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Reprinted with thanks from:  http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/graphicsblog/2008/05/online-drawing-tools-free-online-painting-sketching-tools/ 

Art Pad 

 All My Magic Sketching Tool 

  AllMyMagic is an online drawing tool that allows you to draw, paint, upload image, use provided graphics and even add music to your one-of-a-kind WizCards. You can then send WizCards to friends or post them in your blog or any social network.

 Ajax Sketch  

  AjaxSketch is a web-based drawing tool that provides a familiar environment for diagramming, creating flow charts, free hand drawing and more. You can perform functions such as resize, rotate, change background or pen colors, and alter opacity…all from a Firefox browser! Once finished with your images, you can easily save your work right to your hard drive. This keeps you organized and works in the same way that you’re already accustomed to.

BRUSHster 

  BRUSHster is a painting machine for all ages. This interactive has more than forty brushes and many customizable size, transparency, and stroke options. A rainbow palette, along with a toolbox of special effects that blur, ripple, smudge, blend, and fragment your designs make BRUSHster a full-feature painting program. You can use it to draw pictures, but BRUSHster is programmed to create ABSTRACT art. Are you more interested in exploring color, gesture, shape, or line? BRUSHster can do it all.

Draw Online by Queeky  

Online drawing community for people who like drawing and share their pictures with others. This is a quality drawing program that you will enjoy using.

Draw Anywhere 

  Online diagramming with the look & feel of a desktop application! Draw & share Flowcharts, Process diagrams, Organizational charts and more.

Draw Space 

  This website not only includes some excellent drawing lessons but also includes some interactive space for creating and displaying your drawings.

Favicon Icon Drawing  

  Draw your own favicon or icon online for free using this entirely web-based, non-Java icon generator. All you need is a modern web browser like Firefox. The tool creates a 16×16 pixel icon in 16 colors with optional transparency.

Flash PAINT º Online Painting Tool  

  An Online Full Paint Application. With an online full painting application, you can draw online, save on your disk your drawings, and send your drawing to the public gallery .

 Gliffy 

  Create and Share Flow Charts, Diagrams, and More. With Gliffy online diagramming software, you can easily create Professional-looking flowcharts, Diagrams, Floor plans, and Technical drawings, and more! It’s easy to use and Free

ISketch 

  Join other people from around the world to play a fun game of online sketching! The object of the game is simple. Each player gets a chance to draw a word which the other players will try to guess. You can play anytime for free, 24 hours a day!

 Imagination Cubed 

  Imagine & draw Online … Have Fun & share with others. This is a great drawing program…with great graphics.

Kerpoof Studio 

  Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways you can use Kerpoof: With Kerpoof, you can create artwork (even if you aren’t good at drawing!), Make an animated movie (really! it’s easy!), Earn Koins which you will soon be able to spend in The Kerpoof Store, Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug, Tell a story, Make a drawing, Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made, and more.

Litha Paint 

  Litha-Paint alows you to create and share vector graphics using only a browser. You can store your work in your remote home directory.
Litha-Paint is a free HTML+Javascript vector graphic editor. It doesn’t depend on browser-side plugins such as Flash and doesn’t depend on browser specific things such as VML or SVG.

Mai’Nada - Comics Sketch - Social Comic Artists 

  This is a new enterly free site for users and guest to come a draw humor sketches and comic strips. It’s the 1st and best Comic Stip Sketch-based Creator online.

Mikons

Use the Mikon Machine™, our cool vector drawing tool, to create the symbols that tell your story. You can design from scratch or remix other graphics to build your personal set of Mikons. Publish your Mikons and choose how you would like to share them, possibly with your family, friends, and co-workers; or you can always keep them private. Connect with other Mikoners, search for people with similar Mikons, join a community, email a fellow Mikoner, view your friends list and much more!

Noughts

Cool Japanese Tool to have Fun Online & make cool Drawings

Odopod

Very Cool Sketchpads .Try this sketchpad too, it is a nice one

Offtype.net: create image online

Offtype.net is a fast, fun, free and easy way to create your own images online. It allows to draw sketch or road map, to create graffiti, pixel art, drawing, to paint ecard, handwrite message or note. The resulting image will be saved on the offtype.net free web server and can be used anywhere on the Web. You can share it in your blog, journal, newsletter, message board, email, chat, gallery etc.

Online drawing by Ababasoft

Play and fun this free online painting flash games. Draw the figure upside down (topsy-turvy). Draw any free time. Try to make circles; Try to make parallel lines; Have a proportion Celebrity Pencil Portraits Learn how to draw lifelike, pencil portraits of family, friends. favorite personalities. Demonstrations, hints, tips and books. Drawing and Sketching drawing - original drawing lessons, how to draw tutorials, drawing gallery Learn to draw with graphite pencil, colored pencil, charcoal, and pen and ink.

Online Drawing Board

This free online drawing program allow you to make e-cards online. You can not only save thses E-cards but also send them to your Loved ones & even submit that E-cards for contest.

PaintBox

Choose a background image or start with a blank slate, then draw something in PaintBox. Add warp effects to make silly pictures. PaintBox is fun for children of all ages

Paint – WiiPlayable

This nice looking paint program lets you draw with markers using your wiimote mouse.

Pencil

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source. This is an amazing program that is a thrill to use.

Play Line Rider Online | Line Rider

In Line Rider the player draws your own landscape with a simple pencil tool creating as many ramps, hills, and jumps as you can imagine.

Qbesq

Qbesq is the a nice little Flash arabesque drawing tool. This drawing tool is in the early development stages, but it is quite nice and works well.

