Scribbr is a tiny web app for drawing and posting to twitter. With jQuery, the user can control the color, size, opacity of the cursor to draw on the canvas element 320 x 320 in size.
Last summer, I had the opportunity to work with Eisner Award winning cartoonist Scott Kurtz of PVP. During one conversation we had, he came up with a punch-line to what we were talking about. I don’t remember what the subject was, but the punch-line involved a mock editorial cartoon. He grabbed a 2″ x 2″ sticky note pad and drew the cartoon. We had a laugh.
This would never happen online. At least, not in any convenient, simple, method that I was aware of.
Right now, it’s very crude. The controls are, admittedly, non-intuitive. There is no ‘Undo’ other than clearing the canvas and starting over. It doesn’t support older browsers either.
I’m actually quite okay with that last part. This site was immensely fun to build. Getting it to work on IE6 would have taken away from that. Right now, I know that it works on FireFox 3.0, Safari 4.0b (or WebKit nightly build), and Google Chrome 2.0.