After a few weeks of exploration, the studio and I settled on a composition and I was tasked with painting the finished poster. I used the Procreate app on my iPad Pro to do the preliminary sketches and for blocking the basic colors of the poster. I then exported these layers into Adobe Photoshop and began detailing the artwork at a much higher resolution.
This is really impressive. The iPad Pro can be used for many things from creative endeavors to daily work—as technology continues to move forward, the possibilities are almost endless.
I’m unclear whether the final artwork was created on the iPad or whether only the preliminary sketches & color blocking were created on the iPad. I think the quote can be read either way.
One thing that is gong to be looked back on so badly is all this ”wow, that was done on an iPad” because a) of course a $1000 touch/pen computer should be able to do this, and b) almost everything that is made on an iPad still goes through a Mac/PC before publishing. A music album might be written and demoed on iPad — hugely important steps — but it will be finished and mixed and mastered in Pro Tools or Logic on Mac/PC. Artwork might be made on iPad but it will be finalized and built into a Web or print presentation in Adobe tools on Mac/PC.
The big problem here is Apple is telling users ”but a $1000–1500 iPad Pro to do 50–75% of your work and buy a $1500 Mac to do the other 25–50% of your work, plus buy apps on two platforms, plus do maintenance of two platforms, plus carry both Mac and iPad when traveling.”
Don’t get me wrong, iPad and Pencil is awesome. I bought an iPad on day one and have multiple iPads now. But Pencil needs to work on the Mac in the very next gen of Macs. I am an pro artist and like many of us, I write code in my work and the bulk of it happens on a Mac for that reason. And in music we use unrestricted access to CoreAudio, CoreMIDI, and AudioUnits in our work. And some write code also. About 95% of recording engineer software is plugins today and no change in sight, so no iPads at the heart of recording studios anytime soon. Why should music and art people have to add Wacom Tablet to a Mac to get out of 1984 and into 1999, but we can’t get into 2015 with Apple Pencil? The Mac is basically the same as 2006, it has stagnated as much now as the last time somebody other than Steve Jobs took over Apple.
So please, stop being amazed that a state of the art touch/pen computer can be used for art. Please start being amazed that the company who introduced multitouch in 2007 and described to us then HOW IT OBSOLETED THE MOUSE/TRACKPAD has done nothing to move the Mac into the 2010’s at all. The Mac lineup is absurd right now. There should be a MacBook, a MacPad, an iMac touch, and the Mac Pro should be a docking station for other Macs to attach to with Thunderbolt and your Mac becomes 500% faster. The Mac should have Apple’s most accurate pointing device from 2015, but instead it has Apple’s 2 least-accurate. One from 1982 and one from 1992. Obsolete. The fact that iPad can do some of what a Mac can do is no excuse for abandoning the Mac which can do all the advanced/engineer-type stuff that iPad is specifically designed not to do.
We should be saying “this artwork was done with Apple Pencil and multitouch but we don’t care if on iPad with App A or on Mac with Photoshop.” Some artists are better with iPad software, some with Mac/Adobe graphics software, but all need Pencil.
John, you have so much knowledge and enthusiasm. You should be Apple’s CEO.
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“But Pencil needs to work on the Mac in the very next gen of Macs…. Why should music and art people have to add Wacom Tablet to a Mac to get out of 1984 and into 1999, but we can’t get into 2015 with Apple Pencil?”
You can have that now:
http://astropad.com/