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I would marginally be considered a "professional artist" and I am salivating about these devices after seeing them in action. For me, the combination of accurate stylus, retina display, and that slider thingy are a dream come true!

Sure, the iPad software that accompanies these programs is pretty wimpy, but I can easily work around these limitations with some post processing. However, every artist's workflow is different, so other people might have more difficulty working around the limitations.

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> "professional artist"

I understand the novelty of drawing on an iPad. But I've tried it many times and it's just not accurate at all. You just have to look at the tip of those pens to understand that. IMO Cintiq is the only way to go if you're serious about "art". On the other side, if you use that kind of things for notes and rapid prototyping, why not.

Still though: if it's good enough for David Hockney, it's quite good.

http://www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk/exhibitions/david-hockney

Well, it's not like he does any detailed drawing. So his needs are simpler (for Mondrian, even more so, lol).

But check my other comment for Procreate (iPad app). It's impressive what people have done in it, even in 4K resolution.

But accurate enough:

http://studiojason.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/nikko2.jpg

Surely that depends on what you're doing? Impressionism, cubism, expressionism are not really defined by their accuracy.

I understand where you're coming from. I started drawing when I started reading comics. The lack of accuracy does suck.

But it's possible to do good work http://kylelambert.co.uk/.

This one supposedly has a super high accuracy. Did I get it wrong, is this just another capacitive stylus? If so, then I agree it's crap.

Edit: darn, after some research it looks like this pen uses regular capacitance... Unless they solved the accuracy issue that existed with earlier pens, the review I saw must have been misleading... I thought this used a new technology.

The new thing going on is that Apple is letting you detect the size of a touch on the screen, which lets you approximate pressure by how smushed the tip is. Still going to be less accurate than a Wacom or similar stylus, but it's an improvement over being less accurate and not having pressure sensitivity.

Well, this guys managed:

http://procreate.si/

(Scroll down to the Gallery).

This guy managed to do great art in MS Paint[1] but it seems they are making great art despite their tool and probably not going to be a good tool for the mainstream professional.

[1] http://www.themarysue.com/ms-paint-art/

Well, it's not like Procreate is like MS Paint in this regard. It's an extremely fast and capable painting and compositing engine. And those are just the gallery highlights on their marketing pages.

There are Flickr etc groups with sample images from simple users, and the do quite impressive work. In fact several professional illustrators use it.

So it's not like one guy's MS Paint novelty act.

Why not use a surface pro in this case?

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