Great points. For people who know the past 30 years of digital art tech across platforms, Apple is clearly lagging. Mostly because Steve Jobs was adamant to the point of insanity that no one should use a stylus with the iPad, despite the fact that successful 3rd-party stylus products for the iPad flooded the market after its release. People don't talk about that factor enough, I think. The Apple Pencil was only unveiled after Jobs was gone and likely that's why it's years behind the competition.

If you're considering the 2024 m4 ipad pro get the 1TB/2TB version, it increases RAM to 16GB enabling more layers in your art programs.

Personally I’m very happy with my Apple Pencil 2. It’s the best stylus I have ever used personally but I understand that preferences are different for everyone. I started my digital art journey with a good old iPad 3 and Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus 2, then an old 2009 Bamboo drawing tablet which I plugged in on my laptop, then I got a 2017 iPad pro with the OG Apple Pencil and now I have the 2022 iPad Pro with Apple Pencil 2. The Apple Pencil Pro doesn’t seem that radically different from the Apple Pencil 2, however. They just could have named it Apple Pencil 2+ and make it also compitable with iPad Pro 2018 - 2022 and not just the 2024 series.

My old ipad pro from 2018/19 was transformative to me, but it took me a few years for it to click. Ready for an upgrade and I'm so excited.

2min in “how do you get your ideas from your head onto the page?” I don’t. I cry at my moodboard and close my empty sketchbook. 😂 all jokes aside I don’t go to any other KZbinr anymore. Your long winded videos are so so so insightful for me as a hobbyist.

Tim, this vídeos are amazing, thanks a lot.

I think you almost nailed it. I mean. Actually the iPad Pro lineup is the best tablet that money can buy, for creative works. But, at the same time, it can deliver a full professional workflow only for a very restricted percentage of professionals. I mean. It’s almost perfect for 2D drawing and digital painting for workflows that can live on its own, without the need to go back and forth from/to a desktop class software. Also is perfect for certain 3D sculpting workflows (on apps like Nomad sculpt). For example it’s terrible for serious video editing or audio auditing. It’s terrible for all the things that involves mouse and trackpad and external peripherals and external monitors. iPad Pro lineup it’s for a very narrow percentage of users. Almost useless for the rest.

Any worries of screen burn in? Hopefully (I’m sure) Apple has solved that but imagine procreate ui being left static for hours at a time; little scary.

The main reason I am interested in the new Apple Pencil Pro is because of the barrel role. Thankfully it'll take me a few months to save up for the new M4 with the Apple Pencil Pro and by then hopefully Procreate takes full advantage of the new features of the Apple Pencil Pro.

You're pretty much the only guy I see that has the guts to actually say that apple products are not THAT needed. I think their marketing is so good that people feel like they NEED to buy it to make good art....

I think i am only person who prefers to use ibis paint x than pro create or clip studio?

Don't apologize for the length of this video or that it was "15min till you started drawing." This was a great amount of info and a lot of interesting perspective. Thank you for this video.

In my case, I am looking for a digital tablet that is independent of the computer and that I can use to draw anywhere, whether it's on a trip, on my home couch, or anywhere in the world, without having to be connected to a computer. I want you to tell me if the best option is an iPad, because many artists recommend it.

I’m still in high school and I want to learn as much as I can cause I love this medium and I only know how to draw people but I want to learn everything and I want to be able to have a lot of options when I leave high school

This is absolutely stellar, beautiful, clean, fun, and it looks like the style I want to imitate, your work is such an inspiration for me, thank you for the tutorial

I never really comment, but I found this to be an excellent review cause it pumps my brakes on "i need more tools" it makes me really think WHY do i need these tools. You make great points! Thank you

😂😂 yeah I think this should be called an artist rant while being ungrateful. Bro the iPad pro an pencil are obviously objectively good. The pencil needs to be pointy... what.... its not just about Ipad an the pen that make it 1 of the best options to use but the software apps are really the stars. End of the day you keep saying iPad pro better than.. what.. well its better than many options. Its better than my 2018 ipad pro n pen. Better than my xp pen setup, its even better than using my cintiq. Ya i said it. In the sense of beings an all in 1 portable device that gets the job done. Nomad with cozy blanket takes care of 80% of the work. Infinite painter n fresco takes care of other work. Zbrush coming to ipad too. At this point the ipad an pen are better THAN having a traditional laptop. Thats whats better. Then I can send everything to my rig for complex animation renders.

