://howdoesidraw.tumblr.com/

ART REFERENCES

http://pb-resources.tumblr.com/

http://simonist.tumblr.com/

http://idlm.tumblr.com/

http://artreferences.tumblr.com/

http://theprophetandtheliar.tumblr.com/

http://art-help.tumblr.com/

http://artanecdotally.tumblr.com/

http://artiststoolbox.tumblr.com/

http://fuckingarthowdoesitwork.tumblr.com/

http://artkink.tumblr.com/

http://artresourcecollection.tumblr.com/

http://referensu.tumblr.com/

http://conceptlibrary.tumblr.com/

http://nazdorovie.tumblr.com/

http://iwantogohome.tumblr.com/

http://art-fridge.tumblr.com/

http://collectionofartreferences.tumblr.com/

http://archimaps.tumblr.com/

http://helpful-inks.tumblr.com/

http://college-campuses.tumblr.com/

http://fyeah-artreferences.tumblr.com/

http://usefulartreference.tumblr.com/

http://ashgrayart.tumblr.com/

http://how-to-art.tumblr.com/

http://onemoreartreferenceblog.tumblr.com/

http://art-aid.tumblr.com/

http://drawallthecouples.tumblr.com/

http://aswordfight.tumblr.com/

http://sequentials.tumblr.com/

http://ref-pixie.tumblr.com/

http://photoshopandfriends.tumblr.com/

http://artrefs-andtutorials.tumblr.com/

http://stufftodraw.tumblr.com/

http://foodpalettes.tumblr.com/

http://humanae.tumblr.com/

http://kxhara.tumblr.com/

ART INSPIRATION

http://pythias.tumblr.com/

http://submit.curioos.com/

http://stoopidanchovy.tumblr.com/

http://artistdirectory.tumblr.com/

http://fuckyeahillustrativeart.tumblr.com/

http://deviantfinds.tumblr.com/

http://gunnerromantic.tumblr.com/

http://1000reasonsnottostartmakingart.tumblr.com/

http://nightgrain.tumblr.com/

http://kayspiration.tumblr.com/

http://referenceartgallery.tumblr.com/

http://artforadults.tumblr.com/

http://clanless.tumblr.com

http://designindex.tumblr.com/

http://saycreative.tumblr.com/

http://fuckyeahconceptart.tumblr.com/

http://blog.drawn.ca/

http://stuckwithartblock.tumblr.com/

MISC.

http://attadesign.tumblr.com/

http://digitalgrfx.tumblr.com/

http://fixitredlines.tumblr.com/

http://youngartist-city.tumblr.com/

http://color-palettes.tumblr.com/

http://thisbelongsinamuseum.tumblr.com/

http://professorgoodwin.tumblr.com/

[anatoref]

Light and Shading Tutorial

[hylianjean]

This breaks it down a bit more toward the level I need

[shoomlah]

good tutorials are few and far between ( a lot of artists seem to get caught up in the superficial trappings of portraiture rather than the nitty gritty fundamentals), but these breakdowns by Bryan Lee are just fantastic.  Super applicable tips and tricks, no matter your personal technique/approach.

[kingcheddarxvii]

Takin’ Commissions - A Beginner’s Guide

Do you draw? Do you want to make money drawing? Are you like, sixteen, and unable to get a job? Well no matter your age or skill level, being open for commissions is a great way to practice your craft while making some cash. Taking commissions is pretty simple, but the hardest part is getting started. And I’ve learned the hard way over several years that there are lots of little obstacles that can get in the way of taking commissions efficiently. So if you’re interested in starting your own little art business, let me be your guide!

Keep reading

[scinerds]

A Video Game That Teaches You How To Code

“I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think,” Steve Jobs said in a lost interview from 1995.

But for a beginner, learning to code from scratch can be intimidating.

Enter CodeSpells. UC San Diego computer scientists developed this video game to teach people how to code. The story line is simple: you’re a wizard that uses spells (i.e. code) to navigate through the world, fight off foes, and solve problems.

While experienced coders can delve deep into the programming to create some truly devastating spells, newbies can easily experiment with the simple drag-and-drop coding interface.

