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Release your imagination and draw freely with DRAW SVG

DRAW SVG is a free online application for creating drawings.

  • Designed for all content publishers, info graphic designers and developers.
  • Edit your drawings with a powerful SVG editor.
  • Browse, publish, share and comment drawings with an original graphic social network.
  • Create memes with your favorite pictures and photos.
  • Turn your photos into Impressionist drawings with Photo to drawing Tool.
  • Discover the use of the editor with the interactive learning Showcases Tool.
  • Convert your SVG drawings to PNG images for publication.
  • Encode your images (svg, png, jpeg) in base 64 for insertion into your HTML pages.
  • Pure HTML5 and CSS styles
  • Optimized for Chrome & FireFox, compatible with Edge, Safari and Opera.
  • Touch device compatible.
  • Integrate DRAW SVG editor in your website with developers integration API
  • Customize the UI with your own application.

Latest news

Version 8-0on April 2020

Version 7-9on March 2020

Version 7-8on February 2020

Version 7-7on January 2020

  • New tool to generate a custom shapes catalog and import it into drawsvg editor.

Version 7-6on December 2019

See release notes
DRAW SVG Tool Gallery
Edit your drawings Publish, share and comment your drawings Create memes for your favorite photos Turn your photos into drawings Learn editor use with its interactive Tool Convert your SVG drawings to PNG images Encode images in base 64 Generate custom shapes catalog
Introduction to DRAW SVG Tools

DRAW SVG tools are online tools totally free to use.
Contribute to the community by making comments, suggesting features and publishing your drawings with Board tool.

SVG editor

draw

Edit your drawings.

Draw

Drawing Board

board

Browse, publish, share and comment drawings.

Browse drawings

Meme maker

Meme maker

Create memes for your favorite photos.

Create memes

Photo to drawing

Photo to SVG

Turn your photos into artistic drawings.

Have fun

Showcases

showcases

Learn to use the editor.

Learn how to

SVG to PNG converter

SVG to PNG

Convert your SVG files in PNG images.

Convert

Encode Image

Encode image

Encode images in base64 for HTML inline insert.

Encode

Custom shape catalog

Custom shape catalog

Generate a drawsvg custom shape catalog.

Generate

Introduction to developer Tools

DRAW SVG developer tools are free software released under the GNU LGPL.
Request an API Key to activate your DRAW SVG integration, and download Edrawsvg distribution.

JsChannel integration API

Insert DRAW SVG editor in your website with the JsChannel API.

Hosting Edrawsvg

Edrawsvg

Edrawsvg is a distribution of DRAW SVG editor, intended to developpers to be embedded into their websites.

Custom Application

Develop your own DRAW SVG editor custom app with HTML, CSS and javascript.

DRAW SVG editor key features

Discover DRAW SVG editor main features.

Draw objects

  • Basic elements (path, rectangle, circle, ellipse, line, polyline, polygon)
  • Bezier curves (cubic, quadratic, arcs, smoothed)
  • Shapes, Emoji and Font Awesome icons
  • Straight and curved text
  • Images and Google Maps
  • Ready-made shapes (a lot of icons, arrows, flowcharts..)
  • Media controls (YouTube, video, audio, rich text)
  • Multi-language text
  • Document composition with svg included

Modify objects

  • Click an object, select the closest point clicked or all those included in a rectangle
  • Manage layers, change the order of objects, align edges
  • Moving the control points of the geometry of an object
  • Transform objects
  • Full interactive editing text with the mouse
  • Browse map location
  • Download and encode PNG into image objects
  • Import svg files into included svg objects

Rendering objects

  • Copying the style of an object on another
  • WYSIWYG editing style properties
  • CSS styles management
  • Color chooser (RGB, HSV, palette)
  • Stroke style (color, scaling, width, dash, opacity, gradient, pattern, cap, join)
  • Fill style (color, opacity, gradient. pattern, rule)
  • Text style (family, size, font-style,weight, anchor, decoration)
  • Marker style (start, mid, end)
  • Customize gradients, filters, patterns and markers

Interactive editing tools

Integration in a web application

  • Use DRAW-SVG as an integrated drawing tool within your web site
  • Edit and save your svg documents
  • Integration by API based on mozilla jsSchannel
  • Customize UI with your own application using HTML, CSS and javascript
  • See jsChannel demo,  custom app,  and dev guide

Manage your drawing files

  • Save and load SVG files on your computer
  • Load images as SVS files
  • Load documents from the openclipart gallery (currently off)
  • Conversion into PNG images
  • Publish onBoard tool

Try DRAW SVG editor

DRAW SVG showcases tutorials

Learning the use of drawsvg is very fast and easy with the Showcases tool.
This is a learning tool that allows to play DRAW SVG feature discovery animations.
This tool reproduces the recorded mouse and keyboard events of a DRAW SVG usage sequence on its interface.

Draw elements

Insert media

Style elements

Manage documents

Edit elements

Layers

Learn how to use DRAW SVG editor

Drawing Board tool
Drawing Board

Browse drawings

An original graphic social network

Is a social network that manages signed topics composed of a drawing and a description classified by keyword and emojis.
Topics can be commented and followed by answers to build threads.

  • Search latest topics by tags, keywords and emojis.
  • Browse selection.
  • Upload topics drawing.
  • Sign In with a google account to add, comment or reply topics.
  • To add a topic, select the topic's drawing creation mode from 4 different (from an image file, from a svg file, new meme, start new svg), then set the description and its classification by tags and emojis.
  • Reply to a topic by completing its drawing with the editor of DRAWSVG or by a new drawing.
  • Edit your topics, drawings and descriptions.
Meme maker tool
Encode image

Create memes

Creating a meme is very easy

  • Choose an image or a photo.
  • Define the meme size.
  • The meme can have up to three captions (top, center,bottom).
  • Select a caption, enter its text.
  • Adjust the text style.
  • Background style and advanced properties (stroke color and filter).
  • Then save the meme in SVG or PNG format.
  • Finaly you can edit the drawing with the editor of DRAWSVG.
Generating SVG files, convert photo to drawing, some samples

Generating a drawing from a photo using the tool is very easy.
It is achieved by reducing the dimensions of the photo and its number of colors.
Then by extraction of the contours of the colors with filtering and smoothing of the vertices.

Try photo to drawing tool

Contact

About the author

Joseph LIARD is the owner of DRAW SVG.

Send an email to the author Join the DRAW SVG User Forum

Partners

Stephen McLaughlin and Bart Butenaers, contributors to NODE-RED  (the flow-based development tool for visual programming).

Dave GARDINER