this is the brand new apple pencil Pro
it gives artists pressure sensitivity tilt the brand new and magical barrel
roll feature alongside the squeeze and double tap functions at
$130 plus the latest iPad with all its capabilities it is an impressive piece
of Kit this Wacom cintiq Pro doesn't
have barrel roll tilt requires meticulous configuration in Photoshop
and you can't take it anywhere either for all this you'll have to Dole out
$3500 and yet all the professional artists I've met use this for their work
and not Apple
why to find out I connected with professional artist Elizabeth Scott
whose credits include background work on Rick and
Morty it was really cool that was the second show I ever worked on and uh it's
cool to work on a show that has such a big name that so people know she too
uses a cintique the older hd22 model for
her professional background work but she also has a six gen iPad with a pencil
too I'm not a huge Tech person so I won't spend money on Tech if I don't
have to um and I think that was at the
time and even now like the cheapest version of the iPad you can use with the
apple pencil so what do you mean by you're not much of a tech person I uh
don't care to learn anything about tech I don't need to know
I guess like so the 22hd scentique that I use that's what I
learned to draw on in school that's what I used at work I'm worried that this is
going to be a lot harder than I initially imagined but considering what's new on the pencil Pro I'm sure
she's going to love it are you ready to try these things out yeah okay let's go
I hope she's going to love it okay so
this is the new iPad Pro with the new
pencil Pro let me give it a try sure
okay the first thing I noticed about it is I don't like how clicky the pen is on
the screen oh I don't like the feeling of drawing on glass and I feel like my
hands kind of sticking to it a little bit well I might have a solution to give
the iPad a fighting chance and that's this video sponsor paperlike though it
means I have to put the screen protector on which is a very daunting task so I'll
go do this and you can try the cintique pro
all right so I guess we should show her the best of what Wacom has to
offer at $3500 the 27-in cintiq pro is the
largest and best in their lineup as the top-end drawing tablet it is the dream
for all artists available in three sizes all with precise UHD resolution 120 HZ
refresh rate and over 8,000 levels of pressure sensitivity from the propen
3 first thought is I like the way that this pen feels the antique pen that I'm
used to is a little bit thicker I like that this is skinny it just kind of
feels like a regular pencil it's nice and light are you talking about the pen
yeah it's it's actually really customizable oh is it yeah let me go at
the things unlike an apple pencil the Wacom Pro pen is customizable to your
heart's content with two grips weights
extra buttons and two different nibs so how did you custom the pens
so I added a weight to make it a little bit heavier on the bottom I also changed
the tip to a felt tip because it feels a little bit nicer and less clicky on the
screen and normally I have a grip on my pen but I like how uh skinny and light
it is without it so I left it
off oh my goodness this looks pretty good so what are you drawing I'm drawing
a background I uh use scenes to draw backgrounds for work
so this is what I'm used to working with professionally so what background are
you drawing there's a lot going on in this this is a little very formal space
a little Heritage House I guess just something I haven't drawn before it's
not just the pen you can customize too the cintique pro also has control
buttons on either side of the screen and on the pen that could be mapped to any
keyboard shortcut you desire oh very cool I think my first
impression is having the express Keys is is really nice personally I use a lot of
functions on the keyboard so I don't know if I could go without a keyboard
but um on the pen having an undo feature
is very helpful and I would use that all the time I will say that it does require
a bit of time to get the feel for the buttons and in my experience the ones in
the back of monitor do activate quite easily too okay I'm noticing you're
wearing this kind of fancy glove what is
that uh so this is a drawing glove um you don't need it I just find uh that
when you're drawing for a long time and the screen gets warm sometimes your hand kind of sticks to the screen and so it's
easier to draw smoother lines one of the things you're paying for with this
sentique Pro is the display's quality and so I got Labs to run some tests to
see how close the display matches whack's claims indeed it covers the
gamuts when in Native mode but Strays from its claimed figures due to some
aggressive clamping when in the targeted color profile modes so what do you
picture this is a low angle too so what what's happening in what's going to
happen in this scene that you've created um well I'm used to drawing at uh at