If you’re into Minecraft, the CodeSpells team has also developed LearnToMod — a tool that teaches coding through Minecraft.

Learn more about CodeSpells

[foreverrhapsody]

I have the Tumblr equivalent of cleaning supplies...

a mass tag replacer

a way to find ALL of the tags you’ve ever used (mostly?)

and a way to find untagged posts

There will be some seriously intense organizing here soon.

[theasexualityblog-deactivated20]

Reblogging so I can do this later.

[blackeyebruise-deactivated20171]

OK I DONT KNOW IF THE STEVEN UNIVERSE FANDOM KNOWS ABOUT THIS ALREADY BUT IF NOT I FEEL THE NEED TO MAKE THE EXISTENCE OF GEMDAT.ORG KNOWN TO EVERYONE MAKING SU OCS

SO I JUST DISCOVERED THIS SITE A FEW MINUTES AGO AND HERE’S WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT IT

OK? YEAH. YOU CAN SEARCH GEMSTONES BY COLOR AS WELL AS BY CUT, AND WHILE I THINK THE COLOR SEARCH IS PROBABLY MORE USEFUL, SEARCHING BY CUT IS PRETTY INTERESTING TOO

AND OF COURSE, IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT KIND OF GEM YOU’RE LOOKING FOR, JUST REPEATEDLY REFRESH WHILE BORING YOUR EYES INTO THE “RANDOM GEMSTONE” CORNER

AND THEN, WHEN YOU GO TO A GEMSTONE’S PROFILE IT WILL GIVE YOU THESE

COLOR VARIATIONS!!!!

VARIATIONS OF THE GEMSTONE!!!

PHOTOS OF UNCUT SAMPLES!!!

AND OF COURSE A GIANT INDEX OF ALL THE GEMSTONES THEY HAVE INFO ON!!!!

THIS HAS BEEN A LOUD AND SOMEWHAT POORLY WRITTEN PSA!!!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME!!!

[rocketguts-deactivated20160209]

lockedoore

[rapidpunches]

You can print things at 150dpi but anything lower than that comes out pixellated.

300dpi is the minimum setting I use for drawing digital and printing from digital. The higher the pixels per inch the better the print is. It applies to scans too! Scan at 300dpi minimum.

Hope this helps!

[drawingden]

Thanks very much for this corrected version!

[piraticoctopus]

For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well. 

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

Can’t save OBJ files for export

Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)

It can’t load saved files

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you. 

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design. 

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers. 

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like. 

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.

Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.

[dandelionkit]

fuckyeahcabbages

[preludeinz]

art friends!

[kurisu004]

How to draw feet

[cgcookieconcept]

The Color Course: Understanding Color

Instructor: Tim Von Rueden (vonn)

Expert Input: Mel Herring (PurpleKecleon) or more recently GlitchedPuppet

This first half of the color course focuses on understanding color from the terms associated with color, how lights project color, choosing color schemes, and much more. We go into different discussions like why Red and Cyan are considered true complimentary colors instead of red and green.

We begin first breaking down what is Color? Why is there confusion when figuring out what is considered Red? As we continue throughout this course we will constantly refer back to the three terms that better explain what color is.

From there we dive into working digitally and the differences that brings when working with color projected with light rather than pigments. Once you begin understanding working in RGB (Red, Green, Blue) then it becomes easier understanding how colors mix in this digital format.

Working with color, we need to understand the color wheels associated with art and the difference between the traditional and modern color wheels. We will then show you how to choose these colors accurately from within Photoshop.

Then we take the time to look at the terms associated with color such as tint, tone, shade, monochromatic, greyscale, analogous, complimentary, and warm/cool. There are a lot of color terms but they are quite simple once you know the meaning of each.

The last section in our understanding color course looks at creating basic color schemes and we have a guest appearance from one of our favorite color artists, Mel Herring giving her insights on working with color as well!

[glitchedpuppet]

My latest video for ConceptCookie is out!

