
And maybe the most important question which iPad drawing app should you use and why? That enables more freedom and a chance to get a more unique style on your artwork. I love the fact that you can create your own brushes, or buy new brushes to Procreate. Personally I love Procreate, and I tend to use Procreate for pixel drawing rather than Adobe Fresco, which I feel isn’t as developed and intuitive (yet anyhow). At this moment Procreate is probably the most popular iPad drawing app amongst creatives (my personal guess, not facts). It’s a stand-alone app with a fixed price, rather than the subscription you need for Adobes apps. So how does Procreate compare to Adobes drawing apps? Well Procreate has its own interface and features. And how does Procreate compare with Adobes drawing apps? Illustrator doesn’t have the time-lapse feature (yet… who knows what features will come to Illustrator on the iPad in the future). I don’t only love to look at the time-lapse myself, but they’re also great content to share online, on for example Instagram. One feature that Adobe Fresco has that I love is the time-lapse, so that you can see your drawing as a video.

I love the fact that you can draw with both vectors and pixels in Fresco and if I would guess how I will continue to use the apps I will probably sketch in Fresco and then finalise the drawings in Illustrator. So if you’re a vector artist is there an area of use for Adobe Fresco now that Illustrator for iPad is here? Well, I would say that it all depends on how you like to create. I love that you can work with several artboards of different sizes in the same document and the fact that your files are automatically saved to Cloud Documents really speeds up the design process, as you don’t need to export and import the files back and forth between the desktop and the iPad version of the app. Which makes it possible to actually finalise my illustrations on the iPad app, instead of needing to export the artwork to the desktop version to fix the details. That you for example can combine, divide and remove intersecting strokes is a really handy feature.

Some other features that I’ve found very useful is the shape builder tool. ( Subscribe to my newsletter to make sure you don’t miss out on my future classes and tutorials >) In my new Skillshare class I’ll walk you through the basics of the repeat tool, but I’ll also launch another Skillshare class soon which will be all about creating repeat patterns in Adobe Illustrator on the iPad in some different ways, and in that class I will discuss and teach you more about the repeat tool as well. And Illustrator on the iPad has a tool that you could, at a first glance, believe is the same as the pattern tool, but it actually is a completely new tool where you can create radial, grid and mirror repeats. The desktop version of Adobe Illustrator has its pattern tool, which I use all the time as a Surface Pattern Designer to create patterns. The most exciting new feature is probably the repeat tool. Some exciting features with Illustrator on the iPad You can’t however do everything that you can do with the desktop version, but I would say that you probably many times could go from start to finished project only in Illustrators iPad app if you wish (also depending on what you work with of course).

You can do so much with Illustrator on the iPad. You’ll find many of the basic functions such as selection tools, drawing tools, shape builder tools, align and distribute, transform tools and more. The interface and functions of Adobe Illustrator on the iPad will feel familiar if you’re used to working with the desktop version of the app.
PROCREATE VS AFFINITY DESIGNER IPAD TRIAL
(P.S if you want to watch my classes but aren’t a member at Skillshare yet you’ll get 14 days of free trial via this link > ) My new class is called “Introduction to Illustrator on the iPad: Design a Themed Illustration”.
PROCREATE VS AFFINITY DESIGNER IPAD HOW TO
I’ve previously made classes on Skillshare where I teach how to draw in Adobe Fresco and Procreate, and now I’ve also made a class where you’ll learn how to draw in Illustrator on the iPad. I’ve been using the desktop version of Adobe Illustrator for many years and I was eager to try out Illustrator for iPad, to see how it compares to not only the desktop version, but also to Adobe Fresco and Procreate.

Does Adobe Illustrator on the iPad live up to the expectations? What is the difference between Adobe Fresco and Illustrator on the iPad? And how does Procreate compare with Adobes drawing apps? And maybe the most important question which iPad drawing app should you use and why?Īdobe Illustrator on the iPad was recently released (October 20th, 2020), and the expectations in the creative community was high on this new vector drawing app.
