Odosketch is an elegant flash-based sketchpad

Odosketch is a drawing tool that's been around since 2006, but just caught my eye this month with its latest relaunch. It's a quick Flash-based way to do some drawing on a background that looks like a page in your trusty Moleskine sketchbook. You may not be as talented as some of the artists in the Odosketch featured gallery, but because of the way the app is designed, pretty much anything you draw with it looks good.

There's a selection of several brushes that vary in color and thickness, and it's just plain hard to make something look bad with them. The colors in Odosketch's limited palette all go together well, and I found myself accidentally achieving effects with my mouse that probably look better than anything I could do with a real brush. Also, Odosketch has an important feature that we take for granted in desktop apps, but some Flash projects unfortunately lack: you can actually save your work.

Tags: drawing, flash, fun, odosketch, sketch