I'm considering upgrading my $30 XP-Pen tablet to a $373 Wacom Intuos Pro. I wonder if the expensive tablet 10x the price provides a better experience.
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>>1460071How does dpi in pen affect the drawing experience?
Of course Wacom is better. Why don't you buy one used if you want to save money? Or just don't buy one, if what you have is serving you well enough. If it's not broke, don't fix it.
>>1460544Could you clarify in what way Wacom does better compared to other drawing tablets?
>>1460067It's a meme. Pretty ridiculous pricing as well when you can get a bigger tablet with a screen for cheaper.
>>1460067I don't remember the details anymore, but when I was researching which drawing tablets would be best for gaming, my conclusion was that Wacom really is superior. I got a big used one for $50 off Craigslist.
>>1460067Yeah wacoms are definitely worth the moneyI have an intuos pro M and it's perfect for my needsI only think that cintiqs are overrated because the screen quality isn't that great and you can't apply that much pressure because you might scratch the screen>>1460071this but also pressure sensitivity and better driverswacoms are just the best at detecting detailed movements>>1460544why would you buy a scratched tablet?
>>1461309Thanks for the reply. How is your overall experience with intuos pro? Does it not have any wobbling issues compared to cheaper pen tablets?Also I've been wondering what dpi in pen does.
>>1461027cheap screen display has visible parallax though
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>>1460067Hhoott
>>1460067I have a wacom intuos pro. It has useful features, but it takes a lot of getting used to.A lot of artists prefer having a screen to look at. I got mine on ebay, the seller used it once and hated it. It was $150
>>1460067sauce?
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>>1464430I meant for the art
>>1464451https://ascii2d.net/search/color/a948082611f03a6ed502e99469ee4785
>>1460067>Is Wacom really superior to other drawing tablet or is it just a meme?It is BOTH better AND significantly over-priced because Wacom knows that the high-end professional has no other choice. The competitors with their video drawing tablets are less accurate on color matching