joseph_hart•1mo agoMost Upvoted

Adobe Fresco vs Procreate for line art is no contest once you try both

I spent about 6 months messing with Procreate on my iPad for digital portraits and could never get my lines to look right. Then a buddy let me borrow his Surface for a week and I tried Fresco with the vector brushes. The difference was night and day, the stabilized lines came out smooth without me having to fight the settings menu. Has anyone else switched tools just for the brush engine and found it made that much of a difference?

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bell.taylor1mo ago

I read this thing from a comic artist who said Procreate's brush engine feels like drawing with a garden hose unless you tweak the streamline settings for an hour. Switching to Fresco's vector brushes made their line art look like actual ink on paper. I had the same experience with Clip Studio's vector layers after fighting with Photoshop's brushes for years. Did you find the transition to vector lines changed how you sketch overall?

cameron7631mo ago

Man oh man, that garden hose comparison hit home hard. I spent way too long messing with Procreate's streamline sliders trying to get a decent line out of it. Tbh @bell.taylor, switching to vector brushes completely changed how I approach a sketch. I used to fight the brush instead of drawing, and now my strokes actually look like I meant them to. Clip Studio's vector layers were a game changer for me too. I can draw a messy line and just tweak the vector points afterward without redrawing the whole thing. Honestly I never went back to raster brushes after that. It just makes the whole drawing part feel less like a chore and more like actual fun.