Mark Ulriksen, an artist who created illustrations for New Yorker magazine for almost 20 years, says that he went from being ‘technologically illiterate’ to an iPad evangelist after buying an iPad Pro, an Apple Pencil and the drawing app Procreate …
Ulriksen told Business Insider that he felt he had no choice but to attempt to make the transition.
Friends advised him to get an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and the Procreate app, and he said he quickly understood why.
Ulriksen said that he recently discovered another advantage.
After experimenting with every brush in Procreate, he had his answer.
“And so all of a sudden it’s like, it’s the brushes! That’s how they do it. There’s texture brushes and there’s splatter brushes and there’s paint roller brushes,” Ulriksen said. “Now I’ve learned that secret.”
Check out the full piece for details of his current project: creating a new baseball card every time the San Francisco Giants win.
“What might have taken a few days to do (with a smidgen more money and even less desire) instead took a little over an hour. I copied the art, placed it in the requested format and then added to the background.”
Procreate won an Apple Design Award and is a popular choice for professional artists. It’s a $9.99 purchase from the App Store.
