Comicado Reviews

So... You want to draw pictures, or more specifically, a comic. Well, this software is built around this particular use case. It can also do illistrations, but it's not built around that use case quite as much as it is comics. You have the vitual 'paper' of the page to be drawn. You don't draw directly on this, like in MS paint. You have panels. For an illistration, a panel can be the entire page. When you're making a comic, you'll have more then one, and you can easily resize and move them around a bit after drawing them. It also allows you to distort the whole panel if you want. There's lots of options there. Inside these panels, you have your standard layers, like in everything that's not MS paint. It will take mouse input, so you don't need to buy a $100 tablet (or $250 tablet-equipped laptop) but if you have one, that also works. It has drawing guides, like French Curves for us Drafting people, that let you draw smoothly with either method. Pros: It's cheap, Buy it once and you're done Has some tools very useful for it's inteded application. has figures you can pose to get a sense of scale, this is REALLY nice if you're like me and utterly stink at drawing characters. Has nice export functions, and some limited vector graphics capibility (it's a raster program, so no exporting) Doesn't chew up too much memory, while you're running. A fair decent selection of brushes and the like. Has guides, even mouse drawn stuff can look good. Perspective grid <3 so much less involved for basic outlining of that sort of scene. Cons: The pressure sensitivity for tablets isn't there (at least on the t730 it's not) it also doens't change the cursor to tell you it's getting it's cues from the pen, it's nice for me to have that visual feedback so I know when I can let my palm rest. Editing spines is TEDIOUS. Avoid using them when you can. The toolbars on the sides don't stay inside the window, so it can cover the start bar or end up half offscreen when I rotate the tablet.. It lacks a classical 'ruler' with mm/pixels/inch measurement, it IS nice to have that now and again. Not so much a con as a feature I miss dearly. Could use more figures. A hand is one example I'd love to see added. I tied to add one myself (You can do that!) but it failed miserably. It could use some tutorials, but I know those are slowly coming. Lacks a plugin API that I know about (if it has one, I can think of at least one handy plugin to add, I'd make it myself if need be) All in all, it's not a bad program. I've doodled with it quite a bit, using both the tablet on the laptop, and the desktop, and have yet to have gotten really annoyed at anything. I've gotten faster with it as time goes on. Would (and have) reccommeded it to other artists I know

It takes some getting used to, and I'll be honest, the splines don't work very well for me, but otherwise it's a good little program. There are much better out there, but for $9.99, I'd say it's a good place to start. It does work pretty well with my Wacom tablet at least.

I have 'a lot' of profesional graphics software and this is amazingly powerful for the money. Some features are make it best for comic creation of all of them in terms of SPEED and EASE. Read the manual ! Some aspects of it require some different thinking - panels and boards etc. I put the keyboard shortcuts on a Excel file, which I can share if I find way to post it. Check out Deivanart for can be produced with it.

Honestly quite surprised, bought this on a whim during the sale for 5 euros, and it's really fun to use. Rather simplistic, compared to most things out there, however, there's a few features in here that (to my knowledge) not many other drawing software have. 1. The pose layer Quite the handy tool, you basically create a 'stick figure' which you can pose later on, at any given time, and use it as a body reference. 2. Interactive mirror tool Basically, this is what you need if you suck drawing in symmetry. You can move the mirror around whenver you want it to, so it's not restricted to any 'first time setup'. 3. Interactive rulers You can move and modify your rulers, and even have some basic custom shapes. There's jugipaint on steam, which is basically a follow up to comicado by the same author, which I've tried for reference. It has some more customizing options, but oddly enough, feels more cluttered, and doesn't have the same charm as this. It's also missing some of the features found here, and comes with weird quirks, like not being able to zoom with the scrollwheel (which baffles me, frankly). Essentially they're both quite similar to one another, but there's enough of a difference to make someone choose between them. TL;DR: I like it.

Do I recomment Comicado heck ya I do. before buying Comicado i used Photo Shop but found it lacked descent perspetive tools, so I gave this a shot. My first impression was some rage quitting, but after trying out some of the sparse tutorials I just got blown away At least with the perspective guides, you can with ease set up a frame, with serverel view points, and there are help tools which making ovals and circles way easier to do, you can use help lines, so making a thing like an arch much easier to do. There even is a tool for helping you place any humanoid and even animals. If you want to draw using perspective do not fink twice about buying this. A buddy of mine tried to get on the Corel Painter, which he claimed was the best he ever used, showed him Comicado which he had to admit had way more tools for perspective drawing. If there ever comes and update, with better brushes and better color handeling, this easially actually could be a contender on not just comic making, but but graphic apps.

this application is bullshit. in it you make your comics, scene art and what have you yet there's one key issue... you absolutely CANNOT save anything as any kind of image file. the only thing you can save your creations as is a data file that only this very application can open properly. quite the big fuck up to make for this sort of application.