The iPad being portable is the main selling point for me. I have a Wacom as well and probably work mostly on that but procreate is great and Fresco is pretty good too. But nothing about the new iPads stand out as being worth an upgrade. So I agree with everything you said about apple just trying to make some $ off hype but the portability and feel of the Apple Pencil still make it worth having one but maybe not the latest

Got that britney mic

Subbed , more s9 ultra vids

do you have some kind of procreate beta version? because the public one is very buggy and laggy

why the nib is so fat? It is beginning to bother me now the screen resolution has gone too high. I will check out a third-party apple pencil nib that has a narrow pencil-like nib.

I just got it and it has like a delay on procreate any help? The ink doesnt show up right when i place the pen on the ipad

Hi Tim! One question, do your courses videos have subtitles??? Im From Spain and thinking in buying it and t'he subtitles help me a lot with t'he language.... (I think i Will buy It anyways... Jajajajajajaja) Thanks for all!

TLDR; "It's better, but who cares because artists adapt, but also I don't like it, it needs to be better. I don't want to conform on how I use it, because AI. A real pencil is better." Haha, in all seriousness, I wouldn't be surprised if apple added more software features to this at WWDC. I've seen videos where the app renders the shadow of the pencil and changes based off the angle, so it does seem to know its place in space. Hoping the tilt stuff gets better via software. My biggest gripe is that these aren't backwards compatible, either with older ipads or new ipads with older pencils.

Is it portable? Because I draw anime and other designs for my merch and would like to take drawing tablet to work with me.

Still waiting for my 32” iPad.

It's awesome to hear you give context to how you DO in fact get the mobile, on the go lifestyle. It's great to have you dismantle that before giving your full review. I hope people take what you're saying more seriously!

It is a hard pill to swallow as “Consoomers” that we can be easily enticed to buy something new and shiny with the idea that everybody is working on it, when it’s in fact not the case. As of now, unless the new iOS is amazing, it doesn’t make any sense to try to upgrade. I almost fell for buying this as an impulse buy. The $100 up charge for a nano texture screen is honestly unreasonable, considering you have to make a significant upgrade to the storage in the first place. Thanks for saying the quiet part out loud on the price and the benefits.

You make a lot of good points, Apple have always waited for others to perfect stuff, then cherry pick what they want, and more importantly (to them), what they want to give you as a consumer. It has its limitations, but once you’ve committed to their echo system, they pretty much got you. I for one pretty much use Apple products out of convenience, rather than because it’s cutting edge. Apple now, is sadly not the Apple of Steve Jobs.

Beautiful great artist really smart

I have 3 iPad Pros and my favorite is always the first iPad Pro which actually has a holdable bezel and weightier uniform Apple pencil that is easier to hold. I dislike the extreme thinning of the devices which is actually done due to facilitating a more integrated low cost design build. Apple is good at selling reliable cost-saving design build changes as stylish tech innovation. Though the incredible reliability and best in class programing are these devices most impressive feature taken for granted these days, it is also the devices biggest hurdle in getting people to upgrade to another device. Apple has gotten used to manufacturing and reselling devices that are relatively the same old reliable and resorted to spacing out the more desirable anticipated features and so we are at a place where sometimes we may act like we’re desperate for any new worthwhile features. I guess if Apple incorporated all the features that should have been in the pencil they fear longer time frames between upgrades. You might say they can innovate more new features but look at Wacom they been slow to innovate. I hope someday people realize that along with the obvious deliberately spaced out upgrades, the actual truthful reasons for what they constantly attribute to as being for innovation and style also has to do with lowering cost of production build. Such is the reason for the thin metal-saving time-saving build design. It used to be an extremely expensive design build making an iPhone, macbook, and ipad with cases made from a single block of aluminum.

You bring up a lot of great points. Yes, it's a small upgrade. The tech is great. They have to find reasons to make people buy new tech when the old tech still works about 95% the same. I enjoy the iPad and the Apple Pencil Pro, but knowing how long my last ipad did last, I'll probably get 6 years out of this one. I'm ok with that. Apple could make a lot of things artist would love to have. Better apple pencil options like you said would be great. Larger screen ipad. I'm sure a 15" model would sell!. Dual boot option with iOS and iPad OS, that would be great. Or hell, just give us a robust file system and don't silo off each app from each other. How about a real font Manager for iPad OS? - Apple has turned into the company they used to make fun of ( IBM/Microsoft ) - I understand companies have to be about profits but it seems Apple is ONLY concerned with profits. They could have made the new Apple Pencil Pro backwards compatible. I remember when they said they were cutting back on waste by not including a charger in the box of their iphones. LMAO and people really believed that.

