Everybody doodles. Or draws, or sketches. It's one of those universal human behaviors instilled into us from kindergarten, or maybe from caveman times. deviantArt muro is a free browser-based drawing tool that invites you to take your doodling online, and offers some fun brushes and an innovative way to record your work and learn from others.

The Webink brush is one of eight free brushes that come with deviantArt muro. Other free brushes include Basic (does what you think), Paintbrush (emulates a soft airbrush actually), Nightmare (similar to Webink but much wilder), the self-explanatory Drippy, Scattered, and Sketch, and Smoke. That last one is my personal favorite; it creates interesting shading effects when you twist and turn the mouse. I was able to use it to draw a fairly creepy-looking rabbit with little effort. Other than the eight free brushes, Muro has twelve paid brushes, divided into three packs. Each pack costs 320 deviantArt points, which works out to roughly $4 at the time of this writing.

Muro's killer feature, though, is not a drawing tool at all: It is called Redraw, and it records you as you work. You can then share the recording with others, so they get a sense for the process and the workflow and can learn from your work (or offer tips).

deviantArt muro doesn't try to be a complete drawing application, but a simple artistic tool. Being an HTML5 application, it should work as well on iPhone and iPad; I tested it on a PC only. Whether used on a PC or tablet, its social sharing feature is truly innovative, and it makes drawing fun and accessible.

Note: The Download button takes you to the vendor's site, where you can download the latest version of the software.

--Erez Zukerman