Drawing on the New iPad Pro

iPad Pro sketch

We were at Meadowhall today, so I couldn’t resist calling in the Apple Store to try drawing on the new iPad Pro with the new Apple Pencil (the old Apple Pencil isn’t compatible with the new iPad).

It feels as if there’s no delay between the movement of the pencil and the line appearing: apparently they’ve got it down to just a few milliseconds. And they’ve also added a little bit of resistance, presumably to the tip of the pencil, to try to reduce the feeling that you’re drawing on glass.

In the very basic drawing program in Apple Notes, the colour I selected felt like using a large chisel-ended marker pen, but I think the sketches of passing shoppers that I made with the program’s virtual felt-tip pen produced results that would be difficult to distinguish from my efforts the real version of the pen.

Look forward to trying it out with Clip Studio Paint.

1 comment

  1. excellent article!

    Depends on how you use it. I have both a XP-Pen ( https://www.xp-pen.com ) and an iPad Pro, I love the iPad. It is pricey, but honestly it’s so good.

    I use XP-Pen for work because I can use Photoshop and other adobe apps. But I prefer the iPad pro because I like the portability and the ability to use it also as a standalone tablet. Also Procreate is great.

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