The main con is that it’s only available for the 06 compared to photoshop, which can range from 9.99 to 20.99 per MONTH, depending on your subscription type Now, I’m going to do my best to not sound like I’m being paid by the Procreate team for this, because I’m not, I’m just really excited about this app, okay? For starters, it only costs 9.99 on the App Store, with no advertisements, subscriptions, hidden or pay-locked elements. What is Procreate, you may ask yourself? According to the internet, it’s a raster graphics editor (think Photoshop), though to anyone who is remotely interested in digital art, or even traditional art, it is a godsend. I decided to download Procreate from the App Store. Which I’d decided I didn’t need 05 spoiler alert: i love it now, especially for taking notes But, still trying to get some use out of this thing I’d made a mental list of all the things I didn’t like, convinced that my old pen-and-paper ways were far superior. The screen was too large for my hands, which was made worse by the clunky case we were also given, and I hated the feeling of holding it up like a giant phone. I fiddled around with the pen, and found that I didn’t like the way there wasn’t enough friction in the pen-screen contact. ![]() ![]() I spent a few hours just setting things up-downloading all the apps I’d need, installing certificates, synching my iCloud, logging into various websites so I wouldn’t have to later down the road, really just all the boring stuff that comes with getting something new. I was grateful for it, though, because I had a five day window where I had this new, fancy tech that was supposed to be for school, but I was also not yet in school. The package arrived on August 27th, earlier than most of my peers, though I’m not really sure why. I was pretty skeptical of the tablet life when it came to note-taking and doing work, but when MIT offered the option, I thought to myself: why not give it a shot? These are unprecedented times, after all. Alex has also written about the glorious iPad and even did an unboxing video for the fancy Apple Pencil. Well, what’s changed now? Why am I even writing this? Like hundreds of other MIT students, I received a free iPad and Apple Pencil in late August, as part of a new loaner program to help us with remote work in the age of COVID. The six tips were all textured differently to give you the sense of different materials-I most often used one that was hard and gritty and felt just like the tip of a pencil.ĭone in high school – i can’t actually color like this anymore 02 as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a foot away and also verticallyĭuring this time, LED tablets were either extremely expensive or couldn’t support the necessary software, so most amateur artists (at least, the ones I’d followed on DeviantArt) had drawing tablets. ![]() There wasn’t a screen, so you’d have to watch your monitor as you made the strokes, which took some serious disconnecting from the mind-hand connection ![]() After some careful research, I had gotten myself a Wacom Intuos tablet, which was a small black rectangle that I’d plug into my computer, and a wireless pen with six adjustable tips. In middle school, I’d saved up money from birthdays, holidays, and what allowance I got, so that I could buy myself a drawing tablet. I learned how to use Photoshop and Paint.NET and GIMP and Paint Tool SAI beginning in elementary school, and for a long while I would draw things by hand on paper, scan them, and then painstakingly line them using a computer mouse so I could color them digitally. I had sketchbooks full of Digimon I’d made up when I was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into drawingĪll sorts of things.
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