Queeky

Queeky is an online drawing community for people who like drawing and share their pictures with others. All pictures made on Queeky can be replayed by the visitors. See how an intersting picture is made and learn from the top artists. The benefits of this site is that you can create drawings, edit drawings, continue pictures of other users, create a profile with your own subdomai, make friends, share drawings on your blog or website, and write comments.

quikmaps.com

 

You can draw over the Google Maps. Give Locations your Desired Shpes & remember them with your favorite Shape as well. Drag things onto and around the map. Right click on things to delete them. Try some doodling!

Rate My Drawing

RateMyDrawings is an online drawing community. Draw online, watch people draw, learn to draw and share your creativity with other artists. All you need is your mouse and you can draw online in minutes! Create drawings that automatically animate stroke-by-stroke. DrawChat - live chat and draw with other users as the same time. Monthly competitions to participate in and possibly win prizes.

Retrievr

Retrievr is a new experimental service which lets you search and explore a selection of Flickr images by drawing out a rough sketch.

Roxik | Pictaps

Draw something and then Make your drawings dance. It is sort of fun.

Яндекс.Краски. Нарисуйте свою открытку!

Russian Drawing tool that is really quite a nice tool. Although the words on the page make no sense to me because I don’t speak Russian, it looks like a top quality drawing and painting tool.

Sketchcast.com

Sketchcasting is a new way to communicate something online by recording a sketch, optionally with your voice speaking. Any sketch can then be embedded on your blog/ homepage for people to play-back, and you can also point people to your sketchcast channel here (or let them subscribe to your sketchcast RSS feed). Create a tutorial explaining how boomerangs work (and why they don’t always return). Draw a doodle of your ex. Explain a math formula. Create a cartoon (you can use the eraser tool to make place for several panels of the cartoon). Get a partner and explain a concept together… voice recording doesn’t have to be used by only one person! Write a love letter with lots of sketching inbetween. Create an online Chinese course and explain Pinyin writing. Create a masterpiece and show others how to draw. Explain baseball to Europeans… or explain soccer to Americans! Create a riddle for kids: draw something and the kid has to guess while you’re drawing. Draw a manga action scene. Or many other drawing ideas.

Sketchfu

Draw Any thing Online and share with friends. Captures Video of your Drawing & can plat it later & share it with your Friends that how made this Sketch

Sketch Planet

Sketchplanet is an online user-driven sketching community. By registering you can sketch, vote, create groups and more.

SwarmSketch

SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week. In this way, the collective is sketching what the collective thought was important each week. A new sketch begins after one week, or after the previous sketch reaches one thousand lines, whichever comes first. Each user can contribute a small amount of line per visit, then they are given the opportunity to vote on the opacity of lines submitted by other users. By voting, users moderate the input of other users, judging the quality of each line. The darkness of each line is the average of all its previous votes.

Sketch Swap

Cool Fun Draw & share tool. In Sketch Swap, you draw something on the screen, and when you’re finished, you hit “Submit drawing”… to receive a random drawing from someone else. Sketch Swap was inspired by Markus Renschler’s FileSwap.

Scribble

Once described as an open canvas to create and share drawings, this popular drawing app is back after 2 years offline. One of the best features of this app is the ability to see how each drawing was made as Scribble redraws the picture stroke by stroke. Scribble now includes functionality to send your favourite drawings to your nearest and dearest.

Scriblink - Your Online Whiteboard

Scriblink is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time. On the homepage you’ll be immediately directed to a Scriblink board, which is free and requires no registration. Here you can take advantage of all sorts of useful features such as Privacy, Dynamic Tools, Image Upload, and In-Screen Chat.

WebSketch

Make Sketches Online & have Fun. This is a cool little program that you might want to try.

WebCanvas - The World’s Largest Collaborative Painting.

WebCanvas is a world-wide collaborative painting project. In this site anyone with a modern web-browser can move around an ‘infinite’ canvas. Using available painting tools is its also possible to draw and upload images. Furthermore it is possible to view other users painting if they happen to be painting within the same viewing area. This site is the evolution from our proof-of-concept, GraffyWall - This was the first WebSite to allow users to draw directly onto a boundless WebCanvas simply by using a web-browser. This introduced a new Web concept where users can instantaneously and directly create WebSites using the intuitive drawing paradigm just like pen and paper.

Web Brush

Create a new WebBrush board or load an existing WebBrush board. Then enter your name and password. Invite partners, colleagues, friends and then collaborate… discuss… create…draw.

You Draw

By creating an exhibition that will show 6 billion drawings of the world’s people together for the first time ever, the YouDraw project hopes to show humanity at human proportions. 500,000 drawings posted on YouDraw’s Draw Pad will be published in a book specially designed for the You Draw / Humanity at Human Proportions drawing exhibition. DrawPad is a simplle little online tool that lets you create your own piece of art to be added to the project.

Skrbl

(Not free - $10 per month) Simple and easy online multi user whiteboard, start skrbl, give out your URL & start working together. Sketch, text, share files, upload pictures all in one common shared space. There are no new tools to learn, nothing to download, nothing to install. Brainstorm on our simple whiteboard to start thinking together, everyone sees the same screen, everybody gets on the same page.

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 Sketch Pan 

http://www.queeky.com/app/

http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/brushster.htm

PDF with images of Art and Painting Online Links for 8th Grade Living Online/Digital Nation Projects

 

Parent Letter Page 1 Signed Due by Monday 8/22

Supplies Due By Monday 8/22

  1. Parent Letter, Page 1, signed.
  2. New or Used USB Memory Stick - 1GB or more 
  3. Bring Microphone and/or Headphones (if you have them-OPTIONAL)
  4. Writing Utensil (no highlighters)
  5. Bring Your Planner & ID
  6. Cell Phone or other digital device (if you have one-OPTIONAL)

Agendas - First Semester 2011-2012

Day 1 08/17/11