An Illustrators Review of the i. Pad Pro and Apple Pencil. Ive always wanted a tablet I could use for illustration. I bought the second generation i. Pad, hoping it would do the trick. I picked up all the art apps, and a range of styluses from the Adonit Jot Touch Pro my thoughts here, to 5. Pencil with 5. 3s Paper. Paper was by far the best app for the i. Pad, because it threw precision out the window, and accepted what the i. Pad is a sketchpad rather than a professional illustration tool. When I saw the i. International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications IJERA is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research. Pad Pro come out, I was skeptical. A 1. 5 minute sketch with Pencil and an i. Pad Pro, in the Apple Store, using Adobe Sketch. I picked it up. I was more than a little nervous. At 9. 49 for the 1. Gb i. Pad Pro, and 9. Ive always wanted a tablet as a professional art tool. Ive spent a week with my iPad Pro and Pencil and in many ways this is better than a Wacom Cintiq. Spark Your Imagination Just starting out and finding your own style Intuos Draw makes creating fun. Draw, paint, and edit with an easy to use pen tablet. ArtistiBndiCetjussa jo olevat nimet TARKISTETAAN tst koosteesta parasta aikaa auki olevasta sikeest. ArtistiBndiCetjua JATKETAAN viimeksi avatussa. Use-PaintTool-SAI-Step-4.jpg/aid6713085-v4-728px-Use-PaintTool-SAI-Step-4.jpg' alt='Paint Tool Sai Mac Download With Pen Pressure Paint' title='Paint Tool Sai Mac Download With Pen Pressure Paint' />Apple Pencil this could be a very expensive paper weight. After a week Im hooked. Mac-photo-editing-tool-PixelStyle.jpg' alt='Paint Tool Sai Mac Download With Pen Pressure Paint' title='Paint Tool Sai Mac Download With Pen Pressure Paint' />This, finally, is the device that makes drawing on a tablet painless. Heres what I picked up 1. Gb i. Pad Pro with wireless I didnt get cellular if Im sitting down, theres wifi. I dont need a monthly plan for something I dont use when Im walkingApple Pencil  theres a wait for it online, but check your local store, they may well have it. Apple keyboard not reviewed here, because Ive hardly used it which I guess is telling all on its ownQuick verdict Is it any good I would have settled for the i. Pad Pro being a really nice sketching tool but what Ive discovered is that the i. Pad Pro, the Pencil, and Procreate, get me 9. I would get there on my desktop. In many respects, this is better than working in Photoshop on my Mac. I never expected to say that. The last 5 is due to the pieces that Procreate doesnt do, that Photoshop does text, labels, some of the more advanced features. So thats 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. This is a serious piece of kit that will find a central place in an illustrators workflow but it will not replace a desktop. My first sketch in Paper by Fifty. Three with the Pencil on the i. Pad Pro. How does the larger size affect the i. Pad Pro The i. Pad Pro is big, but treads lightly. Its 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. Ive used this for drawing solidly for 2 hours in coach, and didnt have any tiredness, or muscle pain. I couldnt even say that about the i. Pad 2 which somehow felt more cumbersome than this. The screen is beautiful, crisp, and bright. The thickness of the glass is basically unnoticeable. This is a lovely refinement for general use, but its key for illustration. If the glass has a visible offset from the screen, then your drawing precision changes with your viewing angle. Not here, the pen tip looks like its right on your illustration. It does take a while to charge no great surprise given that a lot of the extra size is given to a larger battery. Many reviews say that this can last for days. I dont agree. Using Procreate and the Pencil which uses Bluetooth, and increases screen sampling rates the battery dropped to 2. If youre using this heavily, youll be charging this every night but that workflow is fine for me. The one hardware niggle I found was that when I leave it plugged in overnight it sometimes requires a hard restart to wake up. Thats surprising, but may just be my one. My first attempt at a map in Procreate. The Pencil gives great precision, and using the side allows for natural shading. Is the Pencil a good stylus Im a stylus snob. Ive used a bunch from the different Wacom styluses, to the Pencil by 5. Adonit Jot Touch Pro. The Pencil is very different from all of these. The others are all somewhat chunky. Wacom styluses have a wide textured grip, the Pencil by 5. Adonit has a textured grip. The classic styluses also have buttons to allow for right and left click mouse options. The Pencil by Apple is shaped exactly as it is says it is like a simple pencil. The shape and size are exactly what youd expect, and the material is a smooth plastic. No buttons, no textured grip. This makes it very easy to manipulate, but it does lack a little bit of grip. Ive found my hand sliding along it whilst drawing. However, thats actually not a bad thing. Theres a limit to the pressure needed to make a mark on the i. Pad, and Id rather my hand slipped along the barrel of the pencil, than apply too much pressure. Its a small thing, and has been easy to get used to. The pencil has a good weight to it, and a good balance. If anything its slightly weighted towards the back, which makes it sit well in my hand. To charge, you slip off the eraser end, and theres a lightning connector that hooks straight into the i. Pad. You can get a decent charge in 1. Theres also an adapter that allows you to hook that to a USB cable for more standard charging options. But Ill just lose that so Ill keep charging mine straight off the i. Pad. Id expected the back end to double as an eraser a hangover from using Wacoms and 5. Pencil. No luck here, the back is just the back. The tip is about 1. It slides over the i. Pad screen easily, with none of the scratchiness of the Adonits metal tip but with proper precision. The tip is hard you know exactly where it is at all times. This is what differentiates it from the soft foam tips of existing styluses. This is the kind of precision I expect from my Wacoms, and this delivers that. Unlike the Wacom, the whole 1. This becomes interesting when you tilt the Pencil over and shade as if you were using the side of the lead. I assume that whole 1. Pencil adapted applications. It generates a broader mark, with a direction to it just as with the side of an actual pencil. When shading, this is a very natural action to take, and it Just Works. My first serious attempt at a map in Paper by Fifty. Three. It worked well, but this is the wrong tool for precision illustration. Click for a larger version and feel free to use CC BY NC SADoes the Apple Pencil work as a precision stylus My bugbears with styluses are lagjittery pressure sensitivity, so that you can see the linewidth change as you press harder, rather than having a smooth response to pressureoffset between the line and the tip. Apple has created a stylus with none of these problems, which places it squarely at the top of my list. This is as good as my Intuous in terms of responsiveness and better than the Wacom Cintiq I tried. Ive been told that you can calibrate the Cintiq to get past those issues, but here I dont have to calibrate anything. It just works. I cant find published specs on levels of pressure sensitivity of the Apple Pencil but given the smoothness of the response Id bet money on at least 1. The lack of lag is a minor miracle. Previous styluses using bluetooth connections have been plagued with visible lag between large sweeping line movements, and the screen response. Sql Server Developer Edition 2005. Here Apple has weighted the deck in their own favour. When its taking data from the Pencil, the i. Pad samples at 2. This is compared to 6. Pads. The result is a seamless drawing experience. Previous styluses have been good. But this does it right. Theres no learning curve, you dont have to get used to it. It just works which is exactly the praise I want to give to a stylus. Can the i. Pad Pro and Pencil create professional grade art This is the big question. Either this is a sketching tool that I can use before bringing it into Photoshop to create a final map or its a professional illustration device. At 13 the price of a Cintiq this is either a very expensive sketch pad, or a very cheap professional grade tablet. In truth its a little bit of both. The limitations come from a combination of hardware and software. Hardware limitations. The model Im using has 1. Gb of space, and all i. Pad Pros have 4. Gb of RAM. This means I can create a letter page full colour map in Procreate with 5. More than enough layers for a professional map at 3.