Ipad mini 4 drawing pad

For introductory digital art apps that offer the least amount of complexity and are pretty good apps to do art with and get your 12 year old up and sketching/drawing/painting quicker.

I recommend either the free Tayasui Sketches School drawing app or the paid Tayasui Sketches Pro.

A few other pay apps I recommend to get your 12 year old up and drawing quickly.

In order of preference.

Colorbox Pro

Brushes

ArtSet 4 ( will work with any stylus, even though it has been updated to make use of thr Apple Pencil )

Paper by 53

Adobe Sketch ( the basic, free version

ArtRage

Sketchbook Pro

I only recommend the Adonit Pixel stylus to use with any older iPads

It works fantastic with all of the compatible apps!

It’s the ONLY third party, smart Bluetooth stylus that I can, honestly, recommend that actually works well with any iPad

http://www.adonit.net/jot/pixel/

If interested, to make sure you get the latest installed stylus firmware, you must order the Adonit Pixel stylusdirectly from the Adonit website.

This smart, Bluetooth stylus works across a wide range of iDevices.

The Bluetooth connection is stable and its Bluetooth pressure sensing technology is very smooth, natural feeling

and has consistent line drawing ability.

Plus it's a quality made, aluminum stylus with two programmable buttons.

I have been using this stylus for well over two years now and it is really good on my 4-year old iPad Pro.

This stylus works wonderfully for me.

The Adonit Pixel works with iPads all the way back to the 2012, 1st gen iPad Mini and iPad 4th generation!

Has ON/OFF/app shortcut buttons.

Has a nice fine, textured pen tip AND a nice rubber grip.

Magnetically charges, has an auto 15 minute shutdown feature ( to preserve battery life ), charges in a hour, or so.

Has both a small USB charger that that plugs into any USB charging block OR you can purchase an optional charging

dock.

I find it only lasts for anywhere between 8-12 hours, but Adonit claims up to 16 hours of continuous use on a single

charge cycle.

Made of very high quality aluminum materials.

The Adonit Pixel ONLY works with over a dozen of the major/popular drawing/sketching/painting apps (the Pixel

works with, but currently no longer “officially” supported with Procreate, but it still works and works pretty well in

Procreate ), and over a half dozen of the popular note taking/writing/PDF apps.

You WILL have to perform some pairing and setup parameters in each of the Adonit Pixel compatible apps.

You just DO NOT simply turn on Bluetooth on an iDevice and turn on the Adonit stylus and start writing/drawing.

The Adonit Pixel stylus is NOT an Apple Pencil in this regard/respect.

You have to initially Bluetooth pair the Adonit Pixel, setup the hand/palm position and in many apps, set up the stylus

screen pressure sensitivity for each and every compatible app!

Once you have, initially, done all of this, all Adonit Pixel compatible apps will remember these settings for future use!

Some Adonit Pixel users claimed their stylus doesn’t work, but it does work well IF you properly know how to set up the Adonit Pixel!

Here’s my “up to date”, comprehensive, but still incomplete, list of Adonit Pixel compatible apps for the iPad/iPad Pro.

Most apps listed support pressure sensing and palm rejection.

Compatible Adonit Pixel apps for drawing

Animation Desk

Amaziograph

Adobe Photoshop Sketch

( palm rejection ONLY, No pressure, no sensing/line variations )

ArtRage

Art Studio Pro

( fully supports the Adonit Pixel and is just as great as Procreate on the iPad )

AutoDesk SketchBook

Colored Pencil

Comic Draw

Concepts

Interactive SketchBook

Inkist

Medibang Paint

ProCreate

(Adonit is supported as an unsupported stylus, but all stylus features still work, palm rejection IS improved using special, non-body electrical conducting, lycra-based material drawing glove )

Tayasui Sketches/Sketches Pro

( Full support for the Adonit Pixel )

Tayasui Sketches School

( this new, free version works with this stylus, but without any palm rejection or pressure sensing, so you need to use a special, non-body electrical conducting drawing glove with the Sketches School version to lay your hand/palm down on the iPad’s screen )

Vectornator

ZenBrush/Zen Brush 2

Compatible Adonit Pixel apps for Notes and Notes with drawing types of apps.

GoodNotes 4 or 5

Notability

( palm rejection noticeably improved using special, non-body electrical conducting, lycra-based material drawing glove )

Note Shelf 2

Notes Writer

( palm rejection improved using special, non- electrical conducting, lycra-based material drawing glove )

QuickNotes X Pro ( palm rejection ONLY. No pressure sensing for light/dark or thin/thick lines )

uPad

Zoom Notes

PDF Pen

The Adonit Pixel stylus works with other non-compatible apps, too, but without any palm rejection and/or pressure features.

You can use this stylus with other apps but will not be able to lay your palm on the screen, unless you use special, non-body electrical conducting, lycra-based material drawing glove that works by isolating your hand/palm and allow you to lay your hand/palm on the screen as you draw in these non-compatible Adonit stylus apps.

Something like this found on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Anti-fouling- Drawing-Tablet-Graphic-Right-Ha nd-Left- Hand/dp/B017R8M2JY/ref=sr_1_1_sspa? ie=UTF8&qid=1543548123&sr=8-1-spons&k eywords=lycra+drawing+gloves&psc=1

Many more makers of these types of gloves on Amazon.

Best of Luck to You!