BECOME A FIRST-RATE ARTIST IN JUST 30 SECONDS
This art program is an homage to Michael Brough and Andi McClure's BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS which I made for Eggjam 28. I played GREAT ARTIST when it came out circa 2014, but after an overwhelmingly decisive poll on the in the eggjam discord channel, I decided not to revisit it before making this homage. The original (IIRC) only had keyboard controls. Whereas in addition to having glitch art tools, I wanted mine to be more of a hybrid paint program with a mouse paintbrush, though with some unconventional controls and no UI outside of the canvas itself.
I'll go ahead and tell you the most important controls:
Move the mouse to move the paintbrush.
w = Save Canvas to Image
x = Reset Canvas
u = Undo (The undo buffer stores 100 operations)
r = Redo
p = Toggle pixel snapping for brush
g = Toggle between smooth and sharp drawing mode. This will reset the canvas.
In the spirit of the original, I'll leave you to figure out the rest. If you want a hint, the paint controls are based on my previous art program Rainbow Paint.
If you want another hint because this game does not (yet) use the full keyboard like GREAT ARTIST, the keymap is defined here.
Source Code: https://github.com/fadookie/eggjam28
Made with p5.js.
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Install instructions
The full art tool is available via the web player. I've added a downloadable version for offline use but it requires a webserver to run, if you need this please check the included README.html for more information.
Development log
- Downloadable version addedFeb 13, 2026
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Very fun!!!!
Oooh, pretty! Thanks for sharing. I'm glad you found some of the glitch tools.
Art Indeed :D
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Very cool, thanks for sharing!
Thank you for making this, here's my art.
I love it, thanks for sharing! Don't be afraid to use the hints in the description if you want help finding the "secret" keys.
I made art ty :)
Thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed it, and I'd love to see what you made if you post it anywhere! BTW, I am planning to update soon with a simple downloadable webpage version if people want to be able to use it offline. Edit: Offline version is live although unfortunately it's not super user-friendly as it requires a webserver, but I've included basic instructions on how to create your own using a one-line Python command.