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'''Oekaki''' (<span lang="ja">お絵描き</span>; drawing/painting) is a form of computer art that originated from the Japanese-speaking web during the late '90s and early '00s. The term ''oekaki'' typically refers to art drawn using '''oekaki [[Bulletin board|bulletin boards]]''' and '''oekaki chats''', and these sites were very popular with amateur artists around the world during the first half of the '00s. Their popularity waned as the decade wore on however, before fading into near-complete obscurity during the 2010s. As of 2022, there are only a few semi-active oekaki bulletin boards remaining.
'''Oekaki''' (<span lang="ja">お絵描き</span>; drawing/painting) is a form of computer art that originated from the Japanese-speaking web during the late '90s and early '00s. The term ''oekaki'' typically refers to art drawn using '''oekaki [[Bulletin board|bulletin boards]]''' and '''oekaki chats''', and these sites were very popular with amateur artists around the world during the first half of the '00s. Their popularity waned as the decade wore on however, before fading into near-complete obscurity during the 2010s. <del>As of 2022, there are only a few semi-active oekaki bulletin boards remaining</del> As of 2025, various bulletin board/[[imageboard]] sites and random individuals have installed their own oekaki boards, usually utilizing POTI-board EVO.


The reasons for their waning popularity are many, but it was at least in part due to web users developing vastly different browsing and computing habits than were commonplace during the first half of the '00s. The final nail in the coffin was likely the obsolescence—and eventual discontinuation—of Java and [[Flash]] support in web browsers, which prevented the average user from being able to use oekaki applets. Since then, several oekaki applets that do not require Java or Flash have been created, but the format's popularity has yet to show any major signs of revival.
There are likely to be many reasons for the oekaki board format's waning popularity, but it was at least in part due to web users developing vastly different browsing and computing habits than were commonplace during the first half of the 2000s. The final nail in the coffin was likely the obsolescence—and eventual discontinuation—of Java and [[Flash]] support in web browsers, which prevented the average user from being able to use oekaki applets. Since then, several oekaki applets that do not require Java or Flash have been created, but the format's popularity has yet to show any major signs of revival.


Some people confuse oekaki art with pixel art due to the visible aliasing that oekaki art often exhibits, but they are not the same thing. Pixel art is typically drawn meticulously pixel-by-pixel with strict color palette limitations; oekaki art, on the other hand, is usually hand drawn with a graphics tablet in a web browser, and only appears pixelated or palette-limited if that is the artist's intent, or if there are limitations within the oekaki applet being used.
Some people confuse oekaki art with pixel art due to the visible aliasing that oekaki art often exhibits, but they are not the same thing. Pixel art is typically drawn meticulously pixel-by-pixel with strict color palette limitations; oekaki art, on the other hand, is usually hand drawn with a graphics tablet in a web browser, and only appears pixelated or palette-limited if that is the artist's intent, or if there are limitations within the oekaki applet being used.
==Oekaki applets==
==Oekaki applets==


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*[https://github.com/desuwa/tegaki tegaki.js] (JavaScript; [https://desuwa.github.io/tegaki.html live demo])
*[https://github.com/desuwa/tegaki tegaki.js] (JavaScript; [https://desuwa.github.io/tegaki.html live demo])
*[https://github.com/websanova/wPaint wPaint] (jQuery)
*[https://github.com/websanova/wPaint wPaint] (jQuery)
*[https://github.com/axnospaint/axnospaint-lib AXNOS Paint] (JavaScript; [https://axnospaint.github.io/axnospaint-lib/ live demo])


