After three years on a Wacom Intuus Pro medium, I finally switched to an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil and Procreate. I was skeptical — the iPad feels like a toy compared to the serious-tool aesthetic of a Wacom setup — but the drawing experience has genuinely changed my daily output.

The parallax on modern iPad Pros is minimal enough that I stopped noticing it. The portability is the real win: I draw on the train, at a cafe, in bed. My output went from maybe four sessions a week to basically every day because the barrier to starting is so low.

That said, if you're doing large-format print work or need precise Photoshop integration, the iPad has real limitations. Procreate's file management and export options are behind a desktop workflow. For professional commercial work I still touch up in Photoshop on my desktop. The iPad is where the art gets made; the Mac is where it gets finished.