Switched from Wacom to a used iPad Pro last month and my lineart finally stopped looking like garbage

I used to fight with pressure sensitivity settings for hours on my old tablet, but now I just draw directly on the glass and it saves me about 20 minutes of tweaking per sketch, has anyone else found that the simpler setup actually makes a bigger difference than fancier tools?

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derek_schmidt628d ago

Man that whole laminated glass thing made such a difference for me too... I didn't realize it was a thing until I actually drew on the iPad and it clicked. My old Wacom had that weird gap where the cursor was always slightly off from where the pen touched the surface, and I'd constantly overcorrect my lines. I remember spending an entire afternoon calibrating and recalibrating pressure curves on my Bamboo, and it never felt right. Now I just sit down and sketch without thinking about the hardware at all. It's wild how much of my old workflow was just fighting bad settings instead of actually improving my linework.

julia_miller241mo ago

iPad Pro doesn't have laminated glass, it's just the screen.

rubyschmidt1mo ago

Actually, the iPad Pro has had laminated glass since the first model came out in 2015. There is no air gap between the glass and the screen, which is part of why it feels so much better to draw on compared to older tablets that have that little gap. I think Julia might be confusing it with some of the cheaper iPads or older tablet PC hybrids that had that problem. The lamination is a pretty big deal for artists because it makes the pen tip look like it's touching the ink directly instead of hovering above it. It really does cut down on that disconnect you get with non-laminated screens.