Drawing Tools

Drawing Tools:
Google Sketchup		A 3D software tool that combines a tool-set with an intelligent drawing system. Enables to place models using real-world coordinates. Create, modify and share 3D models.
Wordle		Generate “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.	example
Tagul		A web service that enables you to create gorgeous tag clouds. The words can be interactive - rollover effects, link to google search. Can use text or url link to make the tags. 20 clouds per user allowed.
Tagxedo		Turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
WordItOut		Word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings. Free to use and no sign up required. Create from sentences, whole documents, web addresses or tables. Display or remove words and tweak their importance with ease. Choose your own colours, fonts and sizes. Easily embed them on your own website (as big or small as you want)
Imagination Cubed		Drawing board, text and stamps. Share by email. No embed code that I could find.	Training Video
Floor planner		Create and share interactive floorplans
Comic Sketch		Draw your own comics. Embed them into any webpage.
Comicbrush		Mix stock artwork from our fun collection of comic backgrounds, characters and props with photos of your friends, neighborhood or college.You can add speech balloons, text, your own artwork and more, before publishing.
Comic Master		Create your own comics, add captions, dialogue, backgrounds, characters and props.
Sketchfu		Create a drawing, save and play back as a movie of the drawing being created. Embed into any webpage.
Sketchcast		Record a sketch with or without voice audio. Embed sketch player into any webpage or point people to your sketch channel.	example Training Video
Mugtug		Sketch or draw.
Quikmaps		Draw a route or label directly on Google Maps. Embed into any webpage.
Textorizor		Make pictures from words. Select the image url from flickr and type in the key words. Change the settings to suit image size and strokes.	example
Tux Paint		Drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.
Drawing For Children		Drawing program for young children, draw with many different pens, put stamps on your drawings, create all sort of text effects, and much more. Also provides lots of fun to older kids. PC only.
Artpad	[[image:artpad.art.com:artpad:painter.png width="134" height="64"]]	Drawing pad with paint and text. Choose a frame, save and play back as a movie of the drawing being created. I cannot find any way of embedding.
LiveBrush		Free download. Easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gesture by combining simple motion controls with brush styles. Toss graphics around the screen or elegantly swing the brush around your cursor.
FlockDraw		Realtime collaborative drawing tool. Paint a simple masterpiece, make a point visually. Collaborate on a project and share with the world or a friend.
Cacoo		A user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts.
Yandex	[[image:cards.yandex.ru:kraski.xml.png width="81" height="54" align="center"]]	Drawing pad with paint and text.
Sumopaint		Offers professional and easy to use tools for creating and editing images within a browser. Layer support.
GoAnimate		Create your very own animated stories online. Share them with all your friends	example
Cartoonster		Teaches you how to draw and animate cartoons online.
Doink		Create and share custom animations. Collaborate with others by using and sharing props.
Aniboom	[[image:aniboom.com:ShapeshifterAnimachine.aspx.png width="147" height="58"]]	Create frame by frame animations using only 4 geometric shapes. Or create animation using your webcam and embed as a widget.
Chogger		Create your own cartoon strip or comic. Use your own drawings from scratch or upload your own photos or drawings.
EtchaSketch		Digital version of the Sketchograph. Sketch pictures using vertical, horizontal and diagonal line.	example
Colourlovers		A resource that monitors and influences color trends. A place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.
Thisissand		Make sand pictures. Pixels on screen change to sand. Change colours and create.	example
Bonomo		Creative art work	example
PsykoPaint		A photo painting tool which uses the colors of an image to paint creative works of art
SculptyPaint	[[image:xs4all.nl:~elout:sculptpaint:.png width="117" height="57"]]	A low polygon 3D creation tool original written for creating sculpts; 3D low polygon models for SecondLife. But currently it can also export to .obj files that can be read in Blender, wings3D etc.
Kerpoof		Make a picture, movie, drawing, card or story. Not a free site for public users, but Teacher accounts are free and can add class as users for free. Techers join up here
Idee		Find flickr pictures by selecting a colour.
Pixlr		Free online image and drawing editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter.
Pictaps		Draw your person, let it come to life with preset animation.
Scribbler	[[image:zefrank.com:scribbler:.png]]	Create spectacular line sketches from a simple drawing.	example
Odosketch		Flash drawing application first launched in August of 2006 for an Adobe Design Gallery feature on Odopod.
SimpleDiagrams		A small desktop application with enough functionality to describe a thought or capture a process. Drag, drop and size symbols from libraries. Add photos and post-notes. Save diagrams on your computer or export to PNG
Digital Drawn	[[image:digitaldrawn.nl:drawing:online.htm.png width="109" height="75"]]	Design and draw your own e-card
Pencil		An animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.
Voice Drawing		Voice drawing - use inbuilt mic to draw a picture, low volume will turn the line counter-clockwise, medium volume will draw a straight line, high volume will turn the line clockwise.
Text Tools:
Cool Text		Free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly
Typogenerator		Turns a piece of text into a piece of art	example
Yourfonts		Online font generation service that allows you to create your own fonts within a couple of minutes. Your own handwriting turned into your own font. Use your fonts on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Personalize your digital scrapbook pages. Make your own "family handwriting history. Make as many fonts as you like. NOTE - as from 21 April, 2009 downloads will require a payment.
FontCapture		Create a font from your very own handwriting. There's no software to download and install, all you need is a printer and a scanner.
Glitter Text Live		Glitter text generator to embed into any webpage
Fontstruct		Build, share and download your own fonts.
Textanim		Generate an animated text picture (gif) with texture in 10 seconds.
3D Animated Text		1,000 pages of free, high-quality animated text to make your web site or blog more interesting. And you'll find links to thousands of pages of free animations.
Wondersay		Generate stylish animations from plain text. Take the original text (quotes, tweets, custom sentences) and make it more fun by adding style and transforming it. Sharing is easy, and you can embed them on your site.
Glowtxt		Glowing text generator
FlashVortex		Create menus, buttons, banners for free. No sign up, no software to install, no design skill required.
Avatar Maker
Doppel Me		Create a cool graphical likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people for use as an avatar in forums, instant messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else on the web.
Gizmoz		Express yourself with a lifelike 3D talking head, created from your own picture!
Portrait Illusion Maker		Free character icon and avatar maker
FaceYourManga		Create your Avatar. Express yourself through your image and share it whoever you want.
Build Your WILD Self		Design your human self and then add your animal parts.
Kiwee		Free character and avatar maker. Also winks, backgrounds and emoticons.
TizMe		Create virtual images of yourself, your family, and your friends. Integrated support for community sites, instant messengers, and compatible mobile phones.
My Avatar Editor		Ceate and edit personalized avatar characters compatible with Mii™ characters found on the Nintendo® Wii™
PrimarySchoolICT		Avatars can be downloaded, edited (using My Avatar Editor) and cropped.
Alpoy		Create an avatar from your own photo
Flashface		Create an avatar using parts of a face
MadMen Yourself		MadMen avatars from the movie
ReasonablyClever		Make yourself into a Lego avatar
Gravatar		A globally recognised avatar. An image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog.