One connected workspace
Keep sketches, pages, model sheets, storyboards, and references inside the same visual project.
Free professional drawing app for macOS
Create comics, illustrations, and animations.
Velika is a free professional drawing app for desktop. Paint with natural brushes, organize pages and storyboards, and keep every layer ready for revision.
Thousands of free brushesNo account requiredLocal project files
VELIKA
One studio for the complete visual project
ComicsIllustrationConcept artAnimationStoryboards
A better production workflow
One project should not feel like five different apps.
Most drawing tools are organized around one canvas at a time. Velika is designed for the whole visual project—from the first sketch and model sheet to pages, storyboards, revisions, and final delivery.
Characters stay consistent
Pin the visual rules that matter—costumes, proportions, palettes, locations, and scene notes.
Everything stays editable
Preserve layers, masks, selections, and revisions instead of accepting a flattened result.
Built for long sessions
Customize shortcuts, presets, panels, and pen behavior around the way you actually draw.
VELIKA
Project Memory
Keep the character sheet beside the canvas.
Characters, scene notes, world rules, and visual decisions remain attached to the project, so the next page starts with the same understanding as the last one.
Create end to end
From first sketch to final sequence.
A professional art tool for the three forms that visual storytellers move between every day.
Illustration
Sketch, ink, paint, composite, and finish with a deep brush and layer system.
Comics
Plan pages, keep model sheets close, and move through sequential work without losing the drawing flow.
Animation
Move from painted key poses to frame-by-frame animation without changing creative tools.
A serious painting engine
The brush should disappear under your hand.
Natural brush response, precise pen input, layers, masks, color management, and familiar file workflows stay at the center of Velika.
Expressive brush engines
Layers, masks & blending
Pressure-sensitive input
Non-destructive revision
VELIKA
Made for the drawing desk
Plug in. Pick up. Paint.
Use a pressure-sensitive pen display with your Mac and keep the full studio close to your drawing hand. Windows and Linux builds are part of the multi-platform roadmap.
macOS preview · Windows planned · Linux planned
Free by default
Start drawing before creating an account.
Open Velika and paint. The core drawing workflow is free, local, and ready whenever inspiration arrives.
No login for painting
Create, save, and reopen local projects without signing in.
Thousands of free brushes
Start with a broad professional toolkit, then tune and organize it around your own hand.
Editable by default
Keep artwork layered and revision-ready throughout the production process.
Long projects stay organized
Bring pages, references, characters, and scene notes into one coherent project.
Questions
Start with a blank canvas, not a commitment.
Yes. The core desktop drawing workflow is free and does not require an account. Optional connected services may have separate limits or plans later.
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.