Admin Post: Community Check-In for October 2020

[goss]

Today's the last day of October, and we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you this past month?

Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities in October, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you currently trying to meet a deadline? Feel free to share upcoming challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on.

It's the final day of Drawtober! \o/ Happy 31st October, and Happy Halloween to those who celebrate! :D

Comments

[yhlee]

The biggest difference from my standpoint is that it has menus. This makes for a cluttery interface, because it's directly ported over from the desktop version of the app. But that makes it easier for me to learn, because I started out with the desktop version and moreover it's much easier to find something in a menu than to try to memorize hopeless endless variations of gesture commands.

Otherwise, Clip Studio has specific tools for drawing comics (it was written for doing manga), like panels and speech bubbles and whatnot, while Procreate's mainly for painting. I suspect Procreate of having a better brush engine for natural media simulation (I haven't had a chance to look at whatever new brushes there are in Clip Studio, it's been a few years). Both of them support animation, but Procreate's workflow is kind of nontraditional whereas Clip Studio's is closer to what you would get from a more traditional animation app with timelines and keyframes and camera moves and whatever. You can do animation in Procreate, but I don't think it supports camera moves at all, and Clip Studio lets you import sound files (e.g. for animating speech) while I'm pretty sure Procreate doesn't support that at this juncture.

The big disadvantage of Clip Studio is that it's a monthly subscription (or you can pay it yearly), and Procreate is a one-time purchase. So Clip Studio is very definitely much more expensive. I'm resigned to software all going subscription at this point. :/ But I can afford it, and the tools are easier for me to use for certain projects, so.