I made a DECISION about the Android tablet vs a new Surface Pro, which ultimately came down to the question of: do I want to be able to read comics on my new device, or write? Because Android has the Marvel Unlimited app, which Windows does not, but Windows has the Scrivener app, which Android does not.
I decided in favor of reading comics. LOL. Possibly not the world’s best choice, but OTOH, look, the Surface isn’t dead yet, and also, I CAN write in not-Scrivener, I’ve just gotten used to it. So I decided to get a Samsung Galaxy 9 FE+, which is vastly, vastly less expensive than a Pro and also came with a stylus, which I’d have to buy for the Pro. So I got the Samsung, and after some trial and error found a case for it that lets me rotate it to horizontal or vertical (necessary for reading comics easily), and now I am Pleased. Although I do need to find stickers to put on it now.
Literally the first thing I did after setting it up was read the first of Gail Simone’s run on Uncanny X-Men, and I haven’t really read the X-Men for years so I only vaguely knew what was going on, but it still gave me Feels and made me think I’d made the right choice.
The second thing I did was open up Clip Studio and do a doodle, and oh my god, the 8 year difference in stylus sensitivity is insane. Not that it’s magically made me a brilliant artist, but I did a quick, IDK, maybe ten minute version (as opposed to the half hour or so I put in before) of that “realistic human eye” task I had the other day?
The sensitivity makes it WAY WAY WAY more like drawing with a pen or pencil! I did most of this with one setting, and only changed the point size for the pen for the lil bits over at the right corner of the eye and maybe some of the iris, I forget now. But I’m THRILLED at how much more control it offered!!! I’m really looking forward to digital sketching with this!