The pressure sensitivity is really greaat with my tablet (Waom Bamboo) I can do the lightest of storkes through to hardest just as if I was drawing with pencil/pen etc. - Trust me when I say I have tried a LOT of digital art software in my quest to find something that is easy to use and gets the results I want without having to remortgage my home to do it. Personally so far I havent experinced lag with the splines as I noticed some people had commented but there again I havent tried anything complex as yet. I like the layers system, and the UI is simple which I also like, I think I definitely need to play around more with the features in Comicado to familiarise myself with it and probably even longer to realise all the potential in it - and i think there is loads (potential) that you could do and hours of fun to be had. The brushes that come in the pre-sets seem limited at first glance BUT I think you are able to edit them as you want - not sure if there is possibility to import your own custom brushes or not yet I havent tried... Cons- the help and how to's could certainly be a little easier to navigate, I would personally love to see some video tutorials in varying technical difficulties that would be awesome! This is definitely going to be up in my favourites of digital artistic software Just a warning someone mentioned they couldnt draw with their mouse - I would definitely recommend using with a pen/tablet set up which Comicado does state in recommendations

I won't lie, it's not perfect by any means. Once you start it up there are pretty much no tutorials, so you need to figure out a lot for yourself or ask around. That being said, although I wouldn't recommend this as a high end art program or a substitute for one, it works QUITE well for its intended purpose. It has a lot of interesting tools, and it has enough going for it to satisfy any comic or manga artist. And worse case scenario if it doesn't suit your needs, there's no reason you can't start each page on this program then add finishing touches with a more advanced one if you have it. In summation, this isn't photoshop. Not even close. But it will definitely take a few headaches out of the comic and panel making process. I recommend it to anyone who wants to make a comic or web comic but don't want to shell out 100 dollars or more for the means to do so. Having a graphics tablet would definitely help, but of course that's provided you can afford one in the first place.

Great program. I went over to this from PaintTool SAI and it really wasn't that difficult to figure out how the tools or UI worked. This isn't the best beginner program, but it has everything you need to start. For someone who is working on a web comic or illustration, this program has a lot of very powerful and easy to use tools, in addition to a decent variet of basics. Pros: Excellent, fully adjustable perspectives tool Character poser! Lets you adjust and move a skeleton for characters. Rulers! Adjustable straight lines, curved lines and circles. Customizable brushes Cons: Feels a little clunky compared to SAI. Smoothing on the cursor/pen is responsive at 0, but when you draw curves they come out blocky. At max, it feels like your pen is lagging. Very limited "undo" amount. Over all, I feel like it's a great program.

I was a bit unsure if I should buy it or not when I first saw this program. I couldn't find a single review or opinion on the internet or user review in here, but after reading the Community Hub I decided to give it a try, and here what I think about it: Pros: - Weight: It's quite a lightweight program, so older computers can run it. - Perspective tool: It helps a LOT when working on sceneries. You can use up to 3 vanishing points, and it's easy to adjust the angle. - Pose Tool: I was really curious about it, specially since it's something I always missed in other drawing programs and how it would work with angles and perspective, and it work quite nicely. - Panels: They may feel a bit odd at first, but they really help a lot. You draw inside them, and then you can position and adjust them in your comic. - The Developers: Not only they've been helping newbies to the program, giving tips and instructions and making guides on how to use it, they also been listening to the users. - Price: A good program for a fair price, what not like about it? Contras: - The UI: It can be a bit hard to understand on how to use for begginers, but it's not hard once you learn on how to use it (which for me didn't take long, around three to five minutes poking around the program). - Lack of Guides and Tutorials: It's a fairly new program so, which means it's hard to find tutorials and guides on the internet, but as I said earlier, the developers have been of great help with guides and answering users questions. - Tablet - It's highly recommended to have a graphic tablet to use the program, and sadly not everyone have or can afford one. So yeah, I do recommend this program.