skrbl Art

Here's a picture I saw on Myspace describing the scene from the snickers jingle -

"Happy peanuts soar..
Over chocolate covered mountaintops and waterfalls of caramel..
prancing nougat in the middle,
sings a song of satisfaction tooooo the wooooooorld."



Good fun, a literal rendition of the words complete with happy flying peanuts, a lump of nougat and 'The World' sitting coyly at the side listening. Here it is in all its full size technicolor glory.

Hows that for a new skrbl use case!!! Me likes.

So easy even a 4 year old can skrbl

My niece is the youngest skrbl user I know of.
Basically she likes sitting in front of the computer drawing 'pictures'. Happy with her creations and eager to show off 'artwork'.
Seeing her in action one day I had a brilliant idea, "If she thinks this is cool, how amazed will she be when I skrbl on her drawings over the web?" I thought I'd impress her by magically changing her drawing right in front of her eyes.

sigh!!!

Skipping over the unnecessary details (it is deflating to admit defeat to a 4 year old), here is the moral of the story.

Life lesson - never mess with an artist's work (no matter how gentle, young, small and defenceless the artist seems).

Drawing lines...

We rolled out freehand drawing yesterday.
*fireworks and applause*
We had planned to release drawing in January so it is some 5 days later than expected, sorry folks, and thanks for being so understanding.

So in addition to text, you can also draw freehand on skrbl, whiteboarding/brainstorming/just plain doodling suddenly became more fun. We've been spending a lot of time at the office creating 'skrbl art'. This is all supposed to be us 'testing' but it feels too much fun to be work. I have a widescreen tablet and am 'hard at work' drawing directly on the screen with a stylus.

What we have now is plain simple freehand line drawing, use the pen tool to draw lines of different colors.
Use the pointer tool to select drawn lines.
Use the (right click) context menu to delete lines.

Drawing became so much fun that our skrbl boards became very cluttered very quickly and we had to add a 'Erase all' button. The 'erase' button is available from your 'My skrbls' page and you use it to clear the entire whiteboard - Notes as well as drawings.

The last month has been hectic, we have been adding features into skrbl while the rest of the site (FAQ etc) did not keep up. We have one more big feature to be launched next week and then we will get the site up to date, promise.

Meanwhile keep skrbling, let us know what you think and as always thanks.