Procreate vs Photoshop for line art - Procreate won by a mile

I spent 3 months doing all my comic pages in Photoshop because everyone said it was the industry standard. Switched to Procreate last week after a buddy dared me to try it, and the difference in brush feel is insane. My lines stopped looking stiff and shaky because the iPad screen just responds better to hand pressure. Has anyone else found a tablet app that beats desktop software for actual drawing?

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the_riley13d ago

oh man, that brush feel difference is no joke. i spent years hunched over a desktop with photoshop too, and my lines always had this tiny bit of lag or something. same thing happened when i tried clip studio paint on an ipad pro. the screen just lets your hand flow way better. you might also want to mess with the streamline settings in procreate if you haven't already, i found that dialing it in helped clean up my wobbly lines even more. honestly, the only reason i keep photoshop around is for color work and final output stuff, but for the actual drawing part? it's hard to beat that direct screen response.

rodriguez.diana12d ago

oh totally, "dialing in the streamline settings" is exactly what i needed to hear. i was so frustrated with wobbly lines when i first got my ipad, i nearly threw it out the window. i had no idea there was a slider for that in procreate. once i found it and turned it up just a little, my lines went from shaky to smooth without feeling too automated. the_riley is right about the screen too, that direct contact completely changes how your hand moves. i actually kept photoshop for the same reason for a while, but eventually i just started doing all my color work in procreate too once i got the hang of it. the brush delay on a desktop is something you don't realize is holding you back until you try a screen that actually keeps up.