Kyle FewellInterview
Freelance illustrator
Adapted from Kyle Fewell's interview on Uses This, published 11 December 2018. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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For my desktop PC I use an Intel Hades Canyon NUC (NUC8I7HVK).
I use a small 2013 Intuos Draw and Touch for drawing, which works okay.
Eventually will get a 13" Cintiq or something but for now it's just that little tablet.
For a monitor, I use a 24" Acer IPS screen.
I also use a Surface Pro 4 for drawing and creating stuff.
The Surface Pen has a tip with some resistance, so it's not super smooth on the glossy screen and is pretty nice to draw on.
Along with those computers, I have a 10.5" iPad Pro that I use mostly for sketching and maybe line work.
My desk is the Stash Desk from Blu Dot.
Productivity
Design
It's not a perfect computer, though - the battery life on the i7/16gb/256gb version kinda sucks when putting it on a workload (about 5-7 hours on light use and ~3ish with a decent sized Photoshop file).
Depending on the job I'll sometimes use Illustrator.
On my iPad I mostly just use Procreate, and that performs really well for what it is.
Storage
For the cloud I use Google Drive.
Other
On mine I put 16gb RAM and a 250gb SSD with Windows 10.
Only game I really play on it is Final Fantasy XI, a 16 year old MMO that needs very little graphical power to run great.