Originally posted by BarryE Don't most professional illustrators still use vector apps like Illustrator? The ability to build up an illustration in layers, that can separately be worked on and scaled, offers much more flexibility than pixel based programs.
You can work Illustrator drawings with sensitive, subtle blending and still maintain the scale. Vector illustrations maintain the accuracy, no matter what size. This is a limitation that can easily be seen when iPad work is enlarged.
Personally, I found Illustrator an intuitive program. Yes, it's not like natural drawing, though it can get quite close with some of the brushes and pressure sensitive pens, but it's an immensely powerful program, especially if work is needed to be re-purposed.
An initial investment is needed in time to learn the program (much like Photoshop), which maybe why marketing types love selling the idea that anyone can pick up a tablet and sketch a masterpiece with little practise.
Depends. Some illustrators work in ai, some (digital painting, concept art etc) work in raster (PS or procreate).
I think raster style is more attractive to people that tend to draw on paper and stuff, it's a more natural process. Vector graphics - from what I saw, most of peiple still sketch the drawings out on paper or in ps/procreate, then tracing and perfecting it in AI. Especially for branding work.
A lot of the concept artists actually sketch the base in some sort of 3D package (faster, plus for reference for scale/perspective), then take it to photoshop or whatever raster app to layer on top of it.
Vector graphics are great, but once you have thousands of different elements on the canvas, you start to get slowdowns in AI. Something to do with their poor implementation of the multi core processors I bet.
In the end its preference, plus the project. Some work requires vector graphics (large scale, or branding work). Some is fine with raster.
Procreate actually does a lot of clever things, and is $10. Kind of a steal imo.
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Originally posted by slartibartfast01 Is a laptop really expensive compared to an iPad Pro? Unless it's an Apple laptop of course.
I was talking in terms of the digital Illustration in that case. Laptop plus a Wacom tablet with a screen is more expensive that an iPad pro and Apple pencil.
IPad Pro on its own is probably a bit more expensive than a standard laptop I think.