Drawing to canvas like in paint

Question

I have three arrys:

 clickX = [],
    clickY = [],
    clickDrag = [];

this is what happens when you click down:

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Answer 1

EDIT: Sorry, fixed some typos Edit 2: And again. It's a bit difficult to test.

There's no reason to redraw each of the points each time. You could modify your listener to do this:

var prevMouseX=null,prevMouseY=null;
$('#canvasCursor').mousedown(function (e) {
    paint = true;

    console.log('down');
    //get current mouse coords
    mouseX = e.pageX - this.offsetLeft;
    mouseY = e.pageY - this.offsetTop;

    if (prevMouseX==null) {
        //store these coordinates for next time if they haven't been defined yet
        prevMouseX = mouseX;
        prevMouseY = mouseY;
    }
});

$('#canvasCursor').mousemove(function (e) {
    //get current mouse coords
    mouseX = e.pageX - this.offsetLeft;
    mouseY = e.pageY - this.offsetTop;

    if (prevMouseX==null) {
        //store these coordinates for next time if they haven't been defined yet
        prevMouseX = mouseX;
        prevMouseY = mouseY;
    }

    if (paint) {drawline(mouseX,mouseY,prevMouseX,prevMouseY);}

    //store these coordinates for next time
    prevMouseX = mouseX;
    prevMouseY = mouseY;
});

Where the function drawLine is defined as:

function drawline(x1,y1,x2,y2) {
ctx.strokeStyle = "green";
    ctx.lineJoin = "round";
    ctx.lineWidth = brushSize*2;

    ctx.beginPath();
    ctx.moveTo(x1,y1);
    ctx.lineTo(x2,y2);
    ctx.closePath();
    ctx.stroke();
}