• Technology for Sketching

    I have previously posted about sketching on an iPad and how you can use technology to improve your sketching. I created a Youtube movie to show how this was possible, and several people took me to task, saying that tracing is not sketching. It turns out that the old masters…

  • Sketching on the iPad Again

    I am reading a book I haven’t looked at for many years “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards. This is a great book about drawing and sketching, along with her other book “Drawing on the Artist Within.” In both books she focuses on sketching as…

  • Sketching on an iPad

    If you get my newsletter you would have seen this sketch (all images copyright Jonathan Pickup 2016). This sketch is from my trip to Chicago for the design summit and it was drawn on my iPad. I have been using my iPad, Apple Pencil and sketching software (Procreate).

  • iPad Stylus 2 – Pencil by 53

    This is supposed to be a great stylus and my friend Neil says that his works really well. But I have had terrible results with it. I got it to connect at first, but now it won’t connect to my iPad. Even when I did get it to connect, I…

  • iPad Stylus 1

    I have been looking for a stylus for my iPad/Tablet so that I can use it to create sketches. I create a lot of sketches (usually to show a Vectorworks concept) and lately i have been creating 100’s of sketches for a course that I was writing for the Open…