Unleash your creativity with ArtClash, a unique platform designed to inspire daily practice in drawing, sketching, and cartooning. Unlike Sketchbook, Photoshop, Procreate, or Infinite Painter, ArtClash is a work in progress crafted by a single developer for his wife and fellow artists to foster a community of continuous improvement.

With ArtClash, you can dive into a variety of activities. Choose to free draw, or select from an array of topics and optional constraints such as time limits, color restrictions, or specific canvas sizes. Engage in a fun challenge where you earn points based on how many people correctly guess your artwork. The platform offers six levels of difficulty for topics, ranging from single words to complex combinations of up to five different words, including nouns, verbs, places, and timer periods.

**Current Features:**

• Paint: Enjoy sketching, painting, and blending to create your masterpieces.
• Import Images: Use images as references or paint directly over them.
• Topics and Constraints: Select topics and constraints to challenge yourself and earn points when others guess your drawing correctly.
• Difficulty Levels: Choose from six difficulty levels for your topics.
• Constraints: Opt for additional challenges with time, color, or canvas size limitations for extra points.
• Free Draw: Unleash your creativity and share your artwork with the community.
• NSFW Flag: Option to view or avoid images flagged as NSFW.

**Current Early Access Issues/Bugs:**

• Ugly UI: The current Unity UI is challenging, but plans are in place to transition to XAML for a more responsive and attractive interface.
• Performance: For optimal performance on lower-end devices, keep canvases under 1024x1024. The GPU-accelerated brush engine can slow down with large canvases and small brushes. Tests in other engines are underway to improve speed.

**Upcoming Features:**

• New Games: Including a "telephone" game with drawings.
• Enhanced Social Features: Customizable avatars, commenting on projects or games, friending and following others.
• Improved UI and Brush Engine: Addressing current performance and aesthetic issues.
• Marquee Selection and Transform Tools: For more precise editing.
• Expanded Brush Library: More brushes available, with the ability to add and share custom brushes.
• Advanced Layer System: Including options to lock transparent pixels and masking capabilities.
• Developer Communication System: A feedback system for feature requests, bug reporting, and community voting on future changes.
• Moderators: Community members can be promoted to moderate flagged content and handle other issues.
• Topic and Constraints Submissions: Users can submit new topics and constraints for review and inclusion.
• Future Expansion: Plans for full image editing, animation, scripting, and game/storyboard prototyping.

While ArtClash is currently not a full-fledged image editing suite due to performance limitations with large textures and missing advanced editing features, it is optimized to encourage social competition and artistic growth among its users. Stay tuned as more exciting features and improvements are on the way!