Final EDIT Mk2: To see this year’s stats for our instance on canvas, click here (20 slrpnk users participated, collectively placing a whopping 9188 pixels!!, that’s 3x more than our previous record, and made us the 9th most active fediverse instance on canvas this year). You can also see every pixel placed by a slrpnk user on this image here.
Final EDIT: 48 hours later, the event has come to a close. Massive thanks to everyone who participated! We really hit it out of the park this year with some fantastic pieces of art, and this is by far the largest amount we’ve drawn in our history of Canvas events.
To see the final state of the canvas without any template to get in the way, click here.
To see a complete timelapse of the event, click here.
Big thanks to the Furry community this year, who graciously let us be their neighbors, and who contributed towards our works so much in mutual aid! You all rock! ^^
And be sure to leave a comment of appreciation here to the awesome folk who created and hosted the event, it’d mean a lot to them :)
I hope you all had fun! Here’s looking forward to next year’s Canvas! :D
Original Post (spoiler to save space)
EDIT 3: The first 24 hour time-lapse of the Canvas Event is now available to watch! Check it out here :)
EDIT 2: Looks like we’ve finished our goals already! If anyone has any other templates they want to add (I recommend Pixelorama for making them), I can pop em anywhere on the canvas as long as you’re sure they’ll fit somewhere. You can also create your own ‘team’ here to submit templates yourself, which everyone here will also be able to see (use the gear icon at the top right to create the team, then log in with it with the button next to it).
EDIT: Additional art to draw was added since we’re blazing through them!
Welcome everyone! the 2026 Canvas Event is now live, which means it’s time for us to gather together to make our mark on it!
>> Click here to go to the Canvas Page with the template already loaded! <<
Be sure that your template’s opacity is set to 50% so you can see what pixels still need to be placed. you can adjust the template opacity by clicking the settings button below your username at the top right:
For those unfamiliar with what the Canvas event is, refer to our previous planning thread here. But short version is: You can place 1 pixel every 30 seconds. You can also build up to 6 pixels to put down all at once just by waiting. !canvas@toast.ooo is the main Canvas community, where users can post and talk.
How do I join? - At the login on Canvas, use your existing Lemmy username (in my case, it would be ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net), which will prompt the website to send you a message to your Lemmy inbox with a code. Use that code along with your Lemmy username to log into the Canvas site so you can begin placing pixels.
What will we be drawing on the Canvas? - We’re going attempt to draw two three different images, one of a stylized SLRPNK logo:
This lovely image submitted by Terradragon:
An idea submitted by Vegafjord: the Indigenous peoples of the Americas’ flag for North America/Earth, which they refer to as Turtle Island.
And lastly, a .net to go after our slrpnk logo, so people know it’s a website (which I forgot to put into the original submission). I realized I could add it as its own seperate template next to our existing one, so no possibility of it messing up the positioning :)
EDIT: I edited this and changed the positioning on the template so it’s taking up less room on the canvas, and so it ensures that it stays connected to the main logo. Sorry for the extra work!
Where will we be drawing them on the Canvas? - The Furry artwork team, part of which is comprised of the Pawb.social lemmy instance, has agreed to let us create our artworks near them. You can see where we ours is planned to be in relation to theirs on this preview template map (look toward the bottom left corner): https://chocolatecakecodes.goip.de/cotemplate/ui/template/20260520-Canvas26_main
Their group has been incredibly helpful and kind, and were absolutely essential to helping us solidify our claim, as well as provide essential advice on how to use Canvas. If you have any spare pixels, consider helping out their projects in the bottom left corner as well in mutual aid. As far as I’m concerned, they’ve been absolute legends. :)
How do we begin drawing the artwork? - It’ll be best to begin with the outlines of each artwork, as that will help both stake our claim, and help us ensure the overall dimensions are right before we begin filling it in with the details.