pretty much eye level so sometimes it's nice to just play around with angles try
something you wouldn't normally do some like it's a little more of a
storytelling tool like maybe this is from like a child's perspective or A
Pet's perspective just adds a little more to the narrative with the new
cintique Pro like how does it compare to the one you've been using it's
bigger and the screen is cleaner um I
don't notice a huge difference the thing that stands out to me actually is I like
the feel of the pen better I guess I do
notice you said there are more sensitivity levels yeah there yeah I
noticed that a little bit if you didn't mention that to me I probably wouldn't
have noticed it okay so you've had a lot of seat time on this I want you to try
the iPad sure with the paper like screen
protector uh to see why you don't use it
okay for work you mean for work yeah sure for artists like Elizabeth who are
missing the tactile feeling from their Wacom an iPad with the paperlike screen
protector just might be the ticket there's so much dust manufactured in
Switzerland it uses their exclusive micro bead technology called Nano dots
to add resistance and improve haptic feedback emulating the feeling of
writing on paper does it make a difference absolutely yeah it um it
wouldn't have like been a huge bother before but now that I have it with a
screen protector it feels it feels a lot better there's less um less resistance
when you're moving your hand hm thanks to the Nano do technology yeah so if you
want to replicate a paperlike feel and enhance your apple pencil Pro experience
check out paperlike at the link in the description below so now that we have
the right surface let's get back to the iPad as I've learned in the past
pressure sensitivity is very important for digital artists and the original
pencil brought it together with automatic tilt sensitivity too which
Elizabeth doesn't use in her work it seems with an apple pencil and actually
even with the like third party cheap ones mhm you can have a tool where it's
when you go straight on it looks like that and when you go on an edge it looks
like that that's really nice it is but
do you not that doesn't there's not a thing on here no not that I know of so
then how do you adjust tilt like you have to do it manually uh or do you care
um sometimes if I'm doing like shading or something I'll use a different brush or I'll lower the opacity pressure
sensitivity uh is what I use most of the time huh so like all professional
artists just just don't care about tilt
um maybe some do I don't really use it for the work that I do and none of your
colleagues have been like what you don't have tilt on no I haven't been bullied for
it the Wacom does support tilt but it
requires setting your brushes up manually in the respective settings to
get it to work which as we've learned is something Elizabeth definitely won't do
but what about the other magical features added to the pencil Pro so you
use Photoshop professionally on the PC but I you told me that you also use
procreate on the iPad exclusively and that is where the magic of the new
pencil Pro will uh rise to the top so
they've added two significant new features one is squeeze which you can
set to open up a quick menu and the other is barrel roll and there's a
sensor that senses the rotate of the pencil and then can apply that to
certain brushes in procreate okay that
I'll be interested to see how that is cuz if it works smoothly that'll be really helpful so just squeeze oh
interesting this could be really handy I'm going to
try just drawing something like that and
then horizontally oh it flips the whole canvas okay I'm used to being able to
flip the drawing it's cool that it flips the entire canvas well I know fiddle
around see see how the B Works ooh
that's really nice I would um man I
would use that all the time I'm kind of surprised that that's not um a basic
feature in this antique for example cuz I feel like everyone would use that all
the time uh well they told me it was and
no one used it oh so and then they discontinued the pen that supported it
it was really good I was I was really impressed by it when you told me that
was a feature I was kind of like that sounds too good to be true I'll believe it when I see it cuz I personally like
brushes that are long and skinny and so every time you have to rotate when you
want to do a new stroke you have to rightclick rotate the brush there are
occasions where it's like a little bit jittery I feel like but I would use that
all the time why
um because well being able to see where your brush is going to be and what angle
it's at is fantastic because without that sometimes you put a stroke down and
it's not exactly the way you want it so you have to undo it um so being able to
see in advance where the brush is going to be is awesome okay so why don't we
open up the iPad version of Photoshop and have you finish your drawing on here
the lowest price of entry for someone looking to get an apple pencil Pro is
actually $730 because you'll need to buy an M2
