I finally got some time over vacation to make this video, showing my current digital art tools, with pressure sensitivity, and ability to draw on the screen:
Unfortunately, being able to draw directly on screen + pressure sensitivity, comes at a much higher price than just one of the two functions. Here are the rough prices, googled late 2012.
Wacom Cintiq 12" - 24": ~$1000 - $3700 for monitor/tablet, without computer
Samsung Series 7 Slate: ~$1000 - $1300
Apple iPad3 with Jot Touch - previously reviewed: ~$500 + $100
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet: ~$500
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 phablet: ~$300 on contract, ~$670 without contract
Sketchbook, the best digital art app ever, and cheap!
PC/Mac - Sketchbook Pro 6: $60
iOS/Android - Sketchbook Pro (tablet paid version): $3
iOS/Android - Sketchbook Mobile (phone paid version): $1
Sketchbook on Samsung Galaxy Note 2
Sketchbook on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
Hey there, awesome video! You''re like my long lost hardware twin! I've been using the note 2 and the 10.1 also and figured out a way to keep them synched together. You can use the dropsync app combined with dropbox to point both your mobile and pro sketchbook directories to one folder on dropbox set up with 2 way sync. Then images will open up in either app. Also, You can open up the tiff files and change resolution on your desktop pc and resave, and the new image will open fine in pro or mobile. The thumbnail images get a bit strange if the aspect ratio gets too off from default though.Also, you will still need to keep the res reasonable, but it works great.
ReplyDeleteAhh cool idea Darrell, I back up using dropbox but never thought of syncing between the Notes, and changing the res from desktop. Thanks also for the tip on dropsync, pretty cool app. However, when I upres and upload a tiff to dropbox, they don't show up in my sketchbook mobile. Then I tried to load that new high res tiff straight from dropbox, but it complains that the file is not supported..... Can you share your exact process for upresing to work on please?
DeleteOh I think I got it.... you have to modify and upres one of the tiffs, and save over it with the same name. I was saving them as new tiff's, and expecting them to show up, but they don't. Thanks for the awesome tip!
DeleteI'm not sure if ProCreate is on platforms other than iOS but I like it a good deal better than SketchBook Pro is currently. Larger size, more layers, better brush customization, snappy performance, and my favorite: distortable bounding box transformation. With Sketchbook Pro for iOS I had to redraw more or do wonky layer duplications/erasings to edit minor things the distortion can fix. Then too with fewer layers it was more cumbersome to do editing like that.
ReplyDeleteAlso Jot-Touch dropped in price to $89.99. They added some cool new features too to take advantage of bluetooth 4.