Who would have thought that you could do THIS much on an iPad?
Originally with this series I wanted to steer away from reviewing apps that weren't accessible to everyone but this is one is that good. Procreate for iPad should be enough motivation for anyone that takes art seriously to buy an iPad. The capabilities of this app are virtually endless and it is more than ready to produce jaw dropping results. Don't believe me? Take a look at this.
Case and point. Boom. The mic has been dropped. The crazy part is that the guy didn't even use a stylus like the $100 dollar piece of plastic I bought from Apple. (Actually the Apple pencil is still pretty sweet. I just don't use it enough.)
The UI is sleek and appears simple but it has a lot of features baked in. Like so many I don't want to go into depth and bore you with them. The really cool thing about this app is how much control you get. With a couple touches of your finger, you can change the size and opacity of your stroke with ease.
Are you like me? Have you in the past spent hours drawing something and slightly mess up, and thought, "oh I'll just use my eraser really quick, no big deal". Next thing you know the mistake grows larger and way more noticeable and you start spinning out of control trying to fix it. This scenario usually ends with me rage quitting in real life. I shred the paper into a million little pieces of ugly confetti and say, "fuck art, I'm never drawing again". With an app like Procreate I don't have to be in this perpetual cycle of rage and I can actually progressively get better. I'm not saying I'm an artist. There are people here that are a million times better than I but, I do occasionally try to draw and having something as simple as a double finger tap undo feature helps me draw things like the picture below. 250 undo states doesn't hurt either for when you missed something in the excitement of drawing.
Procreate has a ton of different shaped brush strokes that emulate everything from watercolor to polygons, (so many that I haven't found time to use them all) but if that's not enough for you, everything is easily customizable. I STILL haven't learned all of the cool little touch shortcuts but you can do things like merge layers simply by pinching them together or fill by dragging a color from the pallet on to your canvas. See, look at me, this app has me so giddy I can't even make a coherent paragraph.
- Features galore, wrapped in a nice little neat package. Unless you spend a month or two with the program you won't be able to use them all.
- The clean UI allows you to work without distractions. If you're like me when there are a million icons hanging around your art you find ways into giving up on resisting temptation and clicking them. That doesn't make for a very productive experience.
- Drawings/Painting can be exported to full HD video when completed! How fucking cool is that?
- As I stated above Procreate is only available on iPad. Sorry everyone else.
- Unfortunately there are any tools in the kit to support motion. If they did that they would have probably made the perfect app. (I'll find you one day perfect app. I'll find you one day.)
- Sometimes things get a little pixelated when importing photos at smaller sizes. I'm not really turned away by this because I don't feel like that is the purpose of this app.
The bottom line here is that you're probably never going to find a better app for illustrating. It doesn't answer all of the questions that an artist man have but for an iPad app it's pretty close. I'm blow away by this app and I'm pretty sure it may be the best app on my iPad Pro. This thing is cheap for what it does. Pick it up on the App Store for $5.99
That looks like a really really good app. But i wonder how long did the artist draw Morgan Freeman. Gonna show this to my designer soon. Thanks for the post @kryptik
Thank you for reading! Honestly I'm not sure but the app is really cool. It doesn't fill the void for vector stuff but I like it.
Love this app too and your review was spot on.
Wish I was as good as the artist on this review.......
but as they say practice makes perfect.
Great review. Looks like this app will be worth the price of an iPad alone for some people.
Did you watch that video?
informative post on tech and a nice drawing from the video
There is some serious talent in the world. Thanks for reading! I really appreciate it.
the pleasure is mine
Here take a couple of cents.
thanks.... i really appreciate
Good tip!
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My son uses Procreate to do preliminary studies for larger work, he loves it.
https://steemit.com/art/@danepatterson/dane-patterson-insomnia-notes
That's pretty cool man I'll have to check out some more of his stuff.
Welp, now I'm even more pissed at Apple. I'm going to be sulking over here with my plethora of Android devices that don't have apps nearly as awesome as this.
Fuck you, Steve Jobs. You glorious bastard.
Fucking art.