Online Sketchpad — Free Drawing Pad
A free online sketchpad with pencil, watercolor, oil, crayon, airbrush and calligraphy brushes, pen pressure, layers and autosave. Draw in your browser with no signup.
🔒 Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploadedA drawing pad that is always ready
Open this page and you have a clean sheet and a soft natural pencil ready to go. It is a quick place to sketch an idea, practise drawing, doodle during a call, plan a layout, or let children paint without installing an app. The canvas works with a mouse, a touch screen or a stylus, and pen pressure is supported, so lines taper naturally when you press lightly. Zoom with Ctrl and the mouse wheel or a two-finger pinch, and hold Space to move around the page.
The Brushes menu offers nine different media. Natural pencil gives grainy graphite lines for sketches, crayon produces a waxy texture, oil lays down bristly streaks, and watercolor builds soft, translucent washes that deepen where strokes overlap. The airbrush keeps spraying while you hold the button, the marker gives flat, see-through color, and the two calligraphy pens create thick-and-thin lettering. Pick any color from the palette or design your own with Edit colors.
Layers for cleaner artwork
Professional illustrators separate their work into layers, and you can too. Keep a rough sketch on one layer, draw clean line art on a new layer above it, and paint colors on a layer below. Lower the opacity of the sketch so it acts as a guide, then hide it when you are finished. Layers can be duplicated, renamed, reordered and merged at any time.
Your sketches stay yours
The sketchpad runs entirely in your browser. Drawings are never uploaded, and the automatic backup lives only in your browser's storage on this device. Save a PNG to share your sketch, or save a project file to continue with every layer intact later. There are no accounts, ads inside the canvas or watermarks.
How to use
- Choose a brushOpen the Brushes menu and pick natural pencil, watercolor, oil, crayon, airbrush, marker or a calligraphy pen.
- Sketch freelyDraw with a mouse, touch screen or pen. Stylus pressure changes the line width. Pinch or Ctrl+wheel to zoom and hold Space to pan.
- Save or keep workingSave a PNG or a layered project file. Your sketch is also autosaved in the browser so you can come back later.