Review game art with notes drawn where they apply.

Circle the sun that makes the sky too busy, box the arches that compete with the lighthouse, point an arrow at the one lantern that should stay warm, and write each note beside its mark. Approve the deliverable, send it back for changes or reject it: each decision says who made it and when, and the outsourcer gets one sheet with everything.

Start free Open the art bible

Sample art from Saltmarrow, a fictional project made to show Nodary.

Every picture gets one decision, signed

The Pictures page gathers every picture in the workspace, a project or one document: moodboard references, gallery images, single images and pictures pinned on boards. Approve, send back for changes or reject, with a note on what to redo. Each decision records who made it and when, and a new version of the picture goes back to undecided, so an old verdict never passes for a new image.

Decide from the keyboard: A approves, C sends back, R rejects, U undoes
Filter by decision, tag or words, and share the review as a link
Compare version 2 with version 3 using a divider or side by side, and restore either
Mirror the picture with M, and read its values in grey, then 5, 3 and 2 levels, with V

What it does not do Pictures are PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP or AVIF files up to 50 MB. A .psd is attached as a file, not a picture you can draw on.

Nodary’s Pictures page for the Saltmarrow workspace: every picture with its decision (approved, changes asked, rejected), filters by decision and tag, and the review panel open on key art v1, sent back by Idris Okafor with the note "Too busy: lose the sun, keep one lantern glow."

One feedback sheet for the outsourcer

From the Pictures page or the export menu, a document’s feedback sheet lists each picture that has feedback: its open notes, numbered as in the viewer and drawn on the picture, the replies, and the decision with what to redo, who decided and when. Print it or save it as a PDF from your browser. It lays out on A4, never splits a picture across two pages, and stays light whatever your theme.

Circles, arrows and strokes drawn on each picture, numbered as in the viewer
Resolved notes leave the sheet, and the others keep their numbers
Pictures pinned on a board appear in the board’s order
Add the document’s other pictures, still to decide, with one tick

What it does not do The outsourcer receives the sheet as a PDF. There is no PowerPoint version of the sheet yet, and no delivery link where someone without an account reads feedback and uploads new versions.

A printable feedback sheet for the Saltmarrow key art: each picture with its numbered notes drawn on it, the decision and who made it, and every comment and reply beside it.

References that say why they are on the board

A moodboard holds references with a caption, a credit, a source link, tags and a note on why each one is kept, and each is approved or rejected with the name of who decided. A concept can name the picture it comes from, painted over it, after it, as a variant or as an iteration, and that lineage reads both ways. Start an art bible from the Art Bible template, or a Character Art Sheet, an Asset Spec or a Biome Identity.

Caption, credit, source and a note on each reference
Trace a concept back to the reference it was painted over
Pull the main colours of the references into the board’s palette
Pin references on a board, next to the notes and arrows they inform

What it does not do Nodary keeps and reviews the pictures you upload; it does not generate images or search the web for references.

The Saltmarrow art bible’s moodboard in Nodary: eight painted references with their captions, credits and art direction decisions, seven approved and the busier first key art rejected with a note.

Hold every picture to the bible’s palette

A palette block names up to 48 colours, each with a role and a note on its use. It grades the text and background pairs you choose for contrast, shows the palette in values and as players with colour blindness see it, and exports CSS variables, JSON, .gpl for GIMP, Krita and Aseprite, and .ase for Photoshop and Illustrator. In the viewer, the Palette button checks a picture against it: how much of the image stays within the palette, and which colours stray, lighter or darker, more or less saturated, or shifted in hue.

Give each colour a role: background, accent, text, highlight, shadow
Contrast graded AAA, AA or not enough, with an Aa preview
Protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia views name the colours that merge
A mask greys out what fits the palette, so stray colours stand out

What it does not do The check compares colours within a tolerance you choose, since light and shadow shift them. It does not judge shapes, style or composition.

Saltmarrow core palette

Export

Ink navy
Background
Lightness 21
Night planks and the deepest shadows
Deep sea teal
Surface
Lightness 36
Sky and open water
Night teal
Secondary
Lightness 30
Upper sky, fog in shadow
Oxidised rust
Accent
Lightness 44
The lighthouse; the only saturated mid-tone
Lit rust
Highlight
Lightness 65
Rust where the low sun or a lantern touches it
Bone white
Text
Lightness 91
Salt towers in light; never pure white
Lantern glow
Accent
Lightness 80
One per scene

Hard to tell apart: Deep sea teal / Night teal

Contrast

Bone white on Ink navy13.7:1AAA
Lantern glow on Deep sea teal5.7:1AA
Bone white on Oxidised rust6.2:1AA

Present the review board frame by frame

A board holds notes, shapes, frames, arrows, document cards and pictures, and its pictures take decisions like any other. Present walks through its frames full screen. Teammates choose to follow you and land on each frame as you move, and leave to look around whenever they like.

Frames play in reading order, row by row
F for full screen, and a numbered bar to jump between frames
Followers can stop following and follow again at any time

What it does not do No laser pointer or presenter notes, and frames play in the order they sit on the board rather than one you set.

The Saltmarrow art review board presented frame by frame in Nodary: the first frame shows the approved key art with its note, and the frame list at the bottom names the crew, the Drowned Archivist and the world.

Agents look at the picture before they comment

Over MCP, an agent sees each picture with the notes already drawn on it, checks it against the bible’s palette, and pins its own notes with circles and arrows. It decides only when you ask: every decision it makes is signed in the name of the person who connected it, and rewriting a document can never forge who decided. The art review prompt runs the whole pass from one request. MCP is included in every plan.

Connect an agent

You askFind the Saltmarrow key art deliverables still waiting for a decision, check each one against the art bible palette, and circle where the colours drift. Give me a list of decisions to make, and do not approve anything yet.

Tools it calls

get_art_review
find_pictures
get_image
check_palette
add_comment
update_pictures
feedback_sheet
extract_palette

Questions

How do I send art feedback to an outsourcer who has no account?

Send the document’s feedback sheet. It shows each picture with its numbered notes drawn on it, the replies, and the decision with what to redo, and it prints or saves as a PDF from the browser. A delivery link where outsourcers read feedback and upload without an account does not exist yet.

Can I draw on an image to show what to change?

Yes. In the image viewer, Draw gives a circle, an arrow, a pencil and a box in five colours, and the first stroke opens the note it belongs to. Notes are numbered on the picture, and circles, boxes and arrows can be placed from the keyboard too.

Does Nodary keep earlier versions of an image?

Replacing a picture keeps the earlier file as a version, up to 12 per picture. You compare a version with the current one using a divider or side by side, and restore it without losing anything. Notes stay on the version they were written on, and the decision goes back to undecided.

Which files can I review?

Pictures in PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP and AVIF up to 50 MB, with notes drawn on them. Videos and sounds take notes at a moment, and glTF 3D models take notes pinned on a point of the model. Other files, such as a .psd, are attached as files, without notes drawn on them.

Can I review animation in Nodary?

You can leave a note at a moment of a video, such as "at 0:12, the cape goes through the arm", and choosing the note pauses the clip on that moment. You cannot yet draw on a video frame, and there is no shared playback where the team watches in sync.

Can an AI agent review game art?

An agent connected over MCP finds the pictures waiting for a decision, looks at each one with its notes drawn, checks it against your palette and pins notes of its own. When you ask, it approves, sends back or rejects, and the decision is signed in your name. MCP is included in every plan.

Run the next art review in one place.

Start free with two members and one project, no card needed. Or open the live demo first.