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Contributing Artwork

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The MyPaint project uses artwork contributed by the community to communicate to users and interested parties. functionality

list of open artwork requests.

Website & Promotional

MyPaint Screenshots

Exclusive usage rights:

  • Promotional reasons like the website or social media How to: Artists: 1
  1. Upload the image on the community forums
  2. In the post, give the project permission for where you want to let us use it. Maintainers: Save the permission post on the Wayback machine. Link to the permission post when using the image.

CC BY(-SA):

  • Distribution in MyPaint itself
  • All other purposes

MyPaint

MyPaint’s interface is graphically fairly simple, but there are tasks which need an artist’s eye.

Icons

MyPaint’s icons are primarily SVG symbolic icons, rendered at 16x16 pixels. For certain uses such as the toolbar, we ask for 24x24 pixel versions too. Try to be pixel-exact when designing icons, that way the icons will look good at the sizes we need.

There is an Inkscape template for icon designers, and an extraction script in the svg folder.

Backgrounds

Brush Packages

Have you created some cool brushes for MyPaint? [[Share them with others|Brush Packages]]!

Licensing

Our standard backgrounds and brush definitions really need to be usable by anyone, for any purpose, in any artwork, without royalty payments or legal encumbrances. This means we we have particularly stringent requirements of openness for the standard MyPaint brush packs and paper textures. See the Licensing Policy in the wiki for details.