This is the kind of discussion and meaningful conversation I came to this channel for. Thank you

This tutorial was actually incredible

Kove this! ❤ This is the stuff that helps so much! This stuff breaks my brain.

Great tutorial, very informative. It's good to see someone else use a samsung product. I've always used the note to draw due to that fact j always have it with me, but now I have a z fold 5. Which has been a real treat to draw with.

Well hell, you better return it while you can!

Totally off topic but I've been watching your earliest videos and something caught attention, a 123 read what is that exactly? Oh and happy new month : )

I think apple will bread-crumb artists along with each iteration of the pencil and the iPad, but this one feels more like market research to see what kind of money digital artists are willing to spend because let's face it, who else-but artists and creative-focused types are going to shell out the money for seemingly over-priced iPads solely for the purpose of having barrel roll? I think that clearly the barrel roll feature is a targeted attempt to solidify their creative demographic, and each time after this it will be an after-thought of 1 new feature per release. They are also going to find out that the only eyes they are pulling the wool over are the Apple-Stans, NOT the digital artists who have been using drawing tablets since 2000.

“I read Tim Ferris’ The 4-Hour Work Week before being a digital nomad was cool. I was doing it.” “I’ve literally been working as a concept artist in video games on a beach in the south of France sipping a freaking drink and actually doing it” You lost me here. There are valid critiques to be made but these types of irrelevant statements combined with the arrogance of thinking you know something everybody else doesn’t just comes across as lame. Not all pros work exactly the same, it works great for many and it’s obviously not for you. That’s how easily you could’ve summed it up.

Sir Tim, Your channel is a goldmine for someone like me who is learning to draw. I truly appreciate you putting out amazing quality videos and sharing your knowledge with the rest of us. I am forever grateful that I found your channel.

I bought a top-tier M1 iPad in 2021, because I wanted the ability to facial mocap and learn some 3D modeling in Nomad. Ironically, I've done almost none of either, but it did help me take up drawing again. I like it, and I'm gkad i have it but I wouldn't buy another. If I were ro buy a tablet for art, I'd try the Samsung Tab S9 Ultra, which uses a Wacom type pen and has rave reviews, then take the money I saved and buy Nvidia stock this summer after it splits. 😂

Is this 11 or 13 inch ipad pro?????

Have you tried the Galaxy Tab S9? I've been researching it the last few days to replace my iPad for a few reasons: 1. Closed vs Open Ecosystem; I really don't care for Apple's products apart from the iPad. 2. Flexibiity; OSX products are an onrails, fool-proof experience and I like being able to cause or solve problems on my own, something Android does really well. Also, Android speaks to Windows much better than anything Apple makes (duh) 3. Apple continues to sell everything a la carte. A lot of other companies have bundles, sales, etc to get good products into the hands of everyone. Also, I really have grown tired of Procreate. On my desktop, I can fly through menus, brushes, everything I need in Clip Studio Paint, but when I switch to sketching in Procreate, everything slows down and none of thr brushes feel very good to use. I hate the animated brush tips.

I have a cintiq 24 and barley use it only for certain project. The iPad Pro is what I chose most of the time for work. Putting a sleeve on the Apple pencil and it's good to go!

My current mental battle is do I want the 13inch or the 11inch. I have the 24' wacom which is big enough, just wanted the ipad for sketching and to try do more shitty kinda just sketchy art, just not sure if a 11' will be fine

All good and fair but there is very little competition for something that light. Being a nomad myself, I just don’t find laptop+tablet comparable, my back was dying all the time before I moved to iPad (I also think Wacom doesn’t have good ethos as well - e.g. drivers problems spun out for decades now). So yeah, might not be the best overall, but probably the best in its category. We also aren’t obliged to upgrade (yet haha) unless they bring out something really good.

I’m working on ipad pro professionally for few years now, and I think there’s nothing better than apple pencil. But! New pencil (pro version) looks like just the same thing for more money x)

What is a 123 read?????