[Daub]

I teach digital painting, and Procreate is slowly becoming my enemy. I fully appreciate its ease of use, its fantastic union with Apple Pen and certainly my students love it. But doing design/creative work on a small screen is not healthy, especially for complex images. neither is it easy to maintain a complex workflow, such as that required by matt painting and multi-layer compositing. Also, any presence of tablets in a design teaching lab is never pretty... I can't easily review their files or integrate their output into a pro desktop app.

[dagmx]

The other advantage to procreate+ipad is that it’s easy to take with you. It’s effectively the new sketchbook.

It’s just nice to be able to draw on the go or not be tied to a Cintiq.

You can connect the iPad to a larger screen and use it like a Cintiq though.

It’s definitely not fully featured enough for more complex art but the appeal is more than just the accessibility.

Almost all my professional concept artist friends have switched over, but I agree it’s not a great fit for matte paintings.

[cosmic_cheese]

Cost is likely another big reason it’s popular with students. A $13 one time purchase is hard to beat… even with edu pricing Adobe CC quickly gets more expensive. Clip Studio Paint falls somewhere in the middle.