Best handwriting experience with Apple Pencil?

Luxthor

@richardyot said:
Some sample images from the comic:

Please continue! Brilliant! 🤩

PS: I still need to read everything.

mrufino1

@richardyot said:
Goodnotes 6 can be purchased for a one-time price of $29, so at least there is that option. I'm still on version 5, I don't think I need to upgrade. I use the app for basic note-taking and to script my comic book, the older version still has everything I need.

There is an upgrade price for going from 5 to 6. I don’t remember what it is, but I bought it a few weeks ago. Goodnotes is indispensable for me, but I’d rather pay for updates than subscribe, so I’m glad that is an option.

I take notes with handwriting for just about everything, and dislike typing a lot. As a person with ADHD, Goodnotes really helps me keep everything together and I don’t lose papers that way.

richardyot

@Pxlhg said:
Really cool drawings @richardyot ! You have some amazing multi-talent, are you still active on the Modo scene as well? Personally I miss 3D but it just get's too much (although I've taken up After Effect again after many years absence, great software).

I'm still active on what's left of the Modo scene, I make my living selling assets and tutorials for Modo, but sadly the software is dying so I need to switch to Blender. I do 3D most working days though, it's my main bread-and-butter discipline. Music and comics I do for art

PS thanks for the nice words @echoopera @Gavinski and @Luxthor

My aim for the comic is to compete it in the next 5-6 years, I work on it 4 evenings a week for around half an hour. I might eventually submit it to Fantagraphics, they publish stuff in that vein.

day_empire

@Gavinski said:
There are a lot of note taking / writing apps out there. I am trying to find ones I like the ‘feel’ of. So far my favourite in terms of how it makes my handwriting look and feel is the fountain pen choice inside NoteShelf 3. What lets this app down for me is that it seems very limited in the colours it offers you.

Moleskine Flow has a very beautiful implementation for choosing colours but I can’t get my handwriting to look as nice using it. It also doesn’t have the ‘bite’ I’m after.

INKredible makes my writing look nice and it feels good to use but it has a weird kind of lag between the actual time of writing and the appearance of the characters.

So basically I am looking for:

An experience similar to using a quality fountain pen, preferably with a range of nibs. Something that looks and feels like a ballpoint pen will not satisfy

Ideally, some control over the wetness / dryness of the ‘ink’

The right amount of resistance / ‘bite’ from the virtual paper, while writing, without the accompaniment of any weird visual lag.

Lots of colour options, customizable but quick to dial in

I know lots of people here use their iPad for art etc as well as making music, so am looking forward to hearing people’s views and experience. I’m sure, like everything, a lot comes down to taste, which is why I’ve tried to be as specific as possible about what I personally am looking for.

I use Procreate. It's an art app but has a variety of pens and brushes. The calligraphy pens work nice.

Luxthor

@richardyot said:

@Pxlhg said:
Really cool drawings @richardyot ! You have some amazing multi-talent, are you still active on the Modo scene as well? Personally I miss 3D but it just get's too much (although I've taken up After Effect again after many years absence, great software).

I'm still active on what's left of the Modo scene, I make my living selling assets and tutorials for Modo, but sadly the software is dying so I need to switch to Blender. I do 3D most working days though, it's my main bread-and-butter discipline. Music and comics I do for art

PS thanks for the nice words @echoopera @Gavinski and @Luxthor

My aim for the comic is to compete it in the next 5-6 years, I work on it 4 evenings a week for around half an hour. I might eventually submit it to Fantagraphics, they publish stuff in that vein.

LightWave was my main tool for years; from ’97 to ’05, I had an online gallery and lots of rewards. The Internet and 3D art were small place back then. Modo is a great tool. I was there when all the drama happened and Allen, Stuart, and Brad left NewTek. I also moved to Blender. It's a fantastic tool, you will not regret it.

richardyot

@Luxthor said:

@richardyot said:

@Pxlhg said:
Really cool drawings @richardyot ! You have some amazing multi-talent, are you still active on the Modo scene as well? Personally I miss 3D but it just get's too much (although I've taken up After Effect again after many years absence, great software).

I'm still active on what's left of the Modo scene, I make my living selling assets and tutorials for Modo, but sadly the software is dying so I need to switch to Blender. I do 3D most working days though, it's my main bread-and-butter discipline. Music and comics I do for art

PS thanks for the nice words @echoopera @Gavinski and @Luxthor

My aim for the comic is to compete it in the next 5-6 years, I work on it 4 evenings a week for around half an hour. I might eventually submit it to Fantagraphics, they publish stuff in that vein.

LightWave was my main tool for years; from ’97 to ’05, I had an online gallery and lots of rewards. The Internet and 3D art were small place back then. Modo is a great tool. I was there when all the drama happened and Allen, Stuart, and Brad left NewTek. I also moved to Blender. It's a fantastic tool, you will not regret it.

I’m already using Blender but I need to build my profile in the Blender community, people who use Modo know me, but that’s not the case for Blender.

I was good friends IRL with Brad ten or so years ago, but I’ve lost touch with him since he joined Apple.

echoopera

Ahh the good old days. I use to make banners and brochures for Siggraph for Newtek back in the day.

Luxthor

@richardyot said:

@Luxthor said:

@richardyot said:

@Pxlhg said:
Really cool drawings @richardyot ! You have some amazing multi-talent, are you still active on the Modo scene as well? Personally I miss 3D but it just get's too much (although I've taken up After Effect again after many years absence, great software).