==Oekaki bulletin board scripts==
==Oekaki bulletin board scripts==


*[https://www.punyu.net/php/oekaki.php POTI-board] (PHP; based on futaba.php; utilizes Shi-chan's PaintBBS and Shi-Painter)
<div style="overflow-x:auto">
*[https://github.com/satopian/poti-kaini-EN POTI-board EVO EN] (PHP; updated version of POTI-board with English translation; utilizes PaintBBS NEO, Shi-Painter (uses [https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/ CheerpJ] to make it work on modern browsers), ChickenPaint, and Klecks; [https://paintbbs.sakura.ne.jp/cgi/neosample/poti-board-en/ live demo])
{| class="wikitable"
*[https://github.com/satopian/Petit_Note/ Petit Note] (PHP; utilizes PaintBBS NEO, ChickenPaint, and Klecks; [https://paintbbs.sakura.ne.jp/petit/ live demo])
|+ List of Oekaki BBS scripts
|-
! Name !! Language !! Applets !! Notes !! Demo
|-
| [https://www.punyu.net/php/oekaki.php POTI-board]
| PHP
|
* Shi-chan's PaintBBS (Java)
* Shi-Painter (Java)
| Based on futaba.php. Last update was 2008/12/08 and hasn't been actively worked on since 2005, so the applets won't work in modern browsers.
|
|-
| [https://github.com/satopian/poti-kaini-EN POTI-board EVO EN]
| PHP
|
* PaintBBS NEO (HTML5)
* Tegaki (HTML5)
* AXNOS Paint (HTML5)
* Shi-Painter (Java; runs on modern browsers using [https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/ CheerpJ])
* ChickenPaint (HTML5)
* Klecks (HTML5)
| Updated version of POTI-board, with English translation. The Japanese version is called [https://github.com/satopian/poti-kaini POTI-board EVO]. Still maintained as of 2025/09/16.
| [https://paintbbs.sakura.ne.jp/cgi/neosample/poti-board-en/ Live demo]
|-
| [https://github.com/satopian/Petit_Note/ Petit Note]
| PHP
|
* PaintBBS NEO (HTML5)
* Tegaki (HTML5)
* AXNOS Paint (HTML5)
* ChickenPaint (HTML5)
* Klecks (HTML5)
| Both Japanese and English are available based on the user's browser settings, but there is [https://github.com/satopian/Petit_Note_EN Peti Note EN] which has an English config.php file (and is otherwise identical). Still maintained as of 2025/09/16.
| [https://paintbbs.sakura.ne.jp/petit/ Live demo]
|-
| [https://www.ninechime.com/products/ Wacintaki Poteto]
| PHP
|
* ChickenPaint (HTML5)
* Shi-chan's PaintBBS (Java)
* Shi-Painter (Java)
* ChibiPaint (Java)
| Started out as a CSS conversion of OekakiPoteto (2001–2002). Still maintained as of 2025/09/01.
| [https://www.ninechime.com/coonikaki/ Live demo]
|}
</div>


