Today, we've chosen to highlight five great tools to turn drawing into a shared experience. These are tools that are perfect for collaborating on business designs or just making masterpieces with your friends.
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1. OMGPOP: Draw My Thing
OMGPOP (formerly iminlikewithyou) is host to a very popular group drawing game called Draw My Thing, which is another fun variation of Pictionary. Try to guess what the other user is drawing and chat with fellow guests.
2. Scriblink
Scriblink is an online business tool for collaborative whiteboard projects and drawings. Invite people to draw on the board and work together on design specs from afar. Two of its most useful features are image uploads, which makes it easy to circle important points on images, and VOIP conference calling from within the application. Another similar business drawing tool is Skrbl.
3. RateMyDrawings
RateMyDrawings allows artists to enter virtual drawing competitions using an online canvas and drawing tools. But one of the coolest things about it is DrawChat, which allows users to draw and chat about a drawing together and then publish it to the site. This is definitely a drawing website for the serious artist.
4. Graffiti Facebook Application
Graffiti is a popular Facebook application that allows you to draw, sketch, and doodle your way into your friends' hearts. Although you can't collaborate on individual drawings, you can do "doodle-to-doodle," which allows you to reply to graffiti with your own drawing.
In addition, Graffiti allows you to see how the drawing was made with the playback feature and embed drawings on your blog.
5. Drawball
Drawball is a canvas...but with thousands of people drawing on all different sections of it. Users can draw anything, so long as they have ink (you get more ink by waiting). But users can also erase other drawings and add on to existing ones.
There are some fantastic works of art on Drawball as well, which DrawBall makes sure to protect so others can't doodle over them. eHow has a great article on how to get started.