What's new

Nov 15

Shapes and checker brush

Draw lines, boxes and circles with the Shape tool. Checker tips paint every other pixel, so two colors mix into a new shade.

Try shapes

Also this week

Paint with the keyboard

Arrow keys move a one-pixel cursor. Enter paints under it, and holding it while you move draws a line.

Watch others paint live

Turn on Others’ drafts in Layers to see what people are painting before they save.

Layers

Hide the grid or the canvas, or trace a reference image. The eyedropper is gone: tell us in chat if you miss it.

Earlier

Pinch and pan on a trackpad

On a laptop, pinch the trackpad over the canvas to zoom around your cursor, and drag two fingers to move around in any direction. The zoom buttons now zoom from the middle of the view.

Show off your favorite WIPs

Star WIPs in Works In Progress and your latest five appear on your profile, next to your favorite canvases. Each one says who painted it, so gifts and your own work can sit together.

Pick your WIPs
Explain your theme idea

When you suggest a theme, add a description and an image to show what people should paint. If your theme wins, it’s posted in that day’s chat as you.

Suggest a theme
Find your next favorite canvas

Explore visually similar artwork from any finished canvas or animation page.

Explore canvases
A clearer view of your art

Minting, canvases, animations, and subscriptions now share a simpler layout. You can also pay for subscriptions with ETH from another supported network.

Explore collecting
Pre-mint while you paint

Choose how many copies of today’s finished artwork to pre-mint right from the paint page, with 5% off. It arrives in your wallet after the canvas locks.

Open the canvas
Mint with ETH on Robinhood Chain

You can now pay from Robinhood Chain when minting the daily artwork.

Mint today's artwork
Bucket fill tool, finally!

Use the new Bucket Fill tool to color a connected area in your draft at once.

Try Bucket Fill
Save only changed pixels

Turn on Pixel saver in the save dialog to skip pixels that already match the current canvas.

Baseprite live cursors

If you are using Aseprite, update Baseprite plugin to the latest version to get live cursors.

Update Baseprite
GIF emoji are here

Create, browse, and use community-made animated emoji in BasePaint chat.

Browse emoji
Fixed chat

For some people, the chat was not updating properly. This is now fixed.

Profile activity is interactive

Open canvases and transactions directly from recent activity on your profile.

View your profile