I have owned my iPad Pro for a little under a year now and am impressed with its capabilities. With some helpful apps like Pro Create, streamlining the monotonous task of bringing a client's concept to fruition has become less chore like. The iPad has come a long way since I purchased iPAD2 years back and quickly abandoned due to lack of practical applicabilities for a tattoo artist, In contrast, the pro is definitely an asset and has redeemed itself with me. A Necessary tool for busy artists; no losing or misplacing drawings, everything is all in one place no matter how many pages, and lightweight/portable too. 
          I was so close to purchasing a touch face system like Wacom, but mobility was essential and for the investment the necessity to be tethered to a desktop defeats being mobile and ultimately kept me from pulling the trigger on that type of digital essential. iPad pro will put a serious dent in those companies bottom line, especially since Clip Studio for iPad has hit the streets and all those capabilities of professional quality digital graphics and design for half the price, and cheaper, depending on which set up you compare it to. Almost 13" inches of screen is plenty of room to operate at a much more affordable rate.
         Tattoo Smart has some very useful brushes to help out with some of the most common details needed for tattoo deigns, i.e.= chain and rope. The Apple pencil is necessary to gain the full potential of the brushes capabilities. If you're a tattoo artist these are a must have, you can save so much time whipping out line work and and multiple variations of your design. 
         Pro Create comes with a variety of stock brush options to render any textures you might need. Even with the Tattoo specific brushes I purchased, I often use brushes from the Pro Create pallette. Easy to keep client files organized and deleting them when you're finished. I generally keep around thirty files at all times between my personal art projects and client projects with no lag in the apps operation. However, I have noticed picture quality drops severely if the project sits idle for a period of time as well as shrinking the project on the page if you close your project out, then return to it later and bring image back up to the page size.
         I tend to have my reference pic(s) open on the page as I work on the project and will shrink the reference pics down as to not interfere with my work surface. Same with any drawings I've created. With the ref. pics I just delete the fuzzy one and re-insert it from my files, you may want to save any projects that you have enough time or when line quality matters for generating a stencil worthy copy.

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​-Neckbone

Episode 1: Oh My God, He's Dying
 (This didn't happen to me, but I was there when it did, heheheh.)
            A lady comes into the shop I was working for at the time for a tattoo, (not sure what it was). She sits down with one of the artists and gets her tattoo. She liked it so much, she makes an appointment for her and her husband to get tattoos in the near future.
         Tattoo day comes and the wife and husband arrive with daughter and boyfriend in tow. Now this is hubby's first tattoo, no problem, he's got this. After all, it's a small tattoo on the bicep, how bad could it be? Wifey, (who is a registered nurse, by the way), goes first.  Bing,Bang,Done, no worries. 
            So hubby gets his stencil, settles in as comfortable as can be with legs stretched out front and slighlty reclined, looking somewhat anxious to feel the sting. As all hubby's crew is gathered, anticipating the first prick and dad's reaction, The artist begins tattooing. So far, So good, so boyfriend and daughter step out of the shop.
               I have a client in my chair and I'm buzzin away on his piece, when all of a sudden, at the top of her lungs, wifey starts screaming "Oh my God, He's dying!" which commands the immediate attention of everyone in the shop. Luckily, the artist managed to get the chair reclined back to ensure the client doesn't slide out, before his wife throws a cup of water in his face, then proceeds to slap the shit out of him while screaming all kinds of shit. "Call 911, he's dying". The artist is unsuccessful at calming her down so he can handle the situation as we are equipped and experience this reaction from time to time. My client turns to me with great concern and asks, "Should I go over there? I'm certified CPR", I say no as I'm trying not to laugh, at least noticeably, This poor lady thinks her husband is dying and is desperately trying to revive him, Old West style. At this point she's showing no sign of letting up on her husband's jaw and I'm starting to think I need to grip her up before she breaks her hubands jaw. The artist conceded at this point, slumped back in his chair and is watching this RN's emergency skillset, in amazement, by the look on the artist face he must have said fuck it, I'll let her finish.
         With hubby still out, she proceeds to place her hands around his throat and shake violently, I guess she learned that during clinicals. As she's still freakin out and yelling while choking hubby, the daughter and boyfriend come back into the middle of this shit show  and immediately burst into hysterical crying, (you know, the type where you can't catch your breath). Rushing to her dad's aid, pushing the artist aside. The boyfriend about faced and headed to the door, like he didn't want no part of it. This poor fuck client has had the shit slapped out of, choked and shaken, now 2 frantic family members sucking the air out his face as they still think he's dying. Somehow, the artist managed to get the ammonia under his nose during all this craziness and actually revive him and quell the tears. After a couples minutes the husband was good to go, no more problems.
 I guess this is why, as a general rule of thumb, medical professional should not tend to an emergency of family when others are there to act with out bias.


 Wish we had that on tape. hehehe
-Neckbone