Dry-erase, but it moves
Three Halloween whiteboard ideas in a bold marker style: a trio of jack-o’-lanterns, a spider dangling from its web, and a ghost with a candy bucket. Copy them onto your board in a few minutes, or upload a photo of your own whiteboard drawing and SpeedPainter replays it as a hand-drawn video for a slide, a newsletter or a class screen.
These were rendered with no canvas, so the video draws on the picture’s own white background, which is what makes it read as a whiteboard. A photo of a real board works too if it is evenly lit.
Pencil: sketch time. Palette: color time. Coin: credits used. Every example fits the 10 free sign-up credits.
Three jack-o’-lanterns with happy, surprised and sleepy faces. Two marker colors, five minutes on a real board.
Three jack-o'-lanterns of different sizes sitting together, each with a different simple carved face (happy, surprised, sleepy). Whiteboard marker drawing style: bold black marker outlines with orange marker fill, slightly uneven hand-drawn lines, no gradients. Pure white background. Avoid text, letters, numbers, logos and watermarks.
A big-eyed spider hanging under a corner web. Put the web in the board’s corner and let the spider drop toward your message.
A friendly round spider with big eyes hanging from a single thread below a corner spider web. Whiteboard marker drawing style: bold black marker lines with small purple and green marker accents, slightly uneven hand-drawn lines, no gradients. Pure white background. Avoid text, letters, logos and watermarks.
A smiling ghost carrying a pumpkin bucket of sweets. Works as a reward chart mascot or a sign-up sheet header.
A small smiling ghost floating while holding a pumpkin-shaped candy bucket full of wrapped sweets. Whiteboard marker drawing style: bold black marker outlines, orange and blue marker accents, slightly uneven hand-drawn lines, no gradients. Pure white background. Avoid text, letters, logos and watermarks.
Examples were rendered without branding. Videos made on the free plan carry a SpeedPainter watermark and end card.
Copy one of the drawings onto your board, or download the picture and skip the marker entirely.
Even light, no glare, and crop to the drawing. Reflections and the board frame get traced too.
A 6-second sketch and a 4-second color pass, like the examples, uses 10 credits. Choose a hand tone or none, then download the MP4.
| Input | One PNG or JPG per video, up to 10 MB |
|---|---|
| Output | MP4 in 10 aspect ratios (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 and more), 720p up to 4K (21:9 up to 2K) |
| Timing | A sketch phase and a color phase, up to 5 minutes each. Color at 0 keeps the video line-only |
| Hand and canvas | No hand, or one of 4 hands (three skin tones and a child’s hand). The picture’s own background, a black board or a green board |
| Cost | 1 credit per second of video. 10 free credits when you sign up |
| Free plan | HD output with a SpeedPainter watermark and end card |
| Paid plans | Monthly plans from $19.90, or one-time credit packs from $29.90. Up to 4K, no watermark |
| What it does not do | It does not make pictures from text, and it draws the lines in the order its tracer finds them, not in a teacher’s step order |
Draw the pumpkin trio beside the date and the day’s question for the class.
Add one spider or ghost a day until October 31 and play the video on the last day.
The candy ghost doubles as a potluck sign-up header.
Share the 10-second video at the start of a call instead of a static slide.
For narrated whiteboard videos made from text, use the whiteboard video maker.
Whiteboard video makerDry markers leave gray streaks that the tracer reads as broken lines.
A dark outline first, then orange or purple inside, matches how the video draws: lines, then color.
An angled photo turns circles into ovals. Stand square to the board and fill the frame.
Ceiling lights create a glare stripe on glossy boards. Daylight from the side is best.
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Jack-o’-lanterns, a spider hanging from a corner web, ghosts, bats over a moon, and a simple countdown to October 31. Big shapes in two marker colors are quickest.
There is no separate whiteboard canvas. Choose no canvas and use a picture with a white background: the video then draws on that white, which looks like a whiteboard.
Yes, with SpeedPainter’s explainer video maker, which turns text into a narrated whiteboard video with subtitles. This page covers single drawings.
Glare shows up as gaps in the lines. Retake the photo without the overhead light, or redraw the picture on paper.
One credit per second of video. The 10-second examples above fit exactly into the 10 free credits you get when you sign up.
