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MakorenDev
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February 16, 2020
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Possibly switching from Procreate to Photoshop, need advice

  • February 16, 2020
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For the last several months, I've been using an iPad, Apple Pencil, and Procreate to practice character design. All of my practice drills have been done on the iPad.

 

This has been really fun, but I also want to upgrade to Photoshop at some point to take advantage of its features, get access to more resources, and build industry skills (currently not an artist by trade, but it's an option I'd like to have available in the future).

 

Problem is, switching from iPad to a little Wacom Intuos is very unfamiliar right now, which means I'm going to need to practice all over again.

 

I feel like it's gonna be a waste if I just throw away the practice I've spent on the iPad to focus on drawing on a PC, but at the same time, I feel like it would be better to make the switch now instead of years down the road when I actually need Photoshop.

 

Basically I need a second opinion. Is it worth taking the dive into Photoshop, or should I stick to Procreate?

 

Any advice is appreciated, and please tell me if I've missed anything important.

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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February 16, 2020

Well, let me ask the evil question here: How good are your conventional drawing skills? Don't take this the wrong way, but this very much sounds like the old issue of getting lost in the technicalities of digital drawing and the specifics of a program due to perhaps not so great base knowledge. Granted, getting used to the individual behaviors of different tools and brushes will take some time, but otherwise the difference between painting on a Wacom vs. an iPad should be minor. Therefore I don't really see this as an "either...,or..." question, but rather that you may already have locked yourself intro a specific workflow and are now afraid to make changes. The same were to happen if you started using different painting apps. So with all that being the case, it's probably fair to say that things won't get better unless you start to broaden your horizon and expand your tool palette. This could of course include PS on a PC along with Gimp, ArtRage, Flamepainter, but just as well could mean being adventurous and installing some alternate quirky paint app on your iPad...

 

Mylenium

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