App meet stylus.
Categories: artwork
Tags: iPad art, Adobe Ideas, Styli, Stylus, Pogo Connect, headache, King BrainKong
Date: 12 February 2014 20:06:02
Sometimes an app (or screen) just fits a stylus perfectly.
On my Galaxy Tab 8.9 I prefer the Pogo Sketch Pro and Nomad Compose, for example. The other day, drawing on PC World machines, I thoroughly enjoyed the HP and Nomad Flex paintbrush. On the Note 2 I seem to remember liking the Wacom Feel and Dagi 501 and on the Surface RT 1 the Dagi was also my favourite.
And so on. The Jot Script goes with most things :)
Occasionally someone asks me why I don't just stick with one. I'm minded to ask if they'd ask a classical painter to stick with one brush or a driver to just stick to one car... A chef to stick to one pan only, etc. I like holding a variety of styli and using the one which makes sense for the part of the picture I'm making, whether that's outlines, colours, shading etc. I use, and love using, the Jot Script, the Nomad Compose and Flex and Mini 2, the Stylus Sock, the Pogo Connect and Sketch Pro, the Wacom Intuos, the Dagi 501 (and other flavours of Dagi too) and a good few more. There are few styli I hate and, to be honest, life's too short for hate so I don't bother to talk about them really. Someone else might love that stylus and that's entirely fine.
Anyhow I drew this on the way home from work (ahem, stopping to sit for forty minutes to do so). I used Adobe Ideas - an app which I like a lot - and the Pogo Connect, which I also like a lot. It was a beautiful combination - some apps meld perfectly into the chosen stylus and though, often, I'd chop and change between the range of scribble sticks I have to hand this picture was only the Pogo Connect and I wasn't unhappy with that choice.
I do have a clanging headache though so have taken a headache pill as well as a medicinal hot drink of ginger, lemongrass and whisky.
Three more emails to do then lights out for the night. Night :)