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Wacom sketchpad pro review4/3/2023 Out of all the drawing apps I’ve tried on iOS, Procreate 3 is by far the best. These all support copy/paste to clipboard, so working among the apps is pretty painless. I’ll focus on the main apps that I use in my workflow to give you a sense of what is possible. The biggest hurdle is figuring out how to use these new programs to accomplish the same things you did on a desktop OS. There isn’t anything that has feature parity with powerhouses like Photoshop or Illustrator, but there are apps that can create a pro-level illustration or comic from start to finish with no problem. The iPad Pro is Apple’s first iOS device with the “Pro” moniker, so pro level apps are still in their infancy. The short answer is “it depends on what you need”. Can it do everything a professional artist needs? Also, there’s no eraser or place to store the pencil, and the casing is too smooth and prone to rolling off surfaces. The new SP4 pens have a tip with a little more tooth to it so it feels more like drawing on a paper texture. For instance, the pencil tip glides a little too smoothly over the glass of the iPad Pro’s screen for my taste. Wacom supports this too, but I wanted to give it a special shout-out because it’s awesome and gives you results you can’t get on a Surface Pro.Īs great as the drawing experience is, there are a couple things Apple could improve. This lets you do some very natural looking pencil shading. Honorable mention: TiltĪnother feature that the Apple Pencil has that affects the experience is tilt sensitivity. Also, some apps like Procreate 3 will let you adjust the pressure curve inside the app. Apple doesn’t allow you to adjust the pressure curve on a system level, which usually would be a knock against it, but they did such a good job setting a default natural pressure curve that I don’t have a problem with it. The SP3 has 256, which actually isn’t terrible, but it’s noticeable when you are trying to make subtle line width transitions. Pressure sensitivityĪpple has not released the specs for the number for pressure levels the Apple Pencil supports, but it feels comparable to a Cintiq, so my guess would be at least 1024. This gives you more precision when you are drawing, and makes it feel like you are drawing directly on the surface. The iPad Pro and the SP4 both use a technology where the glass is affixed directly to the screen with no gap, so the parallax is greatly reduced. There is about a ½ centimeter separation between the pen tip and the screen on Cintiqs and the SP3, which gives you a disconnect. Parallax is the disconnect between where your stylus touches the screen and actual screen pixels. I haven’t seen any specs listing the polling rate of the SP3 or SP4, but I can tell you anecdotally that the SP3 lags worse than a Cintiq, and the SP4 doesn’t feel much better. The line you are drawing has significantly less lag behind your pen tip and it feels like you are interacting directly with the pixels rather than drawing a path for your brush to follow. The difference between these two numbers is a large part of what makes using the Apple Pencil feel so natural. Wacom’s Cintiqs have a polling rate of 133 htz, while the Apple Pencil has a polling rate of 250 htz. The biggest determining factor in how responsive a stylus feels is the polling rate, or how many times in a second stylus position data can be registered. I knew within 30 seconds that I was going to buy one.įor me, the overall drawing feel of a stylus can be broken out into three metrics: polling rate, parallax and pressure sensitivity. The small lag I’d come to expect from using a digital stylus was gone. Drawing with it feels like drawing on a real sketchpad, and the first time I tried it I was literally taken aback. I will get into specifics of why in a sec, but the gist of it is the Apple Pencil just feels more like a real pencil. I have a Cintiq 21UX and a Surface Pro 3, and have tested the updated versions of those products in stores, and the Apple Pencil blows them away. The question most artists want answered is how well does the drawing experience stack up vs a Cintiq or a Surface Pro ( 3⁄ 4). How does the drawing experience stack up against the competition? If you want a review of the device as a laptop replacement or next-gen tablet, others have done a better job than I could, so please check them out. I’ve been using the iPad Pro for a couple months now, and I’m going to give my impressions strictly from an illustrator/comic artist perspective.
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