You can invite people to the canvas by Canvas or My Artdesk views.
If you don't have anyone to invite, you can start by meeting new people and drawing with them in our public Art Jams.
I. Canvas view:
To Invite Others To Your Drawing:
Option 1:
Copy the whole URL from your browser window and send it to anyone you want to draw with:
Option 2:
Click EITHER the invite person button or blue Share button and then Invite to drawing in the top right corner:
Here you can also choose to copy the drawing link OR you can select people from your list of Recent interactions or Followers, or you can invite someone via email.
You can find out more about Following others here.
When someone is invited, they will receive and in-app notification.
Option 3:
Tap on the blue Share button, and then enable the setting to Allow followers to see and join you on the canvas. This is enabled by default in Art Jams.
This will indicate to followers in their dashboard what canvas you are currently drawing on and allow them to join you from there. More about this in the Public Profile and Following guide.
This is how your drawing status will appear in the Following list of others when you enabled this setting:
II. My Artdesk view:
To Invite Others To Your Drawing:
Click the "Action" button (three dots) and then select "Share" button
Either copy the link or select people to invite as instructed above
Note: We are phasing out password protection for canvases as data show us that is very seldom used.