Paint chat

Paint chats are online chat rooms that allow its participants to draw together in real-time while they chat. The chat box is usually at the bottom, with the drawing area on top. Paint chats generally attract the same demographics as Oekakis. Anime characters are a popular subject.

Applications

criblink

Scriblink (http://www.scriblink.com/) is an online whiteboard that allows users to collaborate in real-time. The site is built using Java and requires no registration. Logging onto the site automatically connects users to their own private, fully featured whiteboard that has an in-screen chat, free VoIP conferencing, image uploading, and more. Scriblink also offers users the ability to fully customize the board and place it within their sites.

Groupboard

Groupboard is based on a multi-user drawing/chat java applet that was developed for theEtchinghill Studios website in March 1997. The applet was further developed so that multiple whiteboard and chat sessions could be hosted on the same server, and in 1998 it was released as http://www.Groupboard.com. Since then over 90,000 people have set up their own Groupboard.

PaintChatApp

PaintChatApp (or just Paintchat) is a prevalent paint chat application on the Internet. Paintchat is closed-source freeware, and consists of a Java server application and a Java client applet. It was originally developed in 2000 by Japanese programmer Shi-chan (http://shichan.jp), last version released in 2003, and has enjoyed significant popularity.

openCanvas

Some users desire drawing sessions of a more intimate nature. A popular software application for this is openCanvas, whose old freeware versions featured network support. One user will host the session. openCanvas accepts up to 3 other users via incoming TCP connections. None of these features exist in openCanvas 2.x and later. Copies of "oC11b72.exe" (openCanvas 1.1b72) remain in wide circulation on the Internet because of this.

Twiddla

Twiddla (http://www.twiddla.com/) is a browser based paint chat tool with voice support (requires Java) and a focus towards hosting web meetings. It has been live since April 2007.

DrawChat

DrawChat (http://www.ratemydrawings.com/chat/) is part of the RateMyDrawings community that allows people to draw and chat at the same time using a Flash based drawing tool

iSketch

iSketch is a web based competitive drawing game. [http://www.isketch.net/]

PictoChat

Nintendo's PictoChat software, built into Nintendo DS firmware, operates over a local-area wireless network.It does not connect to the Internet.

PolyPaint

PolyPaint [http://smart-idiot.no-ip.com/polypaint/] is a collaborative art program. All images drawn in the program are automatically stored in an online archive when the image is reset. The source code to the client is available from the website.

Sketcher

[http://sketcher.sourceforge.net/ Sketcher] is a paintchat application like PaintchatApp and is used by [http://artgrounds.com/ ArtGrounds] (its official home) and the furry art-archive [http://www.artspots.com/ ArtSpots] .