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Initializer

On this page, we explore ways to start a canvas, laying down a composition before the first stroke so a drawing never begins on blank paper.

Each initializer rolls one composition (its tools, colors, and placement) and bakes it over a paper gradient. The button on the canvas corner runs it again with a fresh palette. The initializers live as one group in the library, and the drawing tool runs them too: every clear picks one at random from its config's list, so the try-drawing demos start with the scatter, and the Drawing Tool Demo and the packaging layer start with any of the four.

Gradient and scatter

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The drawing tool's own start: a paper gradient and one to four strokes scattered with random tools and palette colors, the first one long.

Stroke patterns

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A random stroke tool draws one narrow-lined composition over the paper (stripes at a random angle, a grid, or wave rows) in two alternating palette colors, with even odds of a second composition overlapping the first.

Split colors

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The canvas is divided by a random straight line, and each part is divided again at even odds, a few levels deep. Every region takes a flat palette color, and one to four random strokes land on top.

Big fills

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One to three very big fills with random fill tools. Each fill's spine runs from a point past one edge into the far half of the canvas, so it always crosses the midline without having to cover the center.