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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One of our works being appreciated in a favorite canvas art thread ^^
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
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)
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?
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)
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 think Ategon, a mod and developer of the event, is engaging in bot activity.
The pattern located around Pixel (413,381) (some orange guy with a teal tongue and big eyes) is being created by a bunch of new accounts that were created today in the toast.ooo instance that have made zero comments, including:
- QuiLL
- toottheguy
- piece_of_white_bead
- honeyquill
- magic
- tuffmeep
The only account older than 36 hours I can see having contributed to this pattern is Ategon’s account, who has placed a bunch of pixels. Since Ategon is a mod and developer of Canvas, I don’t see a reasonable avenue other than stating this suspicion publicly.
You do realize that events especially like this one get a lot of lurkers to create accounts? That doesn’t immediately mean that someone is botting
It’s possible that Ategon convinced a group of friends to help out, or as Chaf reasons, could just be lurkers participating. They also explicitly don’t allow botting in the rules, so I’d be very surprised if they decided to take exception to their own rule.
I did see one example of possible botting, which was the Multiverse ball that was at the top right (now taken over and covered by a different artwork). They have very, very few users on their instance, yet their fairly large ball design was completed and filled extremely quickly, within the first two or three hours.
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
I might be going crazy - is the colour picker getting the colour from the template or the actual value? If it’s from the template, then we might be slightly off colour with the flag of the indigenous peoples of the americas… Or I’m totally missing something.
It’s also kind of annoying, that the templates can be overlapping. Is there a way to get separate templates? (I don’t mean our templates)
The template color is oddly lighter/faded compared to the colors I picked out when drawing it. I based it on the flag design at the very bottom of the article Vegafjord linked, which matches the colors y’all ended up going with really well :)
I think the red in the flag is slightly different than the template but maybe more accurate to the flag?
Yep.
I also just found out, that it depends on the settings - the “template style” source and one-to-one look differently to me, and I don’t know which one is supposed to do what
Have you lowered the transparency of the template? Maybe that could help.
Yes, same effect. I’ll just ignore it for now :D As long as everyone else says it’s looking nice I’m fine with it. Just wanted to make sure I’m not missing something
~6 hours after my last screenshot and this is pretty nice
26 hours to go
23 hours to go
Looking around the canvas, slrpnk seems really well developed at the quarter-mark. Good job, gang!
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 :)
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?
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! ^^
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
I like the idea with the plants! But I’m not sure if I’m capable of coming up with a template
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.
Oops I didn’t read the whole post when I placed my first one and put one pixel of the lettering :(
No worries! I made those 20% guides without knowing that the built-in template feature with opacity was even a thing, so I figured that’d help people figure out how to assemble it without getting overwhelmed. I was even going to put in the exact coordinates of the first pixel that we’d start building it from.
Then one of the furries told me about the template thing, which pretty much invalidated the need for those step-by-step guides 😅
Makes it a lot easier than I was thinking it’d be :p
I kind of like it emerging in a certain order for timelapse purposes though! Happy accidents
True! that would be pretty neat to see :)
The link shows both templates overlapping, is that intended?
Edit: it’s fixed, thanks!
And thank you for joining in and helping tonight, Fantom! ^^
I didn’t realize how critical this early phase was in establishing ourselves, but with your help and the help of the furry communities, I think we’ll make it into the morning.
No worries, and it’s morning for me, Belgium represent! I just happened to open my phone at the right time and thought, why not? Why shouldn’t I solarpunk it up? 😁
Also I was thinking whether we should add a .net anywhere? Or the full word solarpunk?
Hmm, we could try adding a .net outside the logo after the PNK, just as letters.
I’m a bit hesitant to add it the template file in fear that the new size might mess up the positioning of the overlay, but we could try to add it unofficially anyway and see what happens :)
And good morning! 😄
Yeah it’s bit finicky to move them with X/Y coordinates, so it took me a few tries to get it right. A different group was muscling into our original spot, so the Furries suggested we move over to this new spot. (and I just want to mention how invaluable their help and advice has been, they’re even pulling people away from their projects to help us build up our claim. Absolutely amazing folk).
Unfortunately, I’m getting an error when trying to load the template. Maybe it’s a compatibility thing with my browser. Thanks for making the 20% increment templates. I’m using those now lol
I think it needs WebGL enabled to work, which LibreWolf keeps off by default (if that’s what you’re usin’).
I was able to selectively enable it in Librewolf by clicking the little sliders icon to the left of your address bar (sorta within it, squeezed between the shield icon and the bar). If that isn’t an option, you may need to enable WebGL in the browser’s settings window first.
And hey! Glad to have you with us! :D
I’ll try that fix. And am happy to be here :D
