Sketch and draw with Canva
Channel your creativity with fun drawing tools on an infinite canvas. Use Draw — the free tool for sketching and drawing online from Canva.
Drawing made fun and easy
With Draw, expressing your creativity has never been this fun. Color outside the lines using a suite of built-in features and drawing tools that make sketching online a breeze, wherever you are. Invite your team and bring ideas to life with every drawn stroke and filled shape on a drawing board that never runs out of space.
Easy-to-use drawing tools
Sketch your ideas with drawing tools you can use and adjust easily. Pick from our selection of pen, marker, highlighter, and eraser to get started.
Shaped into perfection
Perfect your shapes with Shape Assist. Simply sketch any shape or line, and our built-in feature will polish it up.
Draw anywhere
Draw what you want, when you want, where you want — on any device.
Collaborate seamlessly
Visualize ideas with your team and easily mark up designs simultaneously.
How to draw with Canva
Unleash your creativity
Your ideas, your way
Add freehand drawings to your Canva designs to reflect your personality. Use our pen, marker, highlighter, and eraser for your unique ideas.
Refine your artistic vision
Whether you want to resize, rotate, scale, or move your sketches, you can do it with ease using our intuitive touch and pen gestures.
Magnify your creativity
Tweak the minute details of your drawing or step back to see the big picture using pinch-to-zoom gestures as you work on your canvas.
Draw up ideas with your team
A new way to get inspired
Take your brainstorming sessions to new heights. Use Draw to unlock your team's creativity and grow ideas on an infinite drawing board.
Draw attention to your ideas
Mark up designs and add notes for your team with ease. Circle, highlight, underline, and annotate as you would on paper, all in real time.
Bring your data to life
Craft polished flowcharts and diagrams in a snap with Shape Assist. Just draw a shape or line, hold, and this feature will do the rest.
Express yourself with ease
All your creative gems in one place
Whether you're making presentations or social media content, grab attention with hand-drawn doodles and graphics, all within Canva.
Capture ideas anytime
Sketch and ideate whenever and wherever inspiration strikes. Access the same tools and features on any web browser or desktop device.
For artists of all ages
Art is for everyone, and so is Draw. Whether you're a student or a professional, bring ideas to life with every sketch you make—for free.
Frequently asked questions
Draw is the action or process of creating a picture by making lines on paper or another surface. According to Brittanica, drawing involves using a “pencil, pen, marker, chalk, etc., but not usually with paint.” While artists use drawing techniques in various art forms like sculpture and graphic design, drawing is widely recognized as an independent art form in its own right.
Draw also refers to Canva's online drawing tool. The quick draw feature allows you to draw, sketch, and doodle anything—whether for a presentation, flow chart, or Instagram story. The Draw tool has an infinite drawing pad and a selection of pens in multiple sizes and colors, making it easy to give life to your ideas.
No worries! You can use Canva's built-in Shape Assist feature to refine your shapes and turn them into clean, smooth drawings. Start by drawing a shape freehand, hold your pen in place for a second, and Shape Assist will convert it to a perfectly polished illustration.
At the moment, Shape Assist works for the following:
- Rectangles
- Arrows
- Triangles
- Circles
- Stars
- Lines
- Hearts
- Diamonds
We're working on adding more to the list, so stay tuned!
You can download your drawings to your device in high-resolution PNG, JPG, and PDF formats. However, if you encounter issues saving your drawing, this likely means you've exceeded our stroke limit of 1 MB per design. To resolve this issue, consider the following options:
- Reduce the number of strokes in your design
- Duplicate or make copies of your design, then pick up where you left off in the new design
Draw every creative possibility with Canva
