need some honest opinions regarding adobe draw. planning to buy an iPad or surface pro.

This is why I generally have no interest in touch-based tablet OSes for any kind of graphics work. I gave up finger-painting before kindergarten, and only engage in finger-drawing when scratching a route in the sand with my off-road riding buds.

That said, take a look at Serif Affinity Designer, and the functional similarities between its iPad and desktop versions. You do yourself a disservice by limiting your tools to those from a single vendor.

JET

Photoshop will be released for the iPad Pro in 2019, but nothing at all has been said about Illustrator.

https://www.macworld.com/article/3313331/photoshop/why-photoshop-on-ios-is-a-huge-win-for-the-ipad-pro.html

Yup. Draw is basically the Traveling Blob Brush Show. It's a solid vector sketching app if you love the blob brush and want to play with a few neat additional features (like my favorite: tapered ends). However, if you're a pen tool person (or live paint... or perspective grid... etc.) you'll be pretty bummed out.

I like to use both together. I'll do my sketching and about 90% of my drawing in Draw and then send it to Illustrator for gradients, pen tool things, clipping masks, etc. If you need the fully-fleshed-out Illustrator experience, get the Surface Pro. If you want something for sketching as a starting point, the iPad plus Draw is totally fine.

An iPad is not a computer.

And Illustrator Draw cannot be compared with Illustrator at all. It's basically a completely different thing. Think of Adobe Draw as a kind of sketching app. There should be a couple of tutorials on the Adobe Draw website so you can see how it works. It has some brushes and it has layers and that's it. It doesn't even have a select tool.

There are a couple vector apps for the iPad, but none of them is as powerful as Illustrator (and none of them can exchange their files with it). You can somehow import their files into Illustrator and you can somehow import PDF or SVG or EPS files from Illustrator into those apps, but forget about a roundtrip workflow where everything stays fully editable (or even fully vector based). By fully editable I mean that all the features, layers, brushes, effects, strokes you applied in one software can be fully edited in the other one (I know that of course you can edit the paths).

Don't get me wrong: I like Adobe Draw and use it and I like the iPad and use it, but it's not a computer.