#shipainter

[hexadopamine]

learned the hard way that i cant upload to oekakis from my ipad so ill just post this one here

[wycha]

apathy

[darkcandy-starfait]

Trio of oekaki doodles of the lightner squad!! You can use them as matching profile pics if you want as long as you credit me!!

* PROSHIPPERS DNI !!

[clefdesoll]

I added PaintBBS Neo to the oekaki board! It’s Paint BBS as you remember it, but an HTML5 app.

Go give i a try!! :3

[tuherrus]

a redraw of a robot character based on my first proper digital drawings i made with my mouse on oekaki shipainter, probably from 2009 (i'm not certain on what year i exactly drew them)

[somerakaptilo]

A bunch of oekaki scribbles, mostly using PaintBBS (altho there is one Shipainter in there, but unfortunately that kept freezing so 🙃)

[beasttrash]

i turn 27 in less then two weeks, i haven't used shipainter or chibi paint in a decade.

and yet.

"would this drawing get me accepted to draw on suta-ratio's oekaki?" is still my litmus test.

[babbybones]

playback of that tasque manager drawing, generated by Shi-Painter

[vibripple]

[2014]

[huruihone]

コロナが少し落ち着いたので、海の上にある海芝浦という駅を訪ねてきました。小さな駅ですが、海の上と言うこともあって空も開けて広く、対岸には工場の可愛いタンクやかっこいいガントリークレーンも沢山見られます。天気も良く風も少ない日だったのでただたださわやかで、水面にぷかぷか浮かぶ海鳥の集��が可愛かったり、時折二隻の船がすれ違う際に「こっち行きますね」「すみませーん」と道ばたで道を譲り合っているような会話をしているのも楽しくて癒されました。一つ前の新芝浦駅からの車窓の窓いっぱいの川と工場と倉庫もSFの雰囲気を醸し出して、ほんの少し千と千尋の世界を味わったような素敵な心地になりました。秋も終わりだったので気温を鑑みて昼間に訪ねたのですが、いつか綺麗だという夕焼けも見てみたいなと思いました。

[strawbanna]

Creamy Mami fanart, shipainter, 2015

[winomaki]

gossips! :0

[wycha]

and bonus version of this artwork with sketchy colors because it looks better

[ka-takqa]

canada week!

[shameboree]

the tegaki nostalgia ive been feeling this year is sf unbearable. no site will ever be an addictive hellsite the way tegaki was an addictive hellsite and no other rp format will ever be as good. paintberri tries and i respect it for that but i will forever be chasing the high of opening the single layer 480x640px canvas with 216 web safe color palette and 7 brush size options to post something absolutely deranged in LCC 

[domesticangel]

Hello! So I am interested in paint bbs and I saw that you used to paint in there and I was hopeing if you can explain a little we’re to start or how to start (how to do a account) because I don’t really know the official place of if it is a official place, I hope you can help me! Sorry for my English

HIIIIII dont apologize for your english its perfect!!!

sooo unfortunately paintbbs and oekaki in general are really falling out of fashion as of the past couple years, if i had to guess mostly due to the fact that its reliant entirely on java, which is also becoming obsolete fast at least in regards to anything not related to programming. I can't speak for people using other operating systems, but at least on my mac, its been probably a year at least since it could properly run any sort of java-based applet before the os updates just outran what java was capable of ☹️ so you may very well have better luck with windows or something but I'm not sure

another main problem though is that because of this, there aren't very many places that host oekaki anymore. bc it wasn't a program that you downloaded to your computer (at least to my knowledge; ive looked for downloads and haven't been able to find any) there wasn't really one specific place you had to go to use paintbbs--generally how it worked was that there would be a board online (usually an offshoot of a forum) that would host the oekaki applets, and you would make an account on one of these boards in order to be able to use the oekaki applets, similar to things like tegaki e. i wish i had some boards i could recommend to you, but the one or two that i kept up with don't exist anymore.....im not sure when oekaki originated, but judging by the fact that i started using it in middle school, it wouldve had to have been in the early 2000s, so a lot of the boards were well over 10-15 years old, and the domain names seemed to start expiring one after another. the most recent board i used was called sutaro sketcher, but trying to go to it now just leaves you with a 404 error.

you can definitely try your hand at just searching for oekaki boards and seeing what comes up (ive tried a couple times, but I'm mostly getting boards with newer applets that I'm not familiar with as opposed to the classic paintbbs, shipainter, oekakibbs, etc. it looks like chickensmoothie is relatively active and at least functioning, though it only offers chibipaint, which i knew of but never familiarized myself with) because its entirely possible i overlooked some, but i myself haven't had much luck. if you do find a board with paintbbs, I'm sure all you'll have to do is register, which should immediately grant you access to the drawing applets! just make sure your java is up to date though, because they get seriously buggy if it’s not. id also recommend screenshotting your progress frequently, because a lot of the times the applets will allow you to use all the functions of it no problem, but will crash or run into issues when you try to upload your finished piece.

in the event that you don't find any boards youre satisfied with, you could always give tegaki e a try! its not exactly the same, but i do find it shares similarities to the ways that shipainter and paintbbs handled color and opacity layering. I'm sorry i couldn't be more helpful!!!!! oekaki was a huge part of my artistic upbringing and it brings back such fond memories, but unfortunately its kinda disappeared 😭

i tried to track down some artists that used it recently, and i believe i found one, so i sent them an ask to see if they knew of and used an active board. if they reply back with one, ill definitely let you know!!!