#opencanvas

Thrax drawing done in Open Canvas 6 and then added textures in Photoshop.

This is my first few drawings on it, I was testing it these past couple of days, as well as this drawing app called opencanvas I got for free (I think?) with it, lmao I'm still figuring it out

My siblings tried it out too lol

the fun thing about Ye Olde OpenCanvas1.1 is that its heyday coincided with oekaki boards, so it has the cool function where I can ask it to 'replay' my process because that kind of thing was en vogue or whatever

Omg omg I downloaded the old 1.1 version of OpenCanvas and it’s so nostalgic!!!  The brush panel in the bottom right resurfaced such STRONG memories lmao. 😆😭😭

This (and oekaki boards) were how I first learned how to digital art!!!!

Here is where it can downloaded: http://wistinga.online.fr/opencanvas/

And here is a tutorial (since the brush and layer options are super weird compared to modern software), hosted on Angelfire for maximum nostalgia: https://www.angelfire.com/anime/Jessjessica/oc/oc.html

OpenCanvas was very popular among anime artists of the 90s/00s because it was very close to a downloadable version of an oekaki board (which was used in your browser).

Oekaki was drawn on a webpage that looked like this:

It only allowed two layers and there were very few tools, but I always liked the kind of pastel default color palette.  And you couldn’t save your progress; when you done you basically just clicked “done” and your finished work was published to the BBS (bulletin board system) where it was hosted.  Sometimes people even left comments!