Hi, really enjoy your videos. Can i ask if you have ditched the cintiq completely for the ipad? I see all your new videos are with the iPad and ios specific software. I have tried to get into using ipad for a while now to do my sketches on sketchbook (formerly Autodesk sketchbook) but keep having to get back to windows based version as all our engineering software/systems are windows based and find linking of the iPad to files on windows to be painful or just not workable in a professional environment. Procreate looks great but can't get it for windows. Also end up sketching live on screen for virtual meetings to share ideas and cant do that with ipad so i don't feel i get enough use from ipad for all those reasons. I guess if all your systems are on mac then maybe its better but would appreciate any tips you have re file linking between systems. While not a sketching software, i find onenote to be excellent as the 'notebboks' are automatically synched between ipad and windows. Also Have you used affinity photo in any of your work? If you have, i would, love to see your set up and how you get on.
Hey there, yeah over the past couple years I've transitioned completely to my ipad, but note that I'm in more of a leadership role where I do more sketching/managing/directing my studio, and I have a great team of designers working under me working on multiple large scale international projects. My team uses all of the industry standard software for our projects, but I still encourage them to use their ipads for sketching and design thinking. Our office is windows based and primarily uses Revit, Rhino, Sketchup and the Adobe suite. At home I'm Mac based. There are definitely many frustrations getting content between windows (ugh microsoft teams!) and the ipad, but there are many instances where it's now engrained into my daily work, maybe I'll make a video about my workarounds for this in the future. But for very large pdfs I'll drop them onto the cloud from my desktop, and open it up on the Files app on my ipad to open in Procreate. For small pdfs, I'll email it to myself then open it directlly in Procreate or Morpholio Trace. For daily quick sketches with my team I will take a picture of what they have on their monitor and sketch over it on my ipad, then copy/paste it into Teams to send back to them. For online presentations, I actually do use my ipad and sketch live during client and consultant calls. Procreate actually handles heavy multi-page pdfs much, much faster than my PC, see my previous video where I touch on this. Regarding One Note, that was my default app for notes for several years and I loved how it synched between all of my devices, however it started to lag as my content in it got heavier (I started to accumulate many screenshots, sketches, images). Last Dec I switched to Notion, and I must say its leaps and bounds above One Note. It took a while to get used to a new system/way of organizing notes, but I actually love Notion now. Regarding Affinity, I never really got into it, as our office has always been heavily Adobe based. Hope that helps, you've given me some ideas on some topics I should cover in the future, thank you!
Thanks for your detailed response. Must try notion. Yeah just alot of organising required to prepare to start sketching on iPad ie you need to make sure that you have copied all the files you need from windows which doesn't suit the random day to day sketching or marking up drawings that I do which all come from other windows based software. Re calls on ms teams - the iPad can't access our windows based server so unless you are completely prepared for call and you know what you need to sketch (unless you are presenting a sketch), you are goosed. We are engineering office primarily who also dabble in industrial architecture and the general nature of my sketching varies from problem solving on screen to site layouts to service layouts to concept building layouts and elevations to structural layouts and details. It is not as pure as the beautiful sketch arrangements that I've seen you do but I would love to get to that level. My sketches are much more basic and just try to focus on the communication of our ideas. Would love to find a software that I could use across all platforms and just focus on mastering it. Just too many that work on iPad but not on windows. Have affinity photo but yet to get to grips with sketching on it - doesn't seem to be able to scale on it like Photoshop. Yet to see another engineer or architect using it for this purpose on UA-cam. Sketchbook is ok but has other set of problems. Adobe is robbery and my team wouldn't get the value out of it. Anyhow, keep up the good work! I look forward to your next videos.
I was looking for the links in the description… forget them? Aside from that, loved all the suggestions
I passed out too early last night! Just posted them now, enjoy!
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Hi, really enjoy your videos. Can i ask if you have ditched the cintiq completely for the ipad? I see all your new videos are with the iPad and ios specific software. I have tried to get into using ipad for a while now to do my sketches on sketchbook (formerly Autodesk sketchbook) but keep having to get back to windows based version as all our engineering software/systems are windows based and find linking of the iPad to files on windows to be painful or just not workable in a professional environment. Procreate looks great but can't get it for windows. Also end up sketching live on screen for virtual meetings to share ideas and cant do that with ipad so i don't feel i get enough use from ipad for all those reasons. I guess if all your systems are on mac then maybe its better but would appreciate any tips you have re file linking between systems. While not a sketching software, i find onenote to be excellent as the 'notebboks' are automatically synched between ipad and windows. Also Have you used affinity photo in any of your work? If you have, i would, love to see your set up and how you get on.
Hey there, yeah over the past couple years I've transitioned completely to my ipad, but note that I'm in more of a leadership role where I do more sketching/managing/directing my studio, and I have a great team of designers working under me working on multiple large scale international projects. My team uses all of the industry standard software for our projects, but I still encourage them to use their ipads for sketching and design thinking. Our office is windows based and primarily uses Revit, Rhino, Sketchup and the Adobe suite. At home I'm Mac based. There are definitely many frustrations getting content between windows (ugh microsoft teams!) and the ipad, but there are many instances where it's now engrained into my daily work, maybe I'll make a video about my workarounds for this in the future. But for very large pdfs I'll drop them onto the cloud from my desktop, and open it up on the Files app on my ipad to open in Procreate. For small pdfs, I'll email it to myself then open it directlly in Procreate or Morpholio Trace. For daily quick sketches with my team I will take a picture of what they have on their monitor and sketch over it on my ipad, then copy/paste it into Teams to send back to them. For online presentations, I actually do use my ipad and sketch live during client and consultant calls. Procreate actually handles heavy multi-page pdfs much, much faster than my PC, see my previous video where I touch on this. Regarding One Note, that was my default app for notes for several years and I loved how it synched between all of my devices, however it started to lag as my content in it got heavier (I started to accumulate many screenshots, sketches, images). Last Dec I switched to Notion, and I must say its leaps and bounds above One Note. It took a while to get used to a new system/way of organizing notes, but I actually love Notion now. Regarding Affinity, I never really got into it, as our office has always been heavily Adobe based. Hope that helps, you've given me some ideas on some topics I should cover in the future, thank you!
Thanks for your detailed response. Must try notion. Yeah just alot of organising required to prepare to start sketching on iPad ie you need to make sure that you have copied all the files you need from windows which doesn't suit the random day to day sketching or marking up drawings that I do which all come from other windows based software. Re calls on ms teams - the iPad can't access our windows based server so unless you are completely prepared for call and you know what you need to sketch (unless you are presenting a sketch), you are goosed. We are engineering office primarily who also dabble in industrial architecture and the general nature of my sketching varies from problem solving on screen to site layouts to service layouts to concept building layouts and elevations to structural layouts and details. It is not as pure as the beautiful sketch arrangements that I've seen you do but I would love to get to that level. My sketches are much more basic and just try to focus on the communication of our ideas. Would love to find a software that I could use across all platforms and just focus on mastering it. Just too many that work on iPad but not on windows. Have affinity photo but yet to get to grips with sketching on it - doesn't seem to be able to scale on it like Photoshop. Yet to see another engineer or architect using it for this purpose on UA-cam. Sketchbook is ok but has other set of problems. Adobe is robbery and my team wouldn't get the value out of it. Anyhow, keep up the good work! I look forward to your next videos.
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Lettering.
A (nearly) lost art!
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