Ekakiba: Manga & Pixel Art

Ekakiba is a drawing app where you choose where to draw: Canvas, Pixel Art or Manga Draft. On iPad with Apple Pencil, pressure and tilt shape every line. On iPhone, draw with your finger. ■ Manga Draft Start from a panel layout (4-panel strip, 3 or 4 tiers, big panel, 2 tiers, or none), or make your own: draw a line to split a panel (slanted lines work too), or drag out a rectangle to add one. Gutters are spaced for you. Every page begins with a Sketch layer and an Inks layer, and the brush switches for you: a light-blue pencil for sketching, a black G-pen for inking. Fade or hide the sketch with one tap to check your inks. • Balloons and dialogue: tap to place a balloon and type the lines. Round, box (narration), burst (shout) and cloud (thought). Drag to move. Japanese text sets vertically. • Screentone: tap an enclosed area to apply dots or hatching. It stays inside the panel border.…