Brushes that feel alive
Tune size, texture, flow, opacity, spacing, rotation, scatter, blending, and pressure response for your own hand.
Digital painting · Comics · Animation
Built for drawing. Ready for production.
Velika combines a responsive canvas with brush engines, freehand inking stabilizers, scene assistants, non-destructive editing, and the project tools that serious visual work needs.
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A canvas that keeps up with your hand.
Professional brush engines, precise pen response, a distraction-free canvas-only mode, editable layers, color control, and flexible workspaces remain the center of Velika.
Layers built for revision
Combine paint and clone layers, layer styles, groups, blend modes, filter masks, and transform masks for non-destructive editing in complex files.
Color you can trust
Use a color-managed workflow with powerful filters, selection and colorizing tools, professional selectors, palettes, gradients, and proofing tools.
Natural pen input
Use freehand inking stabilizers, scene-construction assistants, pressure curves, and customizable shortcuts with a drawing tablet or pen display.
Sequential art workspace
Manage comic book projects while keeping storyboards, scenes, characters, and the current page visible in one connected workspace.
Frame-by-frame animation
Sketch motion, use onion skinning, organize frames, and paint animation with the same tools as your illustrations.
Why another drawing app?
Powerful tools still leave comic artists stitching the workflow together.
Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop are capable professional products. Velika's opportunity is to keep their depth while removing the setup and project fragmentation creators repeatedly describe.
Clip Studio Paint
What already works
Deep comic features, vector inks, materials, 3D figures, lettering, and multi-page management.
Where creators report friction
Creators report a steep interface learning curve, time spent finding and installing materials, tedious 3D posing, and lag in demanding brush or model scenes.
Velika's product direction
Curate essential assets in the app, make pose and background setup immediate, and keep the whole project's context visible beside the canvas.
Adobe Photoshop
What already works
Industry-standard image editing, compositing, color control, brushes, and PSD collaboration.
Where creators report friction
It is a general image editor rather than a comic production system, so paneling, lettering, story organization, references, and page status often span several tools.
Velika's product direction
Keep serious image editing while treating pages, panels, balloons, locations, characters, and revisions as first-class project objects.
Community reports are qualitative and individual experiences vary. Product concepts are roadmap direction, not current availability. Clip Studio Paint and Adobe Photoshop are trademarks of their respective owners; Velika is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Project Memory
Every page knows where it belongs.
Keep characters, scenes, references, and visual decisions connected to the artwork instead of rebuilding the project around every new canvas.
Project Memory
Keep recurring characters, locations, story rules, and visual direction attached to the project instead of scattered across folders.
Connected production
Move from story notes to model sheets, screenplay, storyboard, and comic pages without rebuilding context; Python scripting is part of the extensibility roadmap.
Local-first by design
The free painting loop stays usable without an account or network connection; cloud features remain explicit.
Compatible by intention
Keep the files that already matter.
Velika's project format is designed to hold pixels, layers, references, page structure, and revision history together. PSD and other widely used image and layered file formats remain part of the interchange strategy.
Community preview
Draw the next page with Velika.
Join the early Velika community and help shape a professional drawing app made for complete visual projects.