I think the pencil is to hard. Inking is much more difficult on iPad vs my cintiq. I tried a matte protector that worked but killed the screen quality. Wacom is still my preferred stylus tech, but the Apple Pencil is a close second.for any style that uses value rather than line iPad Pro works great. I'm replacing my iPad Pro with a wacom mobile studio pro 15.6". 16gb ram, i7 processor, textured glass screen. Desktop OS and software. Bigger size is better for art, I always found the 12.9 iPad small for working long hours on. Not a big fan of any of the software packages on iOS. They get the job done, but only in basic generic ways. There is nothing close to Corel painter , photoshop or zbrush on iOS. Wacom palm rejection is superior too. I like the wacom stylus design more. Easier to hold all day long, programmable and eraser. Wacom does tilt too, and rotation. Apple only has tilt. I love the feel of wacom textured glass. So much control.
I don't like battery powered Pencil. It's always running out of juice. Wacom always just works. Plus u don't have to look like a duche in front of people or you boss while you charge your pencil. It never fails to run out when I need it.
Really it all depends on your style and needs. Both technologies are great but fit different niches. Try them both out see what you like best. Astropad is compelling, but last time I tried it, some tools were not working in photoshop, lack of buttons slowed down my workflow, and it's still a small screen. Oh and there is no color calibrated workflow on astropad or iOS. If you print art or photos, this sucks big time. Colors will be off. I calibrate on cintiq 27, and there is a lack of accuracy on my year old iPad Pro.
The offset and tracking issues on wacom are actually advantages. U can see around your hand and the pen tip. Wacom tracks perfectly. Just watch the cursor. It's just slightly offset. The new wacom msp supposedly has zero offset, I will miss it. No seasoned artists I know complains about it.
No floating cursor on iPad means less accuracy than wacom. Despite the pixel level accuracy , we still get parallax because of the screen gap on the iPad. There is a detached feeling to the iPad IMO. I zoom very far in, and that fixes accuracy issues most of the time, assuming it's a small line. I hope they do a floating cursor someday. I feel more connected to the art with it.
Heat is an issue on all tablets. My ipad pro gets hot and the battery life is really only 4-5 hours. Both fail outdoors, to dim and they get hot. But, it's much cooler than my old cintiq companion 2 was. But it's kinda silly to compare a mobile workstation built for artists to a consumer tablet, with a stylus added as a afterthought. Of course the tablet will be more popular with most people, but go to Hollywood effects studios or games studios- they all run cintiqs because they are designed for professional artists.
That said, you can do some impressive paintings on the iPad Pro. I love mine for sketching in bed or coffee shops. It's much more portable than a cintiq companion. I know a couple illustrators who do most of their work on the iPad pro. Their stuff is amazing. But it's built for pleasurable experience, not speedy workflows.
We run osx and some windows 10 computers. Seems like they crash about the same now. Shoot, sometimes even procreate on iOS crashes on me. I'm OS agnostic , they seem almost identical now days. I mostly care about hardware, the software nowadays is so good from both companies it just works.
