Don Lee makes paintbrushes. Only his brushes aren’t designed to go anywhere near paint. Instead, the only surface the Nomad Brush will stroke is the glassy screen of an iPad.
The Nomad Brush, which will go on sale in February, works just like any other capacitive touch-screen stylus. It has a conductive shaft and tip, only in this case the tip is made from fine bristles, not a foam or rubber nubbin.
I have been using the rubber-tipped Alupen stylus on my iPad for the last few days, and it makes a huge difference to drawing and writing on screen. Would a brush be even better?
Maybe, but perhaps not this one. A painter will use many different brushes, and not just for size but for feel. I prefer a short, worn and stubby hogs-hair brush for oil-painting, and if you’re painting watercolors you’ll need something like a sable brush that you can load up with liquid and smoothly lay it onto the paper. The Nomad looks more like a watercolor brush, and this might make it too soft to give a good feel on a screen.
The only way to find out is to test it, but as the iPad’s screen doesn’t allow for any kind of pressure variations, a pen will probably do just fine.
Nomad Brush product page [Nomad Brush]
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