Really bad title: new online drawing application from devianART.
This sort of demo was shown before on here as part of HTML5 demos - but I don't think they claim to work with WACOM as this one claims to (via plugin).
Surprisingly, the other one only has 2 points. This is another example showing how heavily other factors weigh in getting upvoted, as opposed to just purely the content of the website.
Are there competitors to deviantart? Because I have seen them reign supreme for many years now and cant recall anyone being as successful in this market.
dA is like Facebook. It's hard to compete with because it depends on the social network aspect. There are people with tens and hundreds of thousands of pageviews and thousands of watchers who have never submitted any art.
In the community aspect http://conceptart.org/forums/ was much better than deviantart (though they seem to have gotten much more commercial and I can't comment now as I haven't been there for quite a while).
Its a great bit of work, the brush engine is simple to pick up too.
I really wish deviantART would fork the github repo, its not a drastic departure from the current source. i'd love to see how the WACOM integration works!
I wonder how many people have paid for the extras in the DA version.
I don't think there is any special Wacom integration despite the "Works with Wacom" (what doesn't?), it doesn't take notice of pressure or anything like that anyway.
edit: My mistake. It detects when you're using the eraser, but that's it.
edi2: Actually some of the brushes do seem to be pressure sensitive but it doesn't seem to work on all of the brushes it should.
I wonder why it's based on that rather than a more conventional painting program. The 'webby' and 'chrome' type brushes are kind of difficult to use and get the effect that you want.
In particular, the brushes behave differently. Note how in Harmony the currently-drawn line interacts with old lines, whereas in dA's one it only interacts with its own current segment.
Looks like your right, i cant find many similarities in the code. I had heard from a very good source that it was directly based on Harmony, perhaps only in concept it seems!
Thanks for pointing this out. Currently eating my own hat.
I don't know if it can even really be said to be conceptually based on Harmony. They're certainly both drawing tools using Canvas, but that's like saying Photoshop is based on MS Paint because they're both drawing tools on Windows.
Harmony is all about the procedural generation of images by interaction with previously drawn points. dA muro doesn't really permit that at all... which is a shame, as that's a technique with really interesting applications
This is the exact question that I raise whenever I find a new one (and there seems to be many). Lots of people use Aviary but that is more a Photoshop sudo-replacement over a true "drawing app."
It would be great if someone did some deep traffic analysis on all of these.
I'm unclear on how to save images with this. I'd think that anyone with a DA account would receive (and/or be able to buy) some file storage space and save their work to it for recall later, or on another machine. Instead, all I see is an Image->Export option. Am I missing something obvious, or is DA?
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Really awesome.
It's freemium, you can pay for extra brushes.
http://www.paperdemon.com/
http://sheezyart.com/
http://storm-artists.net/
Disclaimer: I was a moderator at storm-artists.net for a little while.
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/deviantart.com+sheezyart.co...
has a 3d orientation but same basic idea.
Its a great bit of work, the brush engine is simple to pick up too.
I really wish deviantART would fork the github repo, its not a drastic departure from the current source. i'd love to see how the WACOM integration works!
I wonder how many people have paid for the extras in the DA version.
edit: My mistake. It detects when you're using the eraser, but that's it.
edi2: Actually some of the brushes do seem to be pressure sensitive but it doesn't seem to work on all of the brushes it should.
I also did pressure sensitive drawing for Colorillo: http://colorillo.com/blog/2010/07/pressure-sensitive-drawing...
What would you like to know about it?
As for the WACOM integration, the docs here seem reasonably explanatory: http://www.wacomeng.com/web/release_notes.htm - thanks for the offer however :)
Just had a play with Colorillo, looks great!
In particular, the brushes behave differently. Note how in Harmony the currently-drawn line interacts with old lines, whereas in dA's one it only interacts with its own current segment.
Harmony is all about the procedural generation of images by interaction with previously drawn points. dA muro doesn't really permit that at all... which is a shame, as that's a technique with really interesting applications
It would be great if someone did some deep traffic analysis on all of these.
If anyone can pull off selling brushes as digital goods its them.
How am I supposed to continue working on the image later, or on a different PC or tablet, if the only way I can save it is by sending it to GMail?
http://devbug.deviantart.com/blog/34734592/