

In short, for most illustration work that contains about 20-40 layers, procreate is excellent, intuitive, cheap and a one time purchase.If your work is a bit more complex and/or you often work on e.g. Now, I really don’t like subscription based programs (left photoshop after 20 years because affinity matured mainly because of that), but since the desktop version is really cheap (wait for the 40-50% discount) i decided to accept the 25 euro a year. It’s amazing how they managed to put this fully featured desktop app into the iPad with little compromises. Layer managent in CSP is excellent and I actually prefer some of the basic brushes in CSP over PC. Besides that, the vector layers, fill tools and rulers are all more flexible -yet less intuitive- than pro create’s. Clip studio runs big files with hundreds of layers easily, and pro create doesn’t get anywhere near. But for my work the biggest drawback is the limited amount of layers in procreate. I love procreate because of it’s intuitive interface and when I draw for fun or make a first sketch for work I often use that.

For my work it’s convenient to be able to work on my Mac and IPad, preferably within the same program and this is not possible in procreate. I’m a bit late to this thread but ended up here recently myself and have now used both extensively and thought i’d share my view on this.
