Comic Draw by plasq

One of my favorite apps that I use all the time, but I wish there was an option to edit the speech bubbles more. It’s one of the easiest and many ways to reinforce the message or mood of what the character is saying/thinking. I want to be able to break the speech bubble into two parts (while they’re still merged), or be able to make the tail go inwards for off panel speeches. Also, when the character is yelling, I wish that there wasn’t just a spiky variety for the bubble but one where I can make the spikes more curvy. With being able to edit the bubbles, it can add so much: wavy speech bubbles for weak or fading speeches or black speech bubbles for negative emotions, etc. Since there are only limited speech bubble designs, I usually draw the speech bubbles myself, but even the option to just add text (without a speech bubble) is also very limited and stays in italics (compared to adding text inside a bubble). This is honestly the only critique I have from using this amazing app and I hope these features can be added.

I recently ran a successful Kickstarter to fund my first comic book. Originally, I planned to draw everything by hand, scan the artwork, then color everything in Photoshop. But after taking Comic Draw for a serious test drive, I now realize I can do all that (and more) directly on my iPad Pro. This app has opened up a whole new world for me creatively. Thank you, Plasq!!! My only suggestions for the app are minor (and not worth subtracting a star, so I’m still giving it five stars). For instance I’d love to see the same “snap to grid” functionality for drawing comic boxes on the lettering layer that you have on the pencil and inking layers. I’d like to have a more sophisticated color picker that lets us choose specific RGB, CMYK and HEX values for colors, and so on. But even if the lack of certain features (such as a more robust color picker) keep you from using this app as an all-in-one solution, it’s still a powerful tool to integrate somewhere into your workflow. Currently, because I’m running Comic Draw on an iPad Pro, I’m able to create full-sized pages at 600dpi, with up to 11 layers, and export them as Photoshop files. And drawing on the iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil is a DREAM!!!

I drafted a full length graphic novel using Comic Draw and it has amazing capabilities. I can easily import my own images, add custom fonts by using AnyFont, and the brushes and pencils are great. The support team is highly responsive and receptive to input. What is still evolving is the compatibility with Adobe programs that would make this more useful for professionals working with editors and printers. I would like to be able to import/export layered files easily to Photoshop and InDesign and be able to edit text there, have large files be less glitchy, manually organize and stack projects as in Procreate, and make the user interface just a bit smoother e.g., when creating panels (sometimes they snap to the wrong place), trying to delete things that were mistakenly pasted on the caption layer, etc. I’m confident these things will be worked out over time... It’s really freeing to be able to do so much with the Apple Pencil and it would have taken me much longer to finish drafting my project without Comic Draw. Love this program and it is worth every penny.

I’ve noticed it’s similar to Procreate but I definitely prefer the layout of this over Procreate tbh. There’s so much potential in it. I started using this for my first comic and I’m really enjoying the process of organizing my panels. I sincerely hope this app sticks around for a long time and hopefully builds up and becomes more efficient than it is. I do have one problem with this app. It’s simply the fact that the paint bucket tool doesn’t seem to recognize other layers as a boundary. Perhaps it’s my line art not completely filling the gaps but even when I’ve tried working around this by drawing sections of color that are the same as a fill, the bucket just goes over the shape and colors areas I don’t want it to. Maybe there’s already a way around this that I haven’t figured out yet. But I say this because filling up sections with color make things less tedious for me instead of drawing in color to fill my line art. Other programs like photoshop and krita recognize this, and I was hoping to find something like that here.

Ok I originally thought that you could just log in get started bla bla bla but no you cannot do any of that because you need to get another version I mean what’s really the point of making a free one but you still have to pay money to use it forever? Just make it so you don’t have to use this one for no reason. Yes you can use the free trial but that’s not even a month and trust me some people will not even finish making there comic before it ends because it takes a lot of thinking to make a nice one and people will wanna show there friends how nice there comic is but nothing’s colored in and there friends will problaby think it’s nice design but they might suggest that you color it in to make it more cooler at know to make it look nice and stand out. Now the thing that I should have said first make it so the other one you have all the things and this one just the basic coloring tools like a pencil,coloring pencils and like markers or like the shades of colors just make simple and stuff just suggesting though. Pls read this :l