Existing solutions had clunky interfaces and didn’t feel good to write with on iPad. May-Li was responsible for a design team that was half remote, and missed the ease of solving problems together using rough sketches. Bridger was tutoring his niece on the other side of the country. But I suppose as long as there’s idiots like me they’ll always be rude scribbles getting in the way of any real art.In 2017, Bridger and May-Li separately found themselves in need of a simple shared whiteboard. And since returning to the site I’ve seen some talented artists at work. There’s undoubtedly a vast amount of possibilities for this marvellous creation, not just noughts and crosses and bell-ends.

Mr.doob blogs that he started a sketch – that you can see in the video below – and people joined in helping him produce something far from his own imagination. One reader comment on Mr.doob’s blog states: “Can you add a penis stamp tool? Would save me a lot of time.”Īpart from the phallic-based fun there are a lot of talented artists helping each other craft intriguing pieces of computer art. Indeed later on in the night it was plain to see this was a reoccurring theme big ones with small testicles, small ones with big testicles, chodes, toads, anything goes. On his blog the creator of the sketchpad unhappily acknowledges: “As expected, people like to draw male reproduction organs all over the place,” so I was not alone in my idea, although I should have realised this with the earlier accomplice calling him, or herself, “dickdrawer”. But before I can say where’s the sp… “Miss Sunshine” steps in to help complete the creation in the form of crude droplets of population paste flowing from its source. Seconds pass and before I know it the three of us have fashioned together a pixelated homage to the male genitalia. This is the finest web-ting man has ever created. Clicking and dragging the cursor I created the classic mushroom-shaped crown, but wait… someone named “4763” is helping me out, he’s sketching an adjacent veiny shaft, and shit me! Who’s this? A person, with the apt moniker “dickdrawer”, is starting what appears to be a fleshy pair of men’s erotic baubles, complete with curlies. With the template etched into my mind I set about constructing the schoolboy’s perennial doodle. I decided on the universal daubing that binds humankind since records began – a cock with a pair of love conkers. An enchanted forest, a leafy glade, a trickling mountain stream, anything. What shall I create? I could draw anything, albeit piss-poorly, but nonetheless, anything. Multiuser Sketchpad is a wicked experiment.Īccessing the blank canvas that night I searched my creative mind for some inspiration. I found the virtual pad by visiting Chrome Experiments a site that showcases various web-based games, drawing tools, and other geek wizardry that work in your browser, specifically Google Chrome. It’s designed by web developer boffin Ricardo Cabello, aka Mr.doob, and is a good way to waste time, if you have time to waste, which unfortunately on Saturday night I did.

This ingenious tool allows you to draw, or if you’re like me squiggle badly, anything you want on a virtual blank canvas where anyone online at the same time can sketch with you simultaneously.

Online sketchpad multiuser