iPad air to go with it mercifully Apple now offers a 13-in version for only $200
more instead of forcing you to go with a large Pro like the one we're using here
this one cost $1,300 so I'm not as familiar with the
iPad version of Photoshop so it's taken me a second to to get acquainted with it
that's understandable uh okay one thing
that I notice right away uh for what I do professionally is I use the transform
tool a lot there's a few different versions of the transform tool and
immediately I think that would be kind of difficult to do on here Apple says
the iPad is a computer but as I've complained about it in the past apps are
just different on it and for an established professional like Elizabeth
any limitations to how the software operates isn't on starter oh man I don't
know what any of these are so this so you don't like this no
immediately uh it would take some time to get used to the iPad supports side
car so you literally can plug your iPad into your Mac and it becomes
another screen oh okay yeah now I'm at home I like this better this is actually
this is actually pretty nice I wasn't sure um because the screen is smaller
than the centique but this is pretty
good the icons are a bit smaller but like not enough that it bothers me and
it doesn't feel like it's like low res or anything like that I mean you do kind
of get like a weird little blob at the beginning sometimes is it a deal breaker
yeah I think it would get get really annoying after a while I'm
going to try it with smoothing and see how much of a difference that makes yeah
it still does it that that to me is kind of annoying so it's not the screen
protector I think it's maybe just it's it's some sort of pencil connection
thing this is so close the seamless way
the iPad works is a drawing tablet with a Mac is surprising and impressive but
there are just a few niggles that make it less than perfect but Wacom has
another portable alternative option for artists it's called the moving and it's
a super thin 13-in OLED monitor with all the same capability as the cintique so
it uses the same pen just is not quite as customizable they don't have the
weights they just have a couple extra nibs in the back but it's exactly the same pen that you you were using before
uh let's see if it does the same glitch sure that we were having an issue with
on the the pressure sensitivity glitch same brush turn I'm going to turn off
the smoothing no that feels really nice
actually so this actually was now working better than the iPad and pencil
through sidecar y yeah like how much better well there's not that glitch
which is really nice and also just in general it feels a lot smoother it's not
as jittery as the apple pencil so there's a bit of a compromise with the
pencil it's like usable but I also like
like the feel of this pencil better and I found myself a couple times
accidentally like squeezing the apple pencil so the menu would pop up um which
I don't know I guess you could get used to but um just as someone who's not used
to them I really like the feel of this Labs testing of this little screen
showed that it can display a lot of colors just not as accurately as either
the cintiq pro or of course the OLED iPad Pro likely because of a gamma
tracking issue they noticed on all of the tests the centique is the industry
standard so I would say I would say go with the centique I really liked the
model we use today but I think the mink
is probably next under that for me and
then I'd probably put the iPad at the bottom if you're thinking of working
professionally but again I really like the iPad for procreate I just like them
for different things for personal work uh the iPad's really portable I like how
simple the interface is with procreate but if you're just going to be sitting
at a desk which a lot of people in the industry are then it's nice to have like
a big tablet that you can draw on the big Advantage with the antique is it so
big that's what I like about it I don't know you just want a big iPad yeah I
guess I do like a 20in iPad yeah that'd be perfect what features from the iPad
would you want on the cintique barrel roll and hover I'm going to go home and
be thinking about how much I like it next time I draw on my iPad I'm going to
be like it's not the same all right well it looks like despite their vast
differences Elizabeth is going to go out there and get an iPad and apple pencil
Pro I cannot stress enough how much I won't spend money on Tech if I don't
have to so um I think that is something
I will look forward to buying when my iPad dies but it's not enough for me to
switch right now while my iPad still works oh wow I love what she did with
the place I though I haven't felt this short since I was a boy anyway thanks
Elizabeth for drawing this Mac Address I'm curious in the comments of you
artists whom of you use a Wacom stique and an iPad or both and if you want to
watch another video we've done you can check out the one with Audrey where we
compared an apple pencil to some cheaper alternatives