These video chats together with your children and their mates or kin — through your cellphone or pill, after all — are about to get lots extra festive with new AR face filters and a few new color-in drawings to doodle on. The brand new doodle-able drawings are courtesy of Google Duo’s comparatively new household mode the place the drawer can create artistic endeavors and the recipient can watch as they see it come to fruition, dwell on the road.

Thus far, all canvasses started as clean. However with a latest replace, your favourite artist can now coloration in pre-lined drawings together with a penguin on a sled or a cactus at a celebration.

Different line drawings could also be out there over time. Coloration to your coronary heart’s content material, inside or exterior the traces.

Photographs: Nick

After all, we won’t get out of the vacations with out new face filters for the Christmas season: you may both be a Christmas tree or a reindeer. Take your decide.