OVERVIEW: Pencil Pencil and Paper App - Perfect Drawing Tools for iPad

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

After reading the book You Can Draw in 30 Days, I started painting again. It's nice to draw while thinking, sitting in a cafe on the island, looking out the window on an airplane, or just looking out the window of a house. The second wave of desire to paint came over me after I got acquainted with the Paper app - the ideal artist's tool on the iPad.

Drawing is the first skill that a child who is drawn to creativity masters. Then we stop drawing, replacing this occupation with photography, or simply do not even admit the thought that we still know how to do it.

However, when by chance in the Apple Store I saw a special Pencil from the creators of the wonderful Paper program, everything came together - I wanted to draw again and, most importantly, I began to work. The Pencil and the Paper program are discussed below.

The Paper app for iPad is good because the creators managed to replicate as much as possible real physical models of watercolor, brush, pen, slate pencil, smearing, mixing paints and other tools familiar to artists. All this works smoothly (on my first generation iPad Air), and a complete sense of the reality of what is happening is created. You can draw with your finger, and even with such a rough tool, you can create great pictures and even masterpieces. The program will work out the force of pressing your finger and provide tremendous opportunities without a special pencil.

Why regular styluses don't work

As you know, there are many different styluses out there, and they can cost a penny. The only problem with them is that when drawing on the iPad, you will need to keep your hand over the canopy. The tablet screen responds to multiple touches, and the pad of the hand works well. Therefore, either draw with your finger, holding your hand over the canopy, or switch to Pencil. This is how it differs from stylus.

Why is Pencil better

The point is that the Pencil is an active device. That is, it has batteries, and it connects to the Paper app via Bluetooth. This connection is needed only for one thing: the application is able to ignore other clicks, except for the stylus, in those moments when it is connected. This means that you can draw with it by placing your hand on the iPad just like you do on plain paper.

Connecting and disconnecting Pencil while drawing is excellent. You just touch the pen tip to a special area on the application screen and hold the Pencil there for a couple of seconds. Once - and it is disabled. Then hold it for a couple more seconds - it is connected and ready to work. But if you don't turn off the pencil, you can still smudge the paint with your fingers. You just need to take it away from the screen.

The Pencil is charged via USB. For example, from a computer. The pencil lasts up to a month from one charge. We have not had time to check this yet, since it has not yet been discharged.

If we talk about the physical properties and the sensations from working with it, then everything is cool: Pencil is soundly made, it is weighty and very intuitive. But writing with thin lines is not as convenient as it is shown in the advertising video. After all, he is a felt-tip pen, a pen, and a brush, but not a thin pen. And yes, turn it over and erase what you painted wrong. Everything is like in life.

The Pencil is quite expensive for a passive conventional stylus, but it is cheaper than other Bluetooth pencils in its class.