ArtClash - Paint Draw & Sketch

Unleash your creativity with ArtClash, the innovative platform designed to inspire daily drawing, sketching, and cartooning. Unlike Sketchbook, Photoshop, Procreate, or Infinite Painter, ArtClash stands out as a unique tool tailored to encourage artistic practice and community engagement. As a work in progress, with the first game already completed, ArtClash promises an exciting future with more features on the horizon.

ArtClash is a labor of love, crafted by a single developer with the aim of fostering daily practice for both the creator and his wife, as well as for others who share a passion for art. Dive into the current features and start creating today:

• Paint: Enjoy the freedom to sketch, paint, and blend your way to stunning artworks.
• Import Images: Use images as references or enhance them with your own touch.
• Interactive Challenges: Select from a variety of topics and optional constraints such as time limits, color restrictions, or canvas size. Earn points as others guess your creations correctly.
• Difficulty Levels: Choose from six levels of challenge, ranging from single-word prompts to complex sets of up to five words including nouns, verbs, places, and time periods.
• Constraints for Extra Points: Opt for time, color, or canvas size challenges to boost your score.
• Free Drawing: Unleash your imagination with free drawing mode and share your masterpieces with the community.
• NSFW Filter: Toggle the NSFW flag to view or avoid mature content shared by others.

As ArtClash is in early access, some issues and bugs are being addressed:

• UI Challenges: The current Unity UI is slated for replacement with XAML for a more responsive and visually appealing interface.
• Performance on Large Canvases: For optimal performance on lower-end devices, keep canvases under 1024x1024. The GPU-accelerated brush engine may slow down with larger canvases and small brushes. Future updates will focus on enhancing performance across different engines.

Exciting features are in the pipeline, promising to enrich your ArtClash experience:

• New Games: Look forward to engaging games like "telephone" with drawings.
• Enhanced Social Features: Customize avatars, comment on projects, make friends, and follow other artists.
• Improved UI and Brush Engine: Addressing the current bugs for a smoother and faster experience.
• Advanced Tools: Marquee selection and transform tools to refine your artworks.
• Expanded Brush Library: More brush options and the ability to share custom brushes within the community.
• Enhanced Layer System: Future updates will include locking transparent pixels, masking, and more advanced layer management.
• Developer Communication: A feedback system to request features, report bugs, and vote on upcoming changes.
• Moderation System: Community moderators to review flagged content and maintain a safe environment.
• User-Generated Content: Submit your own topics and constraints for inclusion after moderation.
• Future Expansions: Full image editing, animation capabilities, scripting, and game/storyboard prototyping on the roadmap.

While ArtClash is not yet a comprehensive image editing suite due to performance issues with large textures and limited editing features, it is optimized for social competition and artistic encouragement. Join the ArtClash community today and start your creative journey!