Unleash your creativity with ArtClash, a unique platform designed to inspire daily practice in drawing, sketching, and cartooning. Unlike Sketchbook, Photoshop, Procreate, or Infinite Painter, ArtClash stands out by fostering a community of artists who engage in friendly competition and encouragement.
Currently in early access, ArtClash is a work in progress with more exciting features on the horizon. Dive into the first game now and enjoy a range of creative tools at your fingertips. Whether you choose to free draw or tackle specific topics with optional constraints like time limits, color restrictions, or canvas size, you'll earn points when others correctly guess your creations.
As a one-man project created for the developer's wife and himself, ArtClash aims to motivate not just them but also a broader community to practice art every day.
Current Features:
- Paint: Sketch, paint, and blend to bring your ideas to life.
- Import Images: Use images as references or paint over them to enhance your work.
- Topics and Constraints: Select topics ranging from single words to complex combinations and apply constraints for extra challenge and points.
- Difficulty Levels: Choose from 6 levels of difficulty, from simple to advanced.
- Constraints: Opt for time limits, color limits, or specific canvas sizes to boost your score.
- Free Draw and Share: Unleash your creativity without limits and share your masterpieces with others.
- NSFW Flag: Control what content you view by filtering out images marked as NSFW.
Early Access Issues/Bugs:
- Ugly UI: The current Unity UI is being replaced with XAML for better responsiveness and aesthetics.
- Performance on Large Canvases: Keep canvases under 1024x1024 on lower-end devices due to slowdowns with the GPU-accelerated brush engine. Future updates will address this.
Upcoming Features:
- More Games: Starting with a "telephone" game using drawings.
- Enhanced Social Features: Including avatar changes, comments, friend requests, and following other users.
- Improved UI and Brush Engine: Addressing current bugs and enhancing performance.
- Advanced Tools: Marquee selection and transform tools for more precise editing.
- Expanded Brush Options: More brushes and the ability for users to add and share their own.
- Enhanced Layer System: Including features like locking transparent pixels and masking.
- Developer Communication: A system for users to provide feedback, report bugs, and vote on future features.
- Moderators: Community members can be promoted to help moderate content and resolve issues.
- User-Submitted Content: Users can submit topics and constraints for inclusion after moderation.
- Future Expansion: Plans for full image editing, animation, scripting, and game/storyboard prototyping.
While ArtClash may not yet be a full image editing suite due to performance issues with large textures and the absence of comprehensive editing features, it is currently optimized for social competition and artistic encouragement. Stay tuned for more updates and enhancements as ArtClash continues to evolve.
