CSS drawing is an art of designing a creative object or drawing with only using CSS codes. It is a fun challenge that shows us what front-end developers can achieve with pure CSS.

Sometime, a css drawing is also added with some animation to make it more interesting.

When I first saw CSS drawings, I didn’t believe that CSS can be used to create such drawings. I thought it was designed by some design apps like Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw until I saw the codes that it was a pure CSS.

Most of the styles in the drawing use the combination of gradients, pseudo-classes (:after and :before), and css3 animations.

Recently, i saw in Twitter #100DaysOfCode that many developers are showcasing their CSS drawings. There were doing amazing work, but i saw that some of them have lack design inspirations.

Since I am a front-end developer as well, I can understand that sometimes we don’t have any idea of what we should make, especially when it is about design or drawing.

I remember that I ever saw many awesome CSS drawings showcased in Codepen. Then, I come to the idea that picking and collecting the best of them will be helpful to provide some inspirations for other developers, especially newbies.

So, in this post, I make a list of the best CSS drawings that you can use as your inspirations. Let’s have a look!

Best CSS Drawing Examples

1. At The Wall | Pure CSS Drawing by Atanas Atanasov

2. The king and the fly by Alvaro Montoro

3. Tron Skyline by Jordy Rue

4. Street View & Car Animation by Mohammed Alozaibi

5. Codevember Day 23: pure CSS drawing, life of a programmer! by Nooray Yemon

6. The Boy and his Drone by Tucker Massad

7. CSS Lighthouse (Pure CSS Drawing/Animation) by Tucker Massad

8. The Flying Robot (Pure CSS Drawing/Animation) by Tucker Massad

9. Kitty and The Submarine (Pure CSS Drawing/Animation) by Tucker Massad

10. CodePen Home Night Train CSS drawing + animation by Eina O

11. Pure CSS Responsive French Press by Dario Corsi

12. Tank All The Things by Hugo Giraudel

13. Pure CSS Mini Thor by Matheus Ferreira

14. Electric Piano by Josh Fry

15. CSS Illustration - Xbox Controller by Ellie

16. Pure CSS Watch by Ellie

17. Digital Radio by Ellie

18. City | Pure CSS Drawing by Serg

19. Save and Love your Home by Ahmad Shadeed

20. For Beatrix by Paolo Duzioni

21. Coderbits Logo in Pure CSS by Aleks

22. Our Happy Place by Paolo Duzioni

23. SNES Controller by Time Pietrusky

What You Can Do With A Single Div

In this section, you will see the list of CSS Drawings that not only use a pure CSS but also only use a single div tag.

24. Single Div CSS Tesla Cybertruck by Lynn Fisher

25. Single Div CSS Book Search by Lynn Fisher

26. Pure CSS Single Div Up House by Patricia Masigla

27. Single Div Accordion Animated by Dan Wilson

28. Pure CSS Wall-E by Peter Butcher

29. K2SO by Jon Kantner

30. Single Div CSS - Camera by Laura Louise

31. Single Div Challenge by yuanchuan

32. The Eye by Melissa Cabral

33. Single Div Violin by Tricia Katz

34. Single Div Grace Hopper by Tricia Katz

35. Single Div Tea Cup by Tricia Katz

36. Single div icons by Chris Ota

37. Codevember 2016: Sunset by Smokie Lee

Beginner Friendly

38. Pure CSS Emoji faces by Abou Bakr Magdy

39. Avocados pure CSS by Julie Park

40. Pure CSS Drawing Dexter by Chi Ho Liu

41. Sleeping Cat by Anastasia Goodwin

42. A Slice of cake by Paolo Duzioni

43. Hijabi Girl by Norhan_ms

44. Apeach (Kakao Friends) by zinee

45. Penguin CSS Drawing by Alexander D. Cardossi

46. Pure CSS Cactus by Kara Luton

47. Pure CSS Gamerica Logo by Hugo Giraudel

48. CSS Sagwa by Jasmine Wright

49. Full CSS Penguin by fanchou

50. Cheshire by Nicolas Slatiner

51. Bonus : A Collection of Single Div CSS Drawing Project by Lynn Fisher

That’s all. If you know other examples that are not be included here, feel free to suggest them in the comment below!