==Oekaki bulletin boards==
==Oekaki bulletin boards==
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<small>*Note that this is not a complete collection of Heyuri oekaki, just some of the best/notable ones. They are sorted from most recent to least recent.</small>
<small>*Note that this is not a complete collection of Heyuri oekaki, just some of the best/notable ones. They are sorted from most recent to least recent.</small>
<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Awesome oekaki of Heyuri!!">
<gallery mode="nolines" caption="Awesome oekaki of Heyuri!!">
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File:1702565092347.png|Silent loli artist #24
File:1702471733702.png|Silent loli artist #23
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File:1701927281493.png|Anonymous' character: nau
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File:1701773665741.png|Silent loli artist #22
File:1701603583278.png|Silent loli artist #21
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File:1701418532930.png|Nevermind, it lives!<span lang="ja" style="font-family:'MS PGothic','IPAMonaPGothic',Monapo,Mona,submona,sans-serif">(゚ー゚)</span>
File:1701410777245.png|Iz it teh end 4 heyuri?...
File:1701409493461.png|Disaster struck...
File:1701403436878.png|On the first of December 2023...
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File:1700753347932.png|Silent loli artist #20
File:1700568599648.png|Silent loli artist #19
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File:1697908221336.png|Heyuri-tan firing a laser at something while teh city is asspl0ding!
File:1697405792945.png|"Gentlemen, please! There's room for both of your abstract cocks in my mouth!"
File:1697393646915.png|"My abstract art is cooler than ur abstract art!!!!!"
File:1697243133530.png|"Abstract art. Praise me and suck my cock"
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File:1695656428278.png|Heyuri's first tegaki oekaki!
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File:1689012107337.png|Silent loli artist #18
File:1688931192645.png|Silent loli artist #17
File:1688920994463.png|Silent loli artist #16
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File:1682204017558.png|Loli put some clothes on for the Führer's birthday
File:1681738256814.png|Silent loli artist #15 - he's back!!! <span lang="ja" style="font-family:'MS PGothic','IPAMonaPGothic',Monapo,Mona,submona,sans-serif">ヽ(´∇`)ノ</span>
File:1681175507101.png|NO
File:1681089201507.png|There's no response. It's just a corpse.
File:1681067561946.png|"heyurian portrait"
File:1680741642858.png|"shalom... they call me the kaijew"
File:1680682586055.png|"Herro I am chinese kaiju"
File:1680666652046.png|Anonymous takes your sadness ''very'' seriously
File:1680663649470.png|J/K, it is XD
File:1680662421292.png|Heyuri ojisan is kowai...
File:1680495981221.png|7-Zip-tan - a 7-Zip is you!
File:1680269916623.png|Teenage angst Heyuri-tan
File:1680221974776.png|Bunny and Heyuri-tan #2
File:1680045989334.png|"bunny says hi to heyuri!"
File:1679281653454.png|Chen!
File:1679184089977.png|What cute things she's probably saying!
File:1678804195581.png|This anonymous also loves risotto...
File:1678762965524.png|Fem-Risotto is apparently anonymous's waifu
File:1678710732666.png|Party bus TO THE FACE!!!
File:1678583729364.png|"HAHAHAHAHAHA YOU FOOLS"
File:1678255104740.png|Adorable sukumizu loli!!
File:1677992958821.png|Smokin' angel
File:1677989531640.png|Cute brown bunny girl!
File:1677986055136.png|Cute angel!
File:1677981659037.png|Cute nekomimi girl #4
File:1677980603620.png|Cute nekomimi girl #3
File:1677977364830.png|<span lang="ja" style="font-family:'MS PGothic','IPAMonaPGothic',Monapo,Mona,submona,sans-serif">のワの</span>
File:1677645239717.png|Cute nekomimi girl #2
File:1677639053139.png|Cute nekomimi girl
File:1677619739574.png|Cute~
File:1677370968741.png|This guy read the tutorial!
File:1677249060095.png|But you're the reason keeping me here!
File:1677216453349.png|Truth
File:1677185163133.png|"zzzzzz tiem"
File:1676755297001.png|Self portrait by anonymous
File:1676506747822.png|Self portrait by purple-sage
File:1676503537458.png|<span lang="ja" style="font-family:'MS PGothic','IPAMonaPGothic',Monapo,Mona,submona,sans-serif">オワタ\(^o^)/</span>
File:1676134252642.png|Bonerific brown girl by usagi
File:1676002358797.png|YOU GONNA GET GRAPED... by [[faganon]]!?
File:1675682001980.png|...
File:1675328630356.png|Ai-ai-aiii I'm your little butterfly~ <span lang="ja" style="font-family:'MS PGothic','IPAMonaPGothic',Monapo,Mona,submona,sans-serif">ヽ(´∇`)ノ</span>
File:1675202780076.png|I moon'd
File:1674957394275.png|Usagi's unfinished Chun-Li drawing (FINISH IT!!!)
File:1674710748260.png|Gettin' jiggy with it
File:1674611462554.png|Anonymous was inspired
File:1674438936362.png|Presented without comment
File:1674413864334.png|Probably the best oekaki ever made, taking <span lang="ja" style="font-family:'MS PGothic','IPAMonaPGothic',Monapo,Mona,submona,sans-serif">_ノ乙(、ン、)_</span>-san 8 days to create!!
File:1674395953835.png|Rena ^_^
File:1673980102666.png|Nothing a paper bag can't fix
File:1673875511292.png|WOMEN DRIVERS AMIRITE?
File:1673591834678.png|KABOOM
File:1673590141183.png|He's probably fine
File:1673127239789.png|I Mao'd
File:1673066966885.png|I maru'd
File:1672985613907.png|"Keeper of the Cuboid Prism Matrix"
File:1672983134964.png|Awoo~
File:1672874314136.png|dunno lol
File:1672683624281.png|Silent loli artist #14
File:1672598522348.png|Just Reimu... no bunny... no bewbs...
File:1672597874370.png|Ruukoto (EVEN BIGGER BUNNY BEWBS)
File:1672595038418.png|BIG BUNNY BEWBS
File:1672601036072.png|Happy <del>2023</del> 2003, featuring delicious chocolate rabbit!
File:1672547095398.png|New Year Mechazawa
File:1672536223659.png|Happy <del>2023</del> 2007!
File:1672516811456.png|"new years eve is an ideal time to play mahjong"
File:1672502122513.png|Hello Kitty girl
File:1672501604133.png|A <del>sweet peppermint cat</del> FURRY
File:1672463014842.png|Nappy-chan gonna nap
File:1672463014842.png|Nappy-chan gonna nap
File:1672419929515.png|Silent loli artist #13 (MY FUCKING B0NER)
File:1672419929515.png|Silent loli artist #13 (MY FUCKING B0NER)
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File:1669680300488.png|Heyuri dog
File:1669680300488.png|Heyuri dog
File:1669626270525.png|Heyuri-tan = buffz0rs
File:1669626270525.png|Heyuri-tan = buffz0rs
File:1669343723716.png|Chubby loli in sukumizugi!
File:1669343723716.png|Chubby loli in sukumizu!
File:1669343696323.png|"herui"
File:1669343696323.png|"herui"
File:1669322554422.png|<span lang="ja" style="font-family:'MS PGothic','IPAMonaPGothic',Monapo,Mona,submona,sans-serif">キタ━━━(・∀・)━━━!!</span>
File:1669322554422.png|<span lang="ja" style="font-family:'MS PGothic','IPAMonaPGothic',Monapo,Mona,submona,sans-serif">キタ━━━(・∀・)━━━!!</span>

