Paint, draw, and share your creations with the world using ArtClash. Currently in early access, with more exciting features on the horizon, ArtClash is not your typical drawing app. Unlike Sketchbook, Photoshop, Procreate, or Infinite Painter, ArtClash is designed to inspire daily practice in drawing, sketching, and cartooning.
ArtClash is the brainchild of a solo developer, crafted with love for his wife and the community of aspiring artists. It's a platform where you can either let your imagination run wild with free drawing or engage in structured challenges by choosing topics and optional constraints like time limits, color restrictions, or specific canvas sizes. The more accurately others guess your artwork, the more points you earn!
Current Features:
- Paint: Unleash your creativity with sketching, painting, and blending tools.
- Import Images: Use images as references or paint over them to enhance your work.
- Engage with Topics and Constraints: Select from a variety of topics and difficulty levels, from single words to complex phrases, and earn extra points by adhering to constraints like time, colors, or canvas size.
- Free Drawing: Create anything you desire and share it effortlessly with the community.
- NSFW Flagging: Opt to view or filter out images marked as NSFW by other users.
Early Access Issues and Bugs:
- User Interface: The current UI built on Unity has its challenges. We're planning to transition to XAML for a more responsive and visually appealing interface.
- Performance on Large Canvases: Keep your canvas size below 1024x1024 on lower-end devices for optimal performance. We're actively working on improving the GPU-accelerated brush engine and exploring alternative engines for better speed.
Upcoming Features:
- New Games: Starting with a "telephone" game using drawings.
- Enhanced Social Features: Personalize your profile with avatars, add comments to projects, connect with friends, and follow other artists.
- Improved UI and Brush Engine: Addressing current bugs for a smoother experience.
- Advanced Tools: Introducing marquee selection and transform tools.
- Expanded Brush Library: Add and share custom brush textures.
- Enhanced Layer System: Including options to lock transparent pixels and add masks.
- Developer Communication: A feedback system for feature requests, bug reports, and community voting on future updates.
- Moderation System: Empowering community members to become moderators for managing flagged content.
- User-Generated Content: Allow submissions of new topics and constraints for everyone to enjoy.
- Future Expansion: Plans for full image editing, animation, scripting, and game/storyboard prototyping.
While ArtClash currently focuses on social competition and encouragement rather than comprehensive image editing, we're committed to evolving it into a powerful tool for artists of all levels. Stay tuned for more updates and join us on this creative journey!
