Storyboarding on an iPad: The Speed vs. Detail Dilemma

I recently tried storyboarding a particularly complex action sequence directly on my iPad Pro, using Procreate, rather than my usual method of quick pencil sketches and then digitizing. My goal was to create more polished, camera-accurate boards faster for an animatic. The immediate win was speed: being able to quickly duplicate frames, erase, and draw with varied brushes (shoutout to the '6B Pencil' brush for its natural feel) meant I could block out sequences much quicker than scanning multiple physical pages. The layers functionality was also a godsend for revising character positions or background elements without redrawing an entire frame.

What didn't work as well was maintaining consistency in character scale and detail across many frames without importing character models as reference, which added a step I was trying to avoid. While I could zoom in for detail, doing so often led to losing the overall flow of the sequence when zoomed back out. It was a trade-off: I gained speed in broad strokes but sacrificed a bit of the 'hand-drawn' spontaneous energy and struggled to keep minute character details perfectly aligned without more rigorous template usage. Do others find that digital storyboarding flattens some of the raw energy of initial sketches, or am I just not leveraging the right digital tools fully?