She’s now using an iPad, just the basic bit over 9″ display. It’s already hard to tell she didn’t draw these by hand! She’s using a simple pen with a tip that the iPad can recognize. Paying $100 for an Apple Pencil was not on her radar, especially since it doesn’t really help you learn the apps – and until you know what they do, adding in pressure sensitivity and all that would just cloud the experience.
Yes, that was a trick question! She started most of them by hand, scanned them with the iPad and colored them digitally.
That’s the fun of an iPad – you can mix traditional sketching with digital stuff like coloring, perspective lines and more. Once she’s had time to figure out everything this gadget can do – and that could take some time, since there are a lot of apps out there and none of them work exactly the same way.
Eventually the idea is to be able to pass scaled base plans from iPad to iPad for more accurate field sketching – and we can pass photos, Morpholio Trace files and other information as needed. We don’t even know where we’ll end up; we’re inventing this stuff as we go!
Little steps are better than no steps!
Annette heacox