I'm still active on what's left of the Modo scene, I make my living selling assets and tutorials for Modo, but sadly the software is dying so I need to switch to Blender. I do 3D most working days though, it's my main bread-and-butter discipline. Music and comics I do for art

PS thanks for the nice words @echoopera @Gavinski and @Luxthor

My aim for the comic is to compete it in the next 5-6 years, I work on it 4 evenings a week for around half an hour. I might eventually submit it to Fantagraphics, they publish stuff in that vein.

LightWave was my main tool for years; from ’97 to ’05, I had an online gallery and lots of rewards. The Internet and 3D art were small place back then. Modo is a great tool. I was there when all the drama happened and Allen, Stuart, and Brad left NewTek. I also moved to Blender. It's a fantastic tool, you will not regret it.

I’m already using Blender but I need to build my profile in the Blender community, people who use Modo know me, but that’s not the case for Blender.

What I like the most in Blender is Grease-Pencil. I am also going to make my music videos around point clouds and photogrammetry. We now have lidars and all that power in our pockets. Maybe you can attract music video-making artists with all that knowledge of yours in both fields.

I was good friends IRL with Brad ten or so years ago, but I’ve lost touch with him since he joined Apple.

Brad was the best spokesman and tutorial maker NewTek ever had.

Luxthor

@echoopera said:
Ahh the good old days. I use to make banners and brochures for Siggraph for Newtek back in the day.

That was a true accomplishment; those works must have been ahead of their time! 🤩

echoopera

@Luxthor said:

@echoopera said:
Ahh the good old days. I use to make banners and brochures for Siggraph for Newtek back in the day.

That was a true accomplishment; those works must have been ahead of their time! 🤩

I had access to some of the best artists works so it was easy to respect and showcase that work.
Not sure if you saw this one back in the day:

klownshed

This isn’t a suggestion as a note taking app, but might be of interest to some of you as it has some crossover — if you don’t already know of it

https://concepts.app/en/

Concepts is a cool left field choice. It’s not a note app as such but is great for visual notes. It’s got all kinds of different brushes/pens including fountain pens, uses an ‘infinite’ canvas and has drawing guides which make it fun to use as a technical drawing app. It’s vector based so you can edit easily.

I like writing with it, mainly for annotating drawings in my case.

It’s a cool app for all kinds of sketching including drawing to scale.

It has a subscription model but you can also unlock ‘pro’ features with one time IAPs too.

I use apple notes for actual notes — I used to use notability but notes has got so good it’s pointless not to use it as my main notes app.

But I use concepts for drawing a lot as I often need to sketch to scale and it makes a nice change from sterile 2D CAD.

klownshed

@richardyot said:

@tja said:

@richardyot said:
Goodnotes 6 can be purchased for a one-time price of $29, so at least there is that option. I'm still on version 5, I don't think I need to upgrade. I use the app for basic note-taking and to script my comic book, the older version still has everything I need.

Oh, nice!

What kind of comic?
Will it be public once?

It's a pretty weird comic

A personal project which I have worked on (on and off) for about ten years. I made a thread about it back in 2020.

You can read it here, at least the parts that I have completed so far:

https://itchy-animation.com/gideon-gray

I update my progress on Instagram (I also sometimes post my music there):

https://www.instagram.com/richard_yot/

Some sample images from the comic:

These are fantastic!

Luxthor

@echoopera said:

@Luxthor said:

@echoopera said:
Ahh the good old days. I use to make banners and brochures for Siggraph for Newtek back in the day.

That was a true accomplishment; those works must have been ahead of their time! 🤩

I had access to some of the best artists works so it was easy to respect and showcase that work.
Not sure if you saw this one back in the day:

I remember a few illustrations, but the layout is remarkable. Great work!

Krupa

@richardyot said:

@Luxthor said:

@richardyot said:

@Pxlhg said:
Really cool drawings @richardyot ! You have some amazing multi-talent, are you still active on the Modo scene as well? Personally I miss 3D but it just get's too much (although I've taken up After Effect again after many years absence, great software).

I'm still active on what's left of the Modo scene, I make my living selling assets and tutorials for Modo, but sadly the software is dying so I need to switch to Blender. I do 3D most working days though, it's my main bread-and-butter discipline. Music and comics I do for art

PS thanks for the nice words @echoopera @Gavinski and @Luxthor

My aim for the comic is to compete it in the next 5-6 years, I work on it 4 evenings a week for around half an hour. I might eventually submit it to Fantagraphics, they publish stuff in that vein.

LightWave was my main tool for years; from ’97 to ’05, I had an online gallery and lots of rewards. The Internet and 3D art were small place back then. Modo is a great tool. I was there when all the drama happened and Allen, Stuart, and Brad left NewTek. I also moved to Blender. It's a fantastic tool, you will not regret it.

I’m already using Blender but I need to build my profile in the Blender community, people who use Modo know me, but that’s not the case for Blender.

I was good friends IRL with Brad ten or so years ago, but I’ve lost touch with him since he joined Apple.

I’ve been using blender in professional work from film and TV to stadiums and art galleries for twenty years now, and it’s just been great the whole way through, and nowadays the market for assets and plugins is pretty hot, you’ll love it 😊