[myrrhemaid]

So I just found a life changing website called unroll me. You connect your email accounts and it shows you a list of emails you are subscribed to and can just unsub from any of them with a click of a button. I unsubscribed from 159 subscriptions from random ticket sites/clothing stores/outdated petition campaigns/etc. It is FREE so get on that if you’re an unorganized disaster like me

[hacked-account-follow-my-twitter]

[rocketroar-blog]

askcountbleck:

((Specify the muse when you do plox))

[gogomrbrown]

https://openstaxcollege.org

FUCK CAPITALISM! This didn’t cost tax payers anything. You don’t need to be a governing body with a police force to do decent things.

[ohthekorean-deactivated20160205]

stanfordetc freedomofscreech

[hagiographically]

THANK

[kelpls]

THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF PEONIES idk which one so i just drew the one that most people use

I’m sorry it’s no vrery detailed lies on my side

[nocturnaleannie]

Walt Explains Multiplane Camera

I’ll also do some notes on perspective and dynamic posing later. (We’ll see how dynamic posing goes considering I’m not too great at it myself so… yeahhhh.)

[apendaye]

PSA: Tumblr Update Fix || Complete Links/Instructions

[nemener-blog]

apendaye:

Stylish: Chrome || Firefox Classic Editor: Here Installation:

Download it

Restart browser –> Go to Classic editor Link

Click Install

Refresh

Tampermonkey: Chrome || Firefox Equivalent Script: Here Installation:

Download it

Restart browser –> Go to Script Link

Click “Install Script” –> Refresh

New xkit: Chrome || Firefox || Blog Installation:

Download it

Refresh –> Go to xKit like you usually would.

Get Extensions –> Install “xKit Installer”

Refresh –> Go to xKit –> Get Extensions –> Install “Editable Reblogs” 

[lycanbark]

Have you ever wanted to draw with your friend(s) online but found that iscribble and/or flockdraw just didn’t do what you needed them to? Did you miss features such as pen pressure and the undo button? Did you need more than three layers?

WELL I’VE GOT SOME GOOD NEWS

There’s this one tool that does SO MUCH MORE than either of those websites ever did. 

It’s called drawpile and it is fantastic.

Sure, flockmod actually has an undo feature, but when used it deletes everyone’s progress from a certain amount of time which would cause some issues!

But drawpile has an undo specified to your actions and only yours. So if you’re drawing with anyone else, and you control z the hell outta your drawing, your friend’s art will be completely unaffected! This is the only shared drawing program I have seen that can do this.

And it’s 100% free.

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE.

Drawpile supports PEN PRESSURE. Whether it’s for opacity, sizing, or hardness, or a combination of any of those, your tablet pens will work!

You can play around with your strokes to get them wherever you need them to be, much like a normal, individual art program!

And on top of that, you can have way more than just three layers!

You can have so many layers I literally don’t have the patience to try to find the limit. You can also rename them, clear them, make them invisible to you, and delete them as you wish!

ANNND it also has layer settings like normal drawing programs!

It doesn’t have all of the ones some individual programs do, but considering this is completely free and to be used by multiple people at once, this is incredible!

Not to mention you can lock a layer so only you can draw on it!

This is especially helpful to make sure no one accidentally does anything on your layer or any other layer that shouldn’t be touched!

Drawpile also has a paint bucket tool and the ability to open existing pictures in it so you can color pick from things for your art!

You can also mirror the canvas as you work and rotate it any way you need to in order to get your strokes just right!

You can also select certain pieces and rotate/transform/scale/move them as desired, which I never saw available in other group draws.

All you have to do is download the program from the site!

You also have a choice in what sort of session to make, and don’t have to make an account for it!

When you host a session for others to join, you can lock it with a password and give it out to only your friends. If you want it to be public, don’t set a password and check “announce at drawpile.net”.

Your session will then appear in a list for anybody to join!

There aren’t many people on at a time yet it seems, but honestly if you ever use iscribble or flockdraw, I HIGHLY suggest switching to this program. There aren’t any premium features either, from what I’ve seen. Unlike the other aforementioned sites, you don’t have to be a user for a certain amount of time to unlock different privileges.

I’m sure there are other features I haven’t mentioned either, but their site explains far better than I!

Download it here!