This way you will always have a clean path.ĭirect selection tool: once you made your path, with the direct selection tool you can easily adjust the anchor points. One tip I have is when you want to close your path, stop drawing a few millimeters from the end point, and it will close the path automatically and as a smooth line. Depending on the smoothing of the pencil tool that you choose, the path will follow the lines you are drawing by hand. Pencil tool: it is a very intuitive tool together with the Apple Pencil. But this first version really surprised me with the features already available. It is impossible to expect that Illustrator on the iPad will have the same features as on the desktop. So for this feature alone I am a big fan already!įeatures I like in Illustrator on the iPad

no clipping masks are applied and you don’t have to rearrange all your elements, layers and groups. The advantage you also have is that the layers you make on the iPad or the desktop stay the same. After closing your file on the iPad, you just open it on the desktop and start working in the same document. That way you don’t even have to export your file. When you make a document on the iPad, it automatically saves it in the cloud. So, of course, the first thing I had to try out is exporting my file to Illustrator on the desktop. So I set my hope on Illustrator on the iPad.

But when I had to import my elements in Illustrator on the desktop, it took me a lot of time to turn it into a workable document.

I have tried lots of different ones like Adobe Draw, Vectornator, Affinity Designer, Adobe Fresco,… Each of these programs do have a lot of positive qualities. A few weeks ago Adobe launched Illustrator on the iPad, and I must say that made me a happy girl! Of course I had to try it out before I could know if it really would make me happy!įor a long time I was searching for a good program to draw vector elements for my patterns.

Ipad for adobe illustrator