Exploring Wigglypaint

Wigglypaint is a cute little art tool that runs in-browser and allows you to make adorable animated drawings, like so:

Who is this?

I've seen it floating around the internet for a while, notably used by veryluckyclover, who makes endless charming, tiny drawings that I enjoy, and there's something so irresistable and distinctive about the look. Those lovely wobbly lines delight me.

I've long been a fan of 'boiling' - Roobarb and Custard was such a great stylistic influence, along with many 1970s-1990s animated series that incorporated similar styles and were everywhere when I was growing up, and so it's really satisfying to make these wiggling gifs without having to draw individual frames. They just wiggle naturally. Good.

I've also been really admiring Svdpony's Flipnote Studio 3D drawings, which have some lovely dithering and incorporation of small elements of animation, and seeing these reminded me how much I love Flipnote Studio 3D - although drawing on a 3DS cramps my hand pretty quickly.

So I thought, hmm, I should locate some more interesting drawings tools like this. Wigglypaint seems popular - I've seen a good amount of reels and shorts and TikToks about it - but what else is out there? What other strange and beautiful art tools await?

I like Wigglypaint quite a bit - the default colour palettes are nice, the small gifs it exports are perfect, and I love its bouncy noises. It is a bit restrictive - those exports are very small, but I like the ways it limits you. It is, unfortunately, horrible to use on an iPad or phone. Strangely, the easiest thing for me to do is use my trackpad, which does feel warped and wrong to say - but using it feels good and right.

What can I say? Wigglypaint rocks. More wiggly paintings incoming.