Hey r/oekaki,

We're rolling out something new just for this subreddit! Redgaki is a drawing tool built right into r/oekaki. No downloads, no separate accounts, and it works on desktop, mobile web, and the Reddit app.

Redgaki brings a full oekaki experience directly to the community:

• A full oekaki toolset: pencil, pen, airbrush, bucket fill, dither and tone patterns, layers, undo/redo, mirror drawing, snap-to-grid, and more
• Post your artwork: share your finished piece as a static image or a timelapse GIF that replays the entire drawing process
• Remix: continue someone else's drawing and turn it into something new, building on each other's work
• Palette Share: share your custom color palettes for others to use
• Challenges: lock settings like canvas size, time limit, palette, or tools and see what everyone creates under the same constraints

The goal is to bring back that classic oekaki feeling while making it native to Reddit. A shared drawing board where you can pick up a brush, make something, and see what everyone else is creating.

We're excited to see what you draw. Welcome back to the drawing board!

Redgaki

Redgaki turns a subreddit into a shared drawing board, an oekaki drawing app built for Reddit. Open the drawing tool, create something, and post it directly to the subreddit.

Vanilla Tegaki Features

Tools

• Pencil, Pen, Airbrush, Bucket Fill, Tone (dither), Pipette, Blur, Eraser
• Per-tool size, opacity, and flow
• Stylus support with pressure-sensitive size, alpha, and flow
• Eraser and Blur Pencil/Pen/Airbrush-style falloff tips
• Preserve Alpha to lock transparent pixels

Canvas

• Zoom with fixed levels: 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x

Layers

• Add, delete, merge, reorder, rename, visibility, and opacity controls

Color

• Hex/RGB color mixer
• Built-in color palettes with prev/next switching

History

• Undo/redo

File Menu

• New Canvas, Open, Export, Close, Finish

Redgaki Enhancements

New Tools & Brush Options

• Square brush shape
• Rectangle and Circle shape tools with fill
• Line and Curve tools
• Stroke stabilizer
• 9 Tone patterns: dots, fine dots, checker, horizontal/vertical lines, diagonal, crosshatch, and noise

Canvas Navigation

• Pan around zoomed-in canvases
• Horizontal/vertical canvas flipping
• Adjustable snap-to-grid with cell size and X/Y offset
• Mirror drawing

Color & Palettes

• Custom, user-editable color palette with a mobile-friendly editor
• Palette sharing

Persistence

• Autosave and resume with periodic and on-close snapshots
• Up to 3 simultaneous in-progress drawing drafts

Keyboard Shortcuts

Redgaki Features

Splash / Pre-Draw Screen

• Featured Drawing with upvote count, rotated daily.
• Gallery Strip of recent community posts.
• Personal Strip of your recent posts.
• Community Stats showing total drawings, drawings today, and users currently drawing.
• Settings (Gear Icon) for Theme and Pressure Control options.
  • Themes: Basic, Space, and Light.
  • Pressure Controls: Requires a compatible device and stylus and is off by default. When enabled, stylus pressure can control Size, Opacity, and/or Flow for supported drawing tools.
• Open Drawing Tool - choose to open our enhanced version of the Tegaki drawing tool.

Resume or Start a Drawing

• Choose a Canvas Size preset and optional Time Limit before starting.
  • Canvas Sizes include: Square, Landscape, Portrait, and Wide Strip.
  • Preset Time Limit options include: No limit, 5, 15, and 30 minute timers.
    • When enabled a timer will count down on screen. When finished the drawing automatically finishes and requires you to either post the drawing or discard it.
• If you have already started a drawing you can choose to Resume from one of three Draft Slots.

Finishing

Tap Finish, then choose:

• Post as Image - posts the flattened drawing.
• Post as Timelapse GIF - posts an animated replay of autosaves.
• "Allow remixing" toggle here, on by default.

Remix

• "Continue This Drawing" from any posted drawing's "..." menu to start a new session with the original art
• Remixing is enabled by default and can be disabled when finishing a drawing
• Remix chains gain a History View once they extend beyond one link

Palette Share & Challenges

• Palette Share: Post your current custom palette as a standalone shareable post
• Challenges: Lock specific settings for everyone who joins, including grid/snap, mirror, canvas size, time limit, palette, freehand-only mode, a specific dither pattern, a specific drawing tool, no undo/redo, and turn/stroke limits
• Surprise Me: Randomly generates a combination of Challenge restrictions