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Remember when we talked about that iPad app called Paper, from FiftyThree, that lets you sketch, draw diagrams and illustrations, and take notes? Well, they’ve made it even easier to use that app with the help of Pencil, a wireless tool that lets you do all of the things a regular pencil would, just on your iPad. You can erase, blend, and draw all of your ideas just as you would on paper but with the convenience and ease of today’s technology.
Pencil is available in two models – Walnut, which is made from sustainable hardwood, and Graphite, that’s made from brushed aluminum.
The pencil-like tip makes it easier when you’re trying to draw so you don’t have to use the tip of your finger.
Pencil comes with a long-lasting, lithium-ion battery that can be recharged with any USB port in under 90 minutes. A single charge should last approximately a month.
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22 Comments
Justus on 11.28.2013 at 18:21 PM
This sounds like a parody about people that forgot to use real paper
Wayne Perterson on 11.28.2013 at 19:51 PM
Great product, great video. Thanks. What is the background music for the video.
Thanks,
Wayne
Pertti y on 11.29.2013 at 06:34 AM
I just hope they get rid of that terrible circular undo rewind in the progress.
Guillaume Wiatr on 11.29.2013 at 08:44 AM
Only works with retina screen iPads :((…
Alexander Leopold on 11.29.2013 at 17:53 PM
You guys smply don’t get it, don’t You? A pencil is a pencil and works just on and with paper or any similar structured material. The art (the sketch) is created not only by the pencil but also by what the pencil is writing on. And even the underground under the paper is part of the creation process. What You do there is painting with a strange kind of stick on a plain glass surface. Nothing else. It is as dull as the results that You get out of that. If You are not able anymore to work with real pencils and real paper on a real underground (poor You…) then use at least a graphic tablet to get approximately the feeling of a structured material. Generally I suggest that i-pad users should go on “playing” with their device and leave the serious work to the professionals with the right equipment and skills. And don’t forget to pay them the fee that they deserve for keeping up and developing techniques which i-pad users obviously will never learn or even understand.
Eke krug on 12.02.2013 at 04:20 AM
I totally agree with you, there’s nothing like pencils and paper, and especially the aroma that is spread when you grind a point on the pencil. Drawing programs and tools for this are fun to play, but do you want your soul into your work, you have to do it the old fashioned way …
Shane on 12.02.2013 at 12:21 PM
I do appreciate what you are saying, but let’s take your response and tweak it: “The art (the sketch) is created not only by the ‘crushed berries and sticks’ but also by ‘the cave walls and stone’ the ‘crushed berries and sticks are’ writing on.” Should we also have stopped with the harpsichord and lute? It’s a new tool. There IS something beautiful and unique about pencil to paper. This is still exciting. But in the long run, any failings of this medium will likely be those of the artist, not the tool.
Pam on 12.03.2013 at 13:19 PM
I agree with you Leopold but I also agree with Shane. We can’t deny the new tools. Kids are growing in schools with iPads and lot of gadgets. It’s great for creative development and there’s so much to explore. I have pencils, brushes, and all kind of paiting material and notebook, a graphic tablet etc and even that I love play in a tablet and I will love play with a Pencil because on iPads has apps that estimulates our creativity.
randy warren on 12.17.2013 at 00:37 AM
As we evolve so do our tools. I have always felt that CAD drawings have no soul, that is why I always felt connection to hand draw. But upon discovering that when I put my ego aside, every thing becomes a tool. Based on our ability to adapt and learn. What is comfortable to our tactile responses, I found “pencil” fell into that realm for me. Soul is what YOU put into your tool of expression…..a bit point or a Clovis point….it is your skill expressed to share with others.
John Molnar on 12.03.2013 at 09:52 AM
Right On !!!!
M. Raidoff on 12.04.2013 at 15:40 PM
If a pencil and paper suits your needs, that’s awesome, but jeez man, open your mind a little. You don’t see any benefit to using layers, opacity, zoom, the undo button, etc, etc?
