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Draw in a mural

Fast, precise inking lets anyone sketch, write, and erase to bring concepts to life.

Use the MURAL drawing feature in the web browser app
Demonstrate hand-drawn designs on touchscreen devices
Create lines with different thicknesses and color

Draw in the web browser app

MURAL’s browser-based drawing allows you to use your cursor to draw freehand objects using your mouse or trackpad. Within a mural, you can access the draw tool on the left toolbar

Create a drawing in a mural:

  1. Click the pencil icon on the toolbar. This opens the drawing features at the top of your mural. You can also hit D on your keyboard to begin drawing.
  2. Select one of the pen tip options for your drawing. To change the color of your line, select the dropper icon and select a color.
  3. Click the canvas and hold to begin drawing
  4. To erase your drawings, select the eraser from the top toolbar
  5. When you’re done, select “Done Drawing” or hit D on your keyboard to exit the drawing experience.

Draw with touchscreen devices and displays

Instead of using the web browser app, you can draw on tablets and mobile devices. You can access the draw feature from the toolbar on these devices. To do this you will need to download the MURAL app for your device.

On these devices, the draw tool also appears in the toolbar. When you select the pen icon in the toolbar, you can switch to draw mode. On a tablet you can use a pen, while on mobile devices you can draw with your finger.

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Hello there, I'm Hailey Temple. And let me show you how to make hand-drawn work in MURAL. You can do this either from your web browser or from a touchscreen device using the MURAL apps. So, let's start with the web browser. I am in a mural, and I'm going to head over to the toolbar. There's a pencil icon, and when I click it, I get a specific drawing toolbar where I can start working. I can create lines of different thicknesses, but let me just start with medium. So I'm using a mouse to do this. So, it's not going to be pretty, but it's going to be there. Here we go. Last one, boom star great and mural makes it a little bit more refined for me. But it has that nice hand drawn feel. If I wanted to change the color of the line, click this drop icon, and I'll change it to blue. And let's say I wanted to make a shadow on this, I can use our highlighter tool, and it'll create a really nice shadow for me. Here we go. All right. So when you're done drawing, click done drawing. And now it's ready to go. And you can start adding other elements to it. Let me show you how to draw using a touchscreen device like this Microsoft Surface Hub. I've already downloaded the mural app on this touchscreen device. And I have a pen instead of a mouse, which is way more precise. So I have this drawing toolbar at the bottom of the mural app already, which is so he to be and so I can just select the pen thickness, I can change the color No, all I do is put the pen to the surface and start creating. So you can see it's a lot easier to quickly create in this touchscreen device. To erase anything here, all I do is click the eraser and skim over whatever I want to remove. So, you can draw in the web browser or on a touchscreen device, but whatever you do, drawing can bring your work to life. Happy collaborating.