I’ve created a set of instructions on what order to create each artwork in, progressing in 20% increments. Click each one below to expand it:
SLRPNK Logo 20% Steps:
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Hope is Rebellion 20% Steps:
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Thank you so much for the people who made the turtle. Very cute. 🐢❤️
Appreciation comment for the Austrian flag people playing in harmony with us :’)
The canvas is way more addictive than I anticipated. Really fun stuff. Good work everyone <3
Good work everyone!! I think we made something amazing and spread joy to the other instances <3 <3 hopefully some of them saw our work and want to come hang out with us too! I’m gonna be subscribing to pawb.social now since the furries were so fantastic c:
(side note: now I really want to learn how to do pixel art so I can design something cool for next year… I don’t need a new hobby. I don’t need a new hobby. I don;t need a new hobby–)
With an hour and half until the event ends, I mocked up this idea to fill in the area around our sun flower with more sunset sky.
I think it’d look pretty rad, if anyone wants to join in to change it :)
That looks so good!
And we got it in in time, with a big help from our furry allies :)
I just woke up and checked the canvas, continuing the sunset behind the flower looks SO GOOD <3 <3 y’all did an amazing job
One of our works being appreciated in a favorite canvas art thread ^^
~6 hours after my last screenshot and this is pretty nice
Looking around the canvas, slrpnk seems really well developed at the quarter-mark. Good job, gang!
26 hours to go
23 hours to go
Maybe we could do like a river running under the whole thing
That sounds cool to me!
I love the Tree-turtle you put in btw, I was hoping someone would do a turtle ^^
EDIT: Maybe the blue line in the LGBTQ+ flag could spill out as a waterfall down the black angled piece as the source of the river?
Ohh yes I like that!
Can you add it to the template i can help as well
Unfortunately I’m not quite sure how to download a pixel-accurate copy of the current canvas, so I don’t think I’d be able to accurately weave it around all the curves and current artwork for a template, so free handing live it is likely the only way to put it in.
how to download
I think you can do it via the share feature. I am unfortunately very bad with pixel art XD
Oh! good find! That does work ^^
What do you all think of something like this?
Maybe even a pubble on top on the
.net?
I made this teeny tiny little flower and grass pattern so we can fill in some of the white space, could someone add it to the template for me? I’m working on a more complex one too but I am no artist XD
Signing off for the night, if anyone has time to fill in the rest of the yellow around the “I’m Old” area I’d be grateful but I just can’t stay up that late. Cheers everyone can’t wait to see it completed!!
Though it wouldn’t seem it, that’s a little bit too big to fit in most of the gaps available now, is it okay if I trim down one side of it?
Is there a particular spot you’d like me to place it? :)
Oh - yes trim as needed! I figured we could just sort of scoot some little flowers in wherever they’ll fit rather than it being a specific shape. One of the furries suggested we could make tileable gardens to put around the map but I’m not quite that ambitious yet hehe
Okay, if you refresh the Canvas page the template should show up above our turtle island flag (but if you’d like it somewhere else instead, just let me know)
good morning (where I am) - it’s a perfect spot and thanks to everyone who’s expanded it!! I’m adding a little sunset around the turtle and trees now
It’s awesome to see it all filled out now, and how someone put one sus flower in amongst it :p
I absolutely adore the sunset, contrasts so nicely with everything and just looks super cool! Well done both of you! ^^
Hehehe the sus flower made me laugh out loud when I saw it XD
I’ve finally convinced my partner to make a slrpnk.net account because they saw me happily filling in squares of sunset and wanted to participate. Never mind that I’ve extolled the virtues of slrpnk.net in general for months XDD
Lol, the sunsets are what really draw in the crowds 😄
I hope they enjoy their time here! ^^
Which sus flower, you don’t mean my solar panel do you?! I agree it looks so nice with the sunset! I thought it was looking blank over there and was hoping someone would do something:) Thank you @foxymochakitten@slrpnk.net!!