Latest revision as of 11:47, 16 September 2025

PaintBBS NEO, featuring art by satopian
PaintBBS NEO, featuring art by satopian

Oekaki (お絵描き; drawing/painting) is a form of computer art that originated from the Japanese-speaking web during the late '90s and early '00s. The term oekaki typically refers to art drawn using oekaki bulletin boards and oekaki chats, and these sites were very popular with amateur artists around the world during the first half of the '00s. Their popularity waned as the decade wore on however, before fading into near-complete obscurity during the 2010s. As of 2022, there are only a few semi-active oekaki bulletin boards remaining As of 2025, various bulletin board/imageboard sites and random individuals have installed their own oekaki boards, usually utilizing POTI-board EVO.

There are likely to be many reasons for the oekaki board format's waning popularity, but it was at least in part due to web users developing vastly different browsing and computing habits than were commonplace during the first half of the 2000s. The final nail in the coffin was likely the obsolescence—and eventual discontinuation—of Java and Flash support in web browsers, which prevented the average user from being able to use oekaki applets. Since then, several oekaki applets that do not require Java or Flash have been created, but the format's popularity has yet to show any major signs of revival.

Some people confuse oekaki art with pixel art due to the visible aliasing that oekaki art often exhibits, but they are not the same thing. Pixel art is typically drawn meticulously pixel-by-pixel with strict color palette limitations; oekaki art, on the other hand, is usually hand drawn with a graphics tablet in a web browser, and only appears pixelated or palette-limited if that is the artist's intent, or if there are limitations within the oekaki applet being used.

Oekaki applets

Oekaki bulletin board scripts

List of Oekaki BBS scripts
Name Language Applets Notes Demo
POTI-board PHP
  • Shi-chan's PaintBBS (Java)
  • Shi-Painter (Java)
Based on futaba.php. Last update was 2008/12/08 and hasn't been actively worked on since 2005, so the applets won't work in modern browsers.
POTI-board EVO EN PHP
  • PaintBBS NEO (HTML5)
  • Tegaki (HTML5)
  • AXNOS Paint (HTML5)
  • Shi-Painter (Java; runs on modern browsers using CheerpJ)
  • ChickenPaint (HTML5)
  • Klecks (HTML5)
Updated version of POTI-board, with English translation. The Japanese version is called POTI-board EVO. Still maintained as of 2025/09/16. Live demo
Petit Note PHP
  • PaintBBS NEO (HTML5)
  • Tegaki (HTML5)
  • AXNOS Paint (HTML5)
  • ChickenPaint (HTML5)
  • Klecks (HTML5)
Both Japanese and English are available based on the user's browser settings, but there is Peti Note EN which has an English config.php file (and is otherwise identical). Still maintained as of 2025/09/16. Live demo
Wacintaki Poteto PHP
  • ChickenPaint (HTML5)
  • Shi-chan's PaintBBS (Java)
  • Shi-Painter (Java)
  • ChibiPaint (Java)
Started out as a CSS conversion of OekakiPoteto (2001–2002). Still maintained as of 2025/09/01. Live demo

Oekaki bulletin boards

English

Japanese

Gallery of epic Heyuri oekaki

*Note that this is not a complete collection of Heyuri oekaki, just some of the best/notable ones. They are sorted from most recent to least recent.