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so it's like MS paint, except worse?

also, anyone can look through saved drawings by incrementing the drawing's ID in the URL. i think this was scrich's first penis drawing: http://scri.ch/0b

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why am I not surprised.

in 2007 i was working on "paintbrush.es" which was basically this. (i was too cheap to spring for "dra.ws" which costs $1k and may still be available). i thought that by enabling people to do derivative drawing that it would totally revolutionize art, kill deviantart, etc. super creativity! ultimately it was a total failure and all i got were a bunch of penis drawings. i mean art is primal but i wasn't expecting the venus of willendorf

That's vaguely related to what Canv.as is doing, except that people draw on top of images borrowed from other sources.

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