News & Updates

Projects and competitions - draw and win 450 $US

Mon, 13/07/2009 - 14:26 — admin

Tired of drawing without a reason?
Need some money for your pocket?
Need a challenge and want to compete with the best artists?
Need more promotion for your art?

The new project and competition section is here!

Queeky projects are theme based drawing contests with various prizes:
You can win cash, amazon gift certificates and promotion for your profile.

To join a project, visit the projects detail page and click on "Contribute".

Here come the current open competitions:

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CASINO ROYALE - A LICENSE TO DRAW
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QueekyPaint Update: New paint brush tool and 25 new brushes for smudge and eraser

Fri, 03/07/2009 - 18:19 — admin

Hello,
Here come the current updates on Queeky:

a) New paint-brush-tool! Create amazing effects in combination with
b) 25 new brushes which you can use with eraser, smudge and paint-brush-tool!
c) I am currently working on the first Queeky competition including amazing prizes.
Our first competition will start soon on 12. Juli 2009!

Don't be lame and start exploring the new tools!
Or do you want her to overtake you: http://www.queeky.com/cms/gallery/image/snail-14 ?

Stay tuned and happy drawing,
PH

http://www.queeky.com/cms/tools/queekypaint

Queeky update: Skins for profile and blog

Wed, 24/06/2009 - 16:16 — admin

User lovemeso requested individual skins for personal profile and blog.
I found this was a great idea:

You can now define background images for your profile and blog.
Go to "My account" -> "Edit" -> "Custom Layout" to change layout settings.
You can enter a url of any Queeky Artwork or any external image.

How to insert a Queeky Artwork - background:
1. Go to the drawing you want to use as background
2. Mouse over "Share this Artwork"
3. Copy image URL
4. Go to "My account" -> "Edit" -> "Custom Layout" and paste your copied URL.

Greetings, PH

QueekyPaint Update: Fill-Bucket, Context-Menu, Redo and Eraser

Wed, 24/06/2009 - 02:32 — admin

Here come the current updates on Queeky:
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1. Right-Click menu (Context Menu)
This feature helps quickly switching tools by rightclicking on the canvas. Helpful for tablet users!

2. Eraser including different brushes
Reworked the Eraser tool for transparent erasing on Layers.

3. Flood Fill Feature
Reworked the Fill bucket tool. The new tool enables normal/transparent filling.

4. Redo feature: Undo and Redo up to 25 steps on each layer!

5. Layer display in replay tool. See the becoming of drawings created with Layer-technique.

QueekyPaint Update - Layers enabled

Sat, 20/06/2009 - 17:37 — admin

Drawing is more then the final product.
Drawing is an process.
Queeky's first intention is to show this process.

Some of our fabulous artists requested layer-technics for QueekyPaint.
A big challenge for technical implementation, though the replay of the drawing process should be kept.

After some sleepless nights and a few hundreds lines of new code later I am proud to present you the solution:
The current update of QueekyPaint enables Layers including full replay support.
You can now create up to 100 Layers, merge them, slide them and use blendmodes on them.

Drawing Tool Updates/Flickr Group

Mon, 15/06/2009 - 19:26 — admin

1. Smudge Tools
Currently added a Smudge-Tool to QueekyPaint.
This new tool helps creating fluent transitions and amazing backgrounds.
The Smude tool comes with full replay and timeline-support!

2. Rulers/Guides
Since some days there are rulers for better constructing your artwork.
To use the new guides, drag them from the rulers left and top of the drawing tools interface.
To lock/unlock/hide your guides click on the small icon located at left top of the interface.

Guides will be saved and still available when editing pictures.

Queeky - it is up to you!

Mon, 08/06/2009 - 14:34 — admin

Queeky is constructed as an interactive platform for creating online artworks and present them to a world wide audience.
Drawing is a process of studying enviroment and own perception.
As you are the artist, your opinion of how an interactive art-site should work is important to us.

Help us to improve our online drawing service.
Please take part in our current polls, or suggest a poll you are interested in.
Let us know about your ideas and suggest cool new features.

View all current polls:
http://www.queeky.com/cms/poll

Suggest a new poll:
http://www.queeky.com/cms/node/add/forum/441

Drawing Day 2009 - Draw for a better world!

Mon, 01/06/2009 - 15:00 — admin

Only a few days left until June 6: Drawing Day 2009 Group now open!

We live in a crazy time where everything runs fast and everybody tries to fleece his fellows.
We treat nature like it would be an exchangeable battery in our nifty toys of civilisation.
We use animals as objects of our industrial production and we modify the genetic code of various creatures.
In our time, capitalism and socialism rule the human everyday life, and in many places of the earth human rights are trampled under foot.
More and more people become indigent, and few dudes get it all.

Send drawings as an ecard

Sun, 24/05/2009 - 14:08 — admin

Hello Queeky user,
You can now send each drawing on Queeky as an ecard to your friends.
To create an own ecard, create a drawing, save it to the gallery.
To send an ecard, go to your desired drawing (own or other) and click on "Send as ecard".
Choose if you want to be notified when your ecard is picked and send it to multiple email addresses.

Did you already visit the new Queeky groups?
Some new features have been added:
- Upload drawings from your computer and attach it to your group(Drunk.
- View all recent group posts: http://www.queeky.com/cms/groups/news

New Queeky – Groups, Blogs and more

Tue, 19/05/2009 - 15:26 — admin

Hello dear Queeky user,
As some of you know, Queeky started with a little selfmade Flash program, with a few essential tools and the possibility to save animated drawings to the Queeky server.
At the beginning in 2005, there was no way to create a useraccount or edit own drawings.

Today Queeky comes with more then 10.000 artists, 22.000 drawings, unique tools, a bunch of enhanced and new community features, new design and top Google results for each artist.
You are a top Queeky user? Please let us know if we could improve your homepage - traffic Smile

NEW Queeky features: