

I have a cintiq but have found that I never use it as I love the portability and convenience of the surface pro for my art. The new surface pro pen currently has a lot of jitter issues (mainly because it is trying to implement tilt) and is impossible to use as an accurate drawing implement, but I have found the Bamboo Ink and Adonit Ink to be much better and in fact think that the Adonit Ink, although cheaper than the new surface pen is the closest I have found to the accuracy of the apple pencil. It may be that I have just developed more muscle memory and feel from using the surface pro so much, but of course ArtRage exists within the windows ecosystem which I have found offers me much more flexibility.įor example I can setup some hardkey shortcuts, via a numpad and also using the volume up and down for brush size resizing and colour picking, this tactile feeling I realised was essential for my workflow.Īlso I use the more advanced features of ArtRage, like the sticker spray and the warp and not to have these just makes painting a little more awkward. I could never quite get the feel for using ArtRage on the ipad pro, of course it has reduced functionaly but it didn’t feel natural to me, in fact I couldn’t get on with any ipad app.


I could never get used to the feel of the pencil, it felt too hard on the screen, I used a matte screen protector to increase the friction but still preferred the slight give I get in the surface pro stylus. I have had both and have put in many hours desperately trying to use the ipad pro 12.9 because the apple pencil is the best stylus out there and is amazingly accurate.īut I keep returning to the surface pro and in fact have just put up my ipad pro on ebay
