![]() I have a old version of a Wacom Cintiq (12″) and can sketch with that thing for days. I may be the only one in this camp but to me I can move faster and more confidently with a paper and pencil. For now I will continue to do my initial sketch on paper, take a photo of it with the iPad and then work from there. I have heard you can buy a protective screen cover that gives the pen a bit of resistance. The smooth tip of the pen and glass surface of the screen is not my favourite. The actual hardware is what frustrates me. The software feels a bit unnatural and sticky but that is not my biggest gripe. The more I played with it the less I agree with my original statement. Initially I thought sketching was really good and responsive. I strongly recommend this for anyone with and Procreate or curious about it. A simple search query such as “Fill an object in procreate” or “Layer management in procreate” got me up to speed really quick and made me a power user quick. With an unfamiliar interface in front of me and nobody to ask I decided to head to YouTube. Once I wrapped my head around the idea that this wasn’t Photoshop but more of a re-imagining/mobile touch version of it skewing heavily towards digital painting. Procreates approach is to give you more real estate to draw with and only surface tools when you need them. ![]() I started poking around and quickly found out that Procreate wasn’t problem it was my frame of mind. My first impression of the interface was “meh.” I looked around and said “how could this do what I want it to do?” The toolset seems limited and unfamiliar. Hopefully the project layer number will go up with the next generation iPad Pro and its faster chipset. Which is fine, I just have to be aware of my layer management as I build my illustration. The maximum canvas size I was able to work with was 18″ x 24″ but that limits me to only 9 layers. This is an assumption but I think in order to ensure the iPad processor doesn’t get bogged down, Procreate limits your projects layers (larger the canvas size, less layers you will be given). After I switched to this rather large canvas size I have yet to run into that problem I had in the past. I know this is much lager than most people work but it has messed me up in the past, needing to enlarge an image and not having a larger enough graphic to do so. In programs like Adobe Photoshop, I like to build my canvas at 18″ x 24″ 600dpi. So, here is my first skeptical moment with the software. This burned me really early on and formed a very negative opinion about the hardware. I found that if you don’t do some research up front you can get discouraged pretty quickly by the piles of garbage programs with odd interactions, unrealistic feel and cluttered canvases. ![]() I am not saying Procreate is the only software to use with the iPad Pro but for digital painting I’m in love with it. Then I was given the opportunity to actually spend some REAL time with the iPad Pro, Apple pencil and Procreate. I tried it for a few minutes and flat out declared that no person who actually creates art regularly is going to use this thing. Right off the bat, I want to say that I was the guy talking crap about the iPad Pro.
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