I haven’t used Sketchbook Designer but the main problem was how the drawings were recorded – mainly the lines being in different positions – so really whatever software I used the drawing would have been distorted.

On some of the tests I didn’t create any new layers so wouldn’t have moved the sensor but I see this as a problem too – I found the best position for the sensor was top left – so you had the least chance of blocking the sensor; the downside of this though is that the sensor seemed pretty loose in this position so when i created a new layer – I did move it (in other tests).

I did try hard to avoid blocking the sensor or holding the pen too close to the nib but maybe I did without realising. Also – I got better results when drawing big in the centre of the page. Either way – I found it too temperamental and it messes up far too easily to the point where the drawing experience becomes restrictive and even detrimental to technique (such as holding the pen in an unnatural way).

I basically found it far too unreliable and very hard to get a good result from it whereas with a scanner – you’re guaranteed good results every time.

But maybe it just wasn’t for me, if you guys are happy with it – then who am I to question!

Rich