Apple Pencil vs Wacom Intuos Art Pen & Touch Tablet

What, I guess, am trying to state is the traditional digitiser touch pen and digitising tablet is NOT better than drawing on an iPad or iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil or third party smart, Bluetooth stylus. It is sort of a step down from that, NOT a step up, and takes more hand/eye and keyboard coordination to master.

It is accurate and you CAN develop the skills to work with a digitiser pen and tablet, but there are other alternatives that take some of the frustration away.

Another option is wait to see what Apple plans for new model iPads this year.

Instead of the more expensive iPad Pro and Apple Pencil set up, you could purchase and use a cheaper, regular, non-pro, 9.7 inch screen iPad and use a third party, smart Bluetooth stylus, instead.

For a good functioning, well built smart Bluetooth stylus that works well with a non-pro iPad, I strongly and honestly recommend an Adonit Pixel stylus direct from Adonit.

The Pixel is a smart, Bluetooth stylus that works across a large crossection of iOS iDevices.

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

The ONLY real drawback with the Adonit Pixel is that it works only with about 2 dozen, or so apps, but these apps are the fairly major and popular drawing/sketching/painting/ideation apps, as well as, some of the more popular notes/writing/handwriting/PDF editing apps.

I use an Adonit Pixel/Pixel Pro with my 2 year old iPad Pro and I absolutely love mine.

Adonit makes a Pixel stylus for regular iDevices and a Pixel Pro version exclusively for all iPad Pro models.

Once again, Good Luck to You!

If this is a traditional art pen and drawing tablet, it is not really the same.

Traditional digital drawing tablets, like a Wacom Intous or Bamboo tablet you have to develop a hand/eye coordination to use the pen and digitizer and watch what is happening on screen.

The precision and accuracy is there, but there is a learning curve and adjustment time to using these traditional digitising tablets and digitiser pens.

What is better and closer to the experience of an iPad and Apple Pencil is a visual monitor graphics drawing tablet, instead.

I do not what your budget is, but Wacom is too expensive an option for those types of monitor tablets that you draw directly on a seperate monitor with a digitizer technology built into the screen.

Wacom's line of monitor style graphic drawing tablets are called Cintiq.

Wacom charges are high end premium ($800 all the way to $2000-$3000) for their monitor style drawing

There is a lot of good cheaper competition out their now for these style digital monitor graphics drawing tablets.

I am not sure of what you can afford to spend but there are a lot 13 and 16 inch monitor style drawing tablets that sell for well under $500, now and many are quite good.

There are a few 22” inch screen monitor graphic drawing tablets that sell for under $500, also.

These types on tablets where you can see and interact with your computer screen using another pen sensitive touch monitor/digitiser screen comes closest to the iPad/Apple Pencil experience.

Look at ones on Amazon.com from

Parblo Coast

Huion

Artisul

These manufacturers of graphic monitor style drawing tablets have been reviewed by online artists on YouTube to be some of the the better competitors to Wacom on both price, quality and performance of these style of tablets.

Make sure in the description to make sure they are compatible with Macs and Mac OS.