There’s a single flower in the flower patch that’s actually
spoiler
an among us astronaut trying to blend in :p
The solar panel/heat lamp combo in the tree had me laughing the first time I noticed it 😄
I’m trying to help with the sunset but I think your artistic intuitions are better so please modify my tiles as you see fit:)
No no your additions to the sunset look amazing!! I just had a look and it’s so pretty
Since we still have a day, wouldn’t it be cool if we could make the sun in our first template glow or twinkle? We can make the sun rays move one pixel outwards then inwards again, then outwards again, and so on. It’ll look good in the time lapse. Just a thought. Like an animation loop.
That sounds awesome! All rays at once? Or one after the other?
I’m not sure actually. Don’t know how to make that animation in some software to see how it’ll look. I’ll research about it and report back here. Just wanted to share the idea before getting into it
GJ instance, we completed our goal, I am helping pawb.social with their art, all help is welcome!
I’m down here too!! Filling in the bee kiss o7
I let them know you’re helping out in their Matrix chat, and they appreciate the help! ^^
(Here’s their Matrix chat, if anyone wants to chill with em while pixelatin’, or help out defending some parts that keep getting vandalized)
This is so dumb but how the hell do I zoom in? If I try to pinch/spread my mousepad, it zooms the page so I can’t see the tools, and if I ctrl-plus then it zooms the canvas and tools equally. It’s driving me nuts!!
EDIT: may I propose we add some vegetables and plants to fill in some space around our designs?
hit the + key without hitting ctrl
oh my god yeah this is the one!!! Thank you so much
I think in the settings, otherwise in the url there’s a zoom=1 setting, maybe you can manually edit that?
On mobile (waterfox) two finger pinch just works for me, what are you using?
I’m on Firefox. I’ve figured out I can do the pinch and then scoot around a little bit with the arrow keys to find the color picker again so that’s working out for now XD
At least for me on Firefox desktop, scrolling with the scroll wheel zooms in and out of the canvas. Maybe a two finger scroll (if your trackpad supports it) would work?
I like the veggies and plants idea! ^^
I like the idea with the plants! But I’m not sure if I’m capable of coming up with a template
Almost missed it. I’m doing my part! :D
Looking quite good for now. Let’s see where those flags are going 🤨
The German “Keine Angst” flag is a reference to an antifa song with the same name that was published this year.
Oh, I know, I was more hinting at the probably austrian flag that’s forming next to it. “Keine Angst” is a nice song :)
When I came to help out all the SLRPNK projects were perfect, so I started “humanity’s flag” at 22, 245. Just need some help with the purple now.
Do you have a link to where the flag originates from? I tried searching humanity’s flag but nothing purple showed up.
I found it a couple of months ago on Reddit’s r/solarpunk
I realized while making it that it probably is a relatively unknown design, cause I couldn’t find a template for it.
I tried to do it from memory. Looks like I was slightly off: https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1te06bw/if_were_doing_flags/
Ooo, that is a very pleasing flag, and I’m a big fan of Sagan. Thanks for sharing it with us! :)
Right? Thanks. I’ve started “correcting” it. I like the darker purple of the original and I imagine humanity gaining the perspective of an astronaut looking down on the blue marble… realizing it’s so small and fragile. I think the flag represents it really well.
Going nicely
Super nice! I didn’t think we’d make so much progress only a few hours in :D
Better image, the text is done! 🥳I’m signing off for tonight. Massively grateful to everyone who joined in and kept the space from being taken. The progress you’ve all made is truly impressive.
I thought you were sleeping, I see you adding art 😂
It’s addictive 😵💫
But I also wanted to get those extra templates in while there’s still white space, otherwise I figured by the time I woke up it’d be too late.
At this rate you’ll be bored tomorrow! Good night 😊
I didn’t think turnout would be this good 😅
And since I was having trouble falling asleep, I decided instead to make more templates since we’re getting pretty close to finishing the first two so early.
