Got a new Apple Pencil? Once the initial novelty wears off, you might find that it spends most of its time magnetically clipped to the side of your iPad Pro or, worse, stuck in the back of a drawer.

For the last 20 years, I’ve worked almost exclusively with digital tools for commissioned jobs. At the beginning, I would be sketching my art on paper, scanning, and then colouring with Photoshop.

The Apple Pencil is a hit. When Apple introduced it with their big 12.9-inch iPad Pro, artists gave it rave reviews thanks to how well it works. People like me love it because it handles handwritten ...