iPad Series

  • The iPad Artist, Part 2: iPad Air (2019) vs Surface Go

    Diving immediately into the process, I decided that I wanted a gadget beefy enough for it to not feel like a functional compromise. Ideally, a portable art machine would cost around half as much as my laptop did. Armed with a budget of ₹42,000 ($600), I came to realise rather quickly that there were only…

  • The iPad Artist, Part 1: A laptop doesn’t always cut it

    Until recently, my primary computer was a 14″ Lenovo 720S. It’s a powerful little guy; perhaps not as much as your thick, hefty gaming devices, but capable nonetheless. Portability was a key concern when I was deciding which laptop I should get myself, a little over a year ago, and this notebook ticked nearly all…

  • The iPad Artist, Part 0: Prologue

    As an illustrator and animator, using an iPad as my primary computer always seemed a challenging proposition. It would entail abandoning two decades of being conditioned to a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse, in addition to nearly half a decade of figuring out the ins and outs of getting used to Wacom tablet workflows.…