Learn how to create drawings using javascript on HTML5 Canvas Course covers basics of how to use Canvas and Draw

The canvas element in HTML5 allows you to create amazing dynamic script based drawings and animations directly within your webpages. Bringing your javascript to life visually drawing free form graphics on a drawing surface.

Canvas is a powerful element with many options. In this course we show you how to use canvas and start drawing onto it using javascript. With over 15 years experience in web development I show you how to use canvas in the real world. Learn the basic concepts of using canvas to draw directly on your web page.

This course is for beginners who want to learn how to use HTML5 better. You will learn how to setup canvas and how to interact with it. I share top resources, links and code snippets to practice and perfect using canvas for web development.

Course covers

starting to draw on the canvas
drawing rectangles and lines
drawing arc and circles
how to implement curves
how to add colors
dashes, lines, and gradients
Popular HTML5 methods
How to add text
creating images on the fly
on page images
scaling, slicing and canvas manipulation
saving and restoring canvas
rotations and custom transformations
Animating your canvas
Source code is included, several challenges with solutions are also included in this course.

Learn how to create your own dynamically generated graphics and cool animations online.

You can use canvas for building graphs, creating animations, games, and image composition.