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What do you want to draw?

Type anything, or drop in a photo. You'll be drawing in about ten seconds.

What do you want to draw?

Photo

Draw it

Free. No account. No ads.

Everything

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Pick a level to see where to start, or just draw something.

Butterfly

Egg

Fish

Heart

House

Ice Cream Cone

Ladybug

Angelfish

Bottle

Bucket

Crow

Mushroom

Pear

Watermelon

Bison

Crocodile

Eagle

Lips

Octopus

Praying Mantis

Skull

Turkey

Face

Hand

Unicorn

This is what happens next

The lesson and the canvas are the same page. The next line is already ghosted on it - trace it, or ignore it and draw your own.

How to Draw a Butterfly

Draw here

The drawing canvas needs JavaScript. If you'd rather work on paper, every lesson has a printable step sheet.

Draw a light vertical line down the middle of the page.

Next step

Open the full lesson →

How it goes

Pick a thing

Type it, or photograph it. Deciding what to draw is the step that stops most people, so we never leave you facing a blank page.

Draw it on the page

The next line sits ghosted under your own. Follow it, ignore it, or turn it off - there is no wrong way and nothing to pass.

Get one thing to fix

Not five. One - the one that would help most, measured from your actual strokes, with a sixty-second drill that fixes it.

Come back and see it move

Your week-one fox next to your week-six fox. Being able to see that you are improving is the only thing that really keeps anyone drawing.

Why this one is different

Every other site hands you ten pictures of the steps and hopes. It has no idea whether you drew anything, and mostly you didn't - that's the honest truth about how tutorials go. Here the canvas is on the same page as the lesson, so drawing is the easy thing to do rather than the thing you'll do later.

Nothing here blocks you. There's no test to pass before the next lesson, no 250 boxes to grind through, and every lesson has a way to finish early and still end up with a finished drawing. Sixty seconds counts as a day.

Most people learning to draw have a pencil, some paper and a phone - not a graphics tablet. Photograph what you drew and it goes through exactly the same process as anything drawn on screen. We straighten and clean up the photo for you.

We never generate art for you, and your drawings never train anything. The point is that you get better, and that cannot be outsourced.

Start drawing

Questions people ask

Is it really free?<br>Yes, and there are no ads either. Every lesson, the canvas, the practice drills and the feedback are free with no account. Nothing you can use today gets taken away later.

Do I need an account?<br>No. You can draw, finish, and get feedback without one. An account only exists so your drawings and your progress follow you to another device - and anything you drew before signing up comes with you.

I genuinely cannot draw. Is this for me?<br>That is exactly who it is for. Level 1 assumes you have not drawn since school. The shapes are ones you can already make, and every lesson has a button to finish early and still end up with a complete drawing.

Do I need a drawing tablet?<br>No. A mouse, a trackpad or a finger all work. So does a pencil and paper - photograph what you drew and it goes through exactly the same process as anything drawn on screen.

How old do you have to be?<br>There is no age setting. Difficulty adapts to what you can actually do, which is more accurate than age anyway - plenty of adults are complete beginners, and that is our core user.

Does the AI draw it for me?<br>Never. We measure your strokes and tell you one thing to work on. Nothing is generated, nothing is drawn for you, and your drawings never train any model. The point is that you get better, and that cannot be outsourced.

What does uploading a photo actually do?<br>It breaks your photo into shapes of light and dark and hands them back biggest-first, as a step-by-step tutorial - which is how artists block a drawing in. It is not cartoon line art, and it works best on a photo with a clear subject and decent light.

How long does it take to get better?<br>Ten minutes a day beats an afternoon at the weekend - motor skills consolidate between sessions rather than during them. Most people can see a difference in their own drawings within a couple of weeks, and the progress page puts your early attempts next to your recent ones so you can check rather than guess.

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