Tablets, Ipads, Galaxy, etc recommendations?

[Sanz]

hey guys! so. I draw pretty much everything digitally, it's just more convenient being how busy I can get. however Previously I used an ipad 2 that. sort of sucked. it was too big then I sold it and got an Ipad mini, size was good, but it's running out of room since its only 16gb. lame right? and I removed pretty much all the large images I'm not really looking into getting something that plugs into for external storage I'll lose it. I know i will. I do have a laptop but...it's too much to lug around and the battery life is pretty poor. also I'm trying to stay away from apple. I hate the limited storage unless you pay more. so does anyone have any suggestions on digital tables ? anyone have this same issue?

another question.
I was watching Draw with Jazza I love that dude and I always see this glove. I'm sure he may have mentioned what it is and where he got it in an early video, but I figure I'd ask to see if anyone knew where i can grab one.

thanks all!

[SamNoir]

can't go wrong with a Cintiq. tried tested and true.

[heterodont]

I'm not gonna be much help in the tablet recommendations because I use a desktop computer and regular intuos, but that looks to be a smudge guard he has on his hand. I'm pretty sure you can find it online somewhere :y

[SirHellsir]

just look for drawing gloves on amazon
here's one

[Sanz]

@SirHellsir A DRAWING GLOVE! I had no clue what it was called. didnt even think of that thankyou !
@heterodont a smudge guard ok ! THANKYOU!

[TheVoidchildProject]

When I started out I used an iPad Air for all my pages. This worked for a while but I found that I eventually had to graduate from it because it didn't allow for as much functionality as my pc/drawing tablet. So I'm not sure how well I'd recommend it outside of drawing up storyboards or concept art. Sketchbook Pro was my app of choice since it allowed to work with layers.

[alensmile1997]

Here my equipment when drawing or painting,

Ipad Air, Procreate app, and Adonit Jot PRO. If you want to draw on Ipad series, i suggest to buy Ipad Air/Ipad Air 2/Ipad Pro. This 3 are the best tool when it come to designing and painting with the right apps because of their powerful processor, tho Ipad Air are slightly weaker then the other 2.

Here the apps that i suggest for Ipad:
- Procreate (Great for painting)
- Graphic/iDraw (Really awesome for vector )
- Assembly ( For brainstorming and creating mock up ideas )
- Pixaki ( Very awesome pixel art app )
- Autodesk Sketchbook ( Really great for simple sketching )
- Concept (Just try it, and u will know the greatness )

Hope this helps!

[Sanz]

thanks so much I'll look into these !I recently started using Medibang on my Ipad mini it works really well in all aspects! excpect for vector art but does export in a pretty high resolution, also seems I'm might be stuck with apple. I still have a little more research to do that you for the apps! I'll check them out too !

[alensmile1997]

No problem at all!
Medibang is not bad for a freeware and i also has some experience with it, tho because i had bought procreate and fall in love with it, so i choose procreate. If i want a free painting apps, i would want Medibang! It is still new and had a lot of room to improve and had a pretty big community. And good luck on your journey! I also stop using my laptop after founding how inconvenience it is

[Mikayi]

I have a Samsung galaxy tablet, it was small enough for me to carry around and I used an app called art flow, I paid for it to get all the layers. Generally it's not bad. It takes some getting used to and depending on your program of choice it works well. However runing large programs that are desktop or laptop like photoshop you'd need a tablet that can run those. The galaxy I used joint pro and the bamboo stylus . Sometimes a cheap one for wide areas of flat coloring.

Currently I own surface pro 4 I have to say I love that thing. It comes with a pressure pen. The only thing is the graphic card may cause issues unless it's upgraded or updated on the Windows. But I run cs 4 on it and I donor have any issues other then it's hard to see the entire program unless you zoom in. The drawing area is fine. The surface is very smooth because it's a glass area. The pen and tablet work very well I do not experience any gaps when drawing or coloring. I enjoy mine.

I've used a bamboo tablet that is connected to but not like the clinq that shows the desktop on the tablet itself which is amazing and if I had the money I'd buy one with a new computer.

Drawing glove if you are unable to turn off the palm reading in the tablet a cheep way is to buy the winter gloves the cheap cloth ones cut the fingers off leave the pinky and it won't read your palm.

Btw the surface you can load to a cloud for more storage and just like the apple you can pick that image up to any computer. Helps me at times since I use the laptop as a finishing for text.

hope that helps a little I am no expert just my experience with these

[maxzaguishi]

I have a wacom bamboo tablet and never me to disappointed I really like is simple but it accomplishes its work

[KreativeConfusion]

Have you considered the Surface pro? It's pricey and I'm not sure about the storage but it works just fine as far as I know.The only thing that sucks is the price, but honestly its less then a cintiq and only a little more then an iPad with the most storage space so you have that.

[MrLewk]

I use a tablet for all my comic drawing now -- so convenient! I use the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2" it's got high spec, loads of room and I shoved a 64GB SD card in it just to be sure. Drawing wise, I use medibang pro for everything. I tried SO many apps to find a decent drawing one that didn't cost the earth. I like medibang because it can go up to 600dpi and has cloud storage so you can import your projects to the cloud, then go to medibang on your laptop, sync it up and/or export to PSD if you wanna stick it in photoshop if you're more familiar with that.

[Sanz]

thanks for all your suggestions !! I Surface is WAY to much. Im breaking off from apple also getting to be too much. so I settled on Samsung galaxy tab a with the s pen and it works GREAT !!I'd recommend it to anyone.

[MrLewk]

S pen is amazingly accurate! I love it. You won't regret the Samsung

[Shanny8]

Sorry I cant even help. I'm pretty much stuck in this dilemma as well. I wanna get a tablet(preferably a Surface) but the more storage space/memory/faster processing speed you want, the higher the price gets. I dont want to pay upwards of $2000 plus on a tablet, but it looks like it's inevitable(coz I want USB plugins and be able to run Photoshop & Clip Studio on it as well).

[Dariru]

If you're looking for a tablet that's not too big, but can run the software you need, I recommend an ASUS EEE Slate EP121. It's a bit old so you can get it for under $500 and is a full windows PC with a Wacom digitizer. I've been using one for the past few years to do full comic pages (11x17 at 600dpi) with Manga Studio (photoshop works but can run rather sluggish). You can do stuff like this with no issues:

[Sanz]

I wasn't feeling the surface for the price. I bought one...but this WAS when it first came out it may have changed It was super glitchy and kinda reminded me of an over grown windows phone yeah it's suppose to be able to run photoshop. but the amount of apps in the play store if you get android. that do pretty much the same thing drawing wise. i returned it the next day and tried out the Ipad air....which still didn't work for me. the apps I was using that i preferred at the time didn't have palm rejection with my stylus. and I really didn't want to spend more money on a stylus that i would most likely loose, Returned that and went with the Ipad Mini 2. which worked really well the small size allowed me to just rest my hand outside the thing. When I posted this I saw the market value went down on it from the last time I checked by 40$ meaning time to sell and get a new one. so I got the Samsung tab a ...and its awesome Like I said about the s pen smooth accurate, and light and has a little spot to keep it in the tablet so you never loose it! it was only 350. in comparison to surface 2 k and Ipad 500-1200. +100$ ipen. I hope you find one that works out for you too!