Or having complete control over the size of a stroke, or being able to drop in a perfect line or shape or block of text? Or being able to bring in an image and trace over it? And you don’t see why working in vector art has tremendous benefits you’ll never get from pencil and paper?
And you don’t see the benefit of creating something entirely digitally if the final product is going to be on the web, broadcast, in a video game, etc? Being able to work in accurate colors from the beginning, bypassing scanning altogether, etc etc?
And you don’t see that a tablet is a useful tool for things beyond art creation? I mean just on a basic and related level it’s a great way to present art to a client. Multiply that usefulness by a thousand if you want to put on a slide show or show a piece with animation.
And you don’t realize that, while a #2 pencil and a ream of copy paper may be quite cheap, quality art supplies are really, really expensive? Especially if you’re working in color? Like, this stylus probably costs as much as a decent set of technical pens OR coptic markers OR oil paints…
All that said I do think you’re better off with a wacom enabled screen like a Galaxy Note tablet or, if you’re loaded, a Cintiq Companion or something instead of an iPad with a kludgy hack of a pen that will never be all that accurate, but if you have an iPad already this or something like it could be good enough.
randy warren on 12.17.2013 at 00:38 AM
Right on!!!
Irysa on 12.20.2013 at 04:12 AM
Honestly, you sound, frightened, guarded & angry..might be helpful (FOR YOU) to ask yourself why? With a pencil: without a pencil, with paper; without paper: TALENT Is the key ingredient needed. Let people use whatever they choose, you go on about your business; everyone happy. Right?
Allan E. Vanderley, AIA on 12.01.2013 at 07:59 AM
SUPERB! As a architect and industrial designer it is the product I have been thinking of designing since 1986.And yet my career diverged into architecture.Since the Newton/iPad came out I figured it was a matter of time before your product came out! The PENCIL/PAPER app’ is what I have been waiting for all my life.[They called me “the HAND” when I was an intern architect].
lisa t on 12.02.2013 at 00:16 AM
Oh: a STYLUS. I get it @@
thejoyofcolor on 12.02.2013 at 08:13 AM
I want it
Richard Risemberg on 12.02.2013 at 11:02 AM
So you need several hundred dollars of energy-intensive “today’s technology” to duplicate badly what a 10¢ pencil can do on a piece of recycled paper?
Obviously I use computers–I grew up around them; my father was one of the first to design buildings using CAD, back in the punch-card days–but I accept that not everything is done better by them. I love rail travel too, but that doesn’t mean I get on a train to go three blocks to the drugstore.
Allan Vanderley on 12.02.2013 at 12:18 PM
wise-ass!
M. Raidoff on 12.04.2013 at 15:54 PM
Do you really only see this as the equivalent of a cheap pencil and recycled paper? You don’t know what’s possible with an app like Procreate? Or see the benefit of being able to do a full-color mixed medium sketch in minutes that can be instantly brought into Photoshop or Illustrator?
There’s certainly something to working on physical media of course, and I see why many people prefer it- and of course if you’re creating art that will hang on a gallery wall or something digital isn’t really an option- but I’m really kind of astonished by the luddite attitude of a lot of people here.
Tim Ball on 12.02.2013 at 12:30 PM
A perfect example of how to over engineer a problem that actually doesn’t exist.
What’s wrong with a real pencil and paper?
Adams Namayi on 12.03.2013 at 10:07 AM
This i-pencil will bring back sanity in the creative minds. creative thinkers tool of trade is back. Thanks so so much. Ooh my, thank you.
randy warren on 12.17.2013 at 00:47 AM
M. Raidoff, thank you! You are right on target with other product, ( tools), that provide a way to express or share and convey the thought process. Depending on ones ability and willingness to experience the variety of product and platforms available to design with. Love this thread of thought and sharing. Yes I still love the tactile tooth of HB lead on paper medium when I feel the need to create in that medium.
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