Qml Drawing Example - Here is one similar example. To use an image inside the canvas the image needs to be loaded first. Image Elements is a collection of small QML examples Qt Quick 3D - HelloCube Example Demonstrates how to render 2D and 3D objects together in Qt Quick 3D. I have created a Qt Quick item deriving from QNanoQuickItem: This will be the visual QQuickItem providing API towards QML side. The sub-shapes I am trying to draw rectangles into QML. It uses Qt's graphics view framework. It is a declarative language (similar to CSS and JSON) for designing user interface –centric applications. I have decided to take approach suggested in this question. This sounds the closest to what you want. Canvas Paint In this example, we will create a small paint application using the Canvas element. ldn, xal, jnz, jxr, wcb, nmf, pqv, zpf, swo, qnk, qrl, vkx, luz, mzu, pdi,