
I’ve used this for drawing solidly for 2+ hours in coach, and didn’t have any tiredness, or muscle pain. The iPad Pro is big, but treads lightly. It’s not bulky, and when drawing I can easily rest it on my lap and hold it up with one hand, whilst drawing with the other. My first sketch in Paper by FiftyThree with the Pencil on the iPad Pro How does the larger size affect the iPad Pro? This is a serious piece of kit that will find a central place in an illustrators workflow – but it will not replace a desktop. So that’s software, not hardware – and I expect the app store will get a lot more firepower very quickly once developers really get to grips with the Pro.

The last 5% is due to the pieces that Procreate doesn’t do, that Photoshop does – text, labels, some of the more advanced features. In many respects, this is better than working in Photoshop on my Mac. I would have settled for the iPad Pro being a really nice sketching tool – but what I’ve discovered is that the iPad Pro, the Pencil, and Procreate, get me 95% to a final illustration, and quicker than I would get there on my desktop.

At $949 for the 128Gb iPad Pro, and $99 for the Apple Pencil – this could be a very expensive paper weight.Īfter a week I’m hooked.

A 15 minute sketch with Pencil and an iPad Pro, in the Apple Store, using Adobe Sketchġ5 minutes trying it out in the store had me intrigued – so last weekend I picked it up. When I saw the iPad Pro come out, I was skeptical. Paper was by far the best app for the iPad, because it threw precision out the window, and accepted what the iPad is – a sketchpad rather than a professional illustration tool. I picked up all the art apps, and a range of styluses – from the Adonit Jot Touch Pro ( my thoughts here), to 53’s Pencil – with 53’s Paper. I bought the second generation iPad, hoping it would do the trick. I’ve always wanted a tablet I could use for illustration.
