- Freehand drawing on the canvas
- Adjustable size (1–80px) via sidebar slider or Pencil modal
- Adjustable opacity (5–100%) via Pencil modal
- Paths are selectable objects after drawing
- Pencil — standard freehand line
- Pen — thin precision line with soft shadow
- Brush — wide semi-transparent stroke
- Marker — flat square-tipped stroke
- Spray — scattered spray paint effect
- Chalk — textured chalk effect
- Watercolor — soft radial color blobs
- Ink — variable-width calligraphy line
- Size and opacity adjustable in the Brushes modal
- Paints white over the canvas
- Same size control as pencil
- Click a shape to fill it with the current color
- Click the background for flood-fill
- Works correctly at any zoom level
- Places an editable text object at canvas center
- Double-click to edit content
- Font family: Arial, Georgia, Impact, Courier, Verdana, Comic Sans, Times New Roman
- Font size (8–120px), color, adjustable in the right panel when selected
- Rectangle (outline or filled)
- Circle (outline or filled)
- Triangle
- Line
- Arrow
- Star
- Click to insert at canvas center, then drag handles to resize
- Drag directly on canvas for free-draw shapes (rect, circle, triangle, line)
- Stroke color and width use current color and brush size
- Click an object to select it
- Drag over multiple objects to select them all
- Arrow keys to nudge (hold Shift for 10px steps)
- Delete / Backspace to remove selection
- Remove selected object(s) from canvas
- Also via right panel Delete button
- Duplicate selected object, offset by 20px
- Clone is immediately selected and ready to move
- Mirror selected object horizontally or vertically
- Up — bring selected object one step forward
- Down — send selected object one step backward
- Fill background layer is always protected at the bottom
Opacity
- Adjust object transparency (0 = invisible, 1 = fully opaque)
Stroke
- Set outline color and width (0–20px) on any selected object
- Shadow color, blur (0–50), offset X and Y (−100 to 100)
- Works on any selected object
- Pick any color via native color input
- 12 preset swatches for quick access
- Opacity slider (5–100%) affects new strokes and selected objects
- Recent colors palette auto-filled as you draw
- Mini palette in sidebar for one-click color switching
- Add any image file from your device
- Auto-scaled to fit the canvas at 80%
- Placed as a selectable, resizable object
- Pre-made SVG images organized by category
- Categories: Animal, Meme, Media, Food, Nature, Number, Symbol
- Click a thumbnail to add to canvas center
- Images are scaled to 80% of canvas size
- Drag corner handles to define crop area
- Drag center to reposition the zone
- Click Apply to crop, Cancel to abort
- Canvas resizes to the cropped dimensions
- Select an image object first with the Select tool
- Brightness −1 to 1
- Contrast −1 to 1
- Saturation −1 to 1
- Blur 0 to 1
- Reset Filters button restores the original
Canvas size
- Presets: 800×520, 1200×630, Square (800×800), Portrait (600×900)
- Custom size with manual width/height input
- Current size shown in bottom-left of canvas area
- Last used size is remembered between sessions
- Remove all objects and reset to white background
- Confirmation required — action is irreversible
- + / − buttons in the bottom-right corner
- Mouse wheel to zoom in/out at cursor position
- Pinch gesture on touch screens
- Click the zoom percentage to fit all objects in view
- Minimum zoom: 100% (no zoom out below original size)
- Maximum zoom: 600%
- Zoom resets to 100% on page load
- PNG — with transparency, full resolution
- JPG — with white background, full resolution
- PDF — vector-friendly, correct canvas proportions
- Export always uses the real canvas size, not the zoomed view
- Save up to 5 projects in your browser (localStorage)
- Name each project before saving
- Load any saved project (replaces current canvas)
- Delete individual projects
- Saving a 6th project removes the oldest automatically
- Publish your drawing publicly to the DrawIsland gallery
- Requires a free account (login or sign up)
- Add title (required, 2–100 chars), description and tags (optional)
- Option to allow others to remix your drawing
- Drawings may require admin approval before appearing publicly
- Your work is automatically saved to your browser every ~1.2 seconds
- Restored automatically on next visit
- Always starts at 100% zoom on reload
- Up to 60 steps of history
- Tracked actions: draw, shapes, fill, text, move, resize, delete, crop, clone
- Undo via sidebar button or Ctrl+Z
- Redo via sidebar button or Ctrl+Y / Ctrl+Shift+Z
CtrlShiftZ
Redo (alternate)Delete / Backspace
Delete selected object(s)↑ ↓ ← →
Nudge selected object 1pxShift↑ ↓ ← →
Nudge selected object 10pxEscape
Close any open modalScroll
Zoom in / out at cursorPinch
Zoom in / out (touch)
Mobile toolbar
- Compact toolbar at the top: Pencil, Eraser, Select, Color, Size, Undo, Redo, Save
- More button reveals Fill, Text, Rect, Circle, Arrow, Clear, Upload, Share
- Color dot opens native color picker
- Size adjusted with − / + buttons
- Share button uses native share sheet (downloads on desktop)
- Sidebar and right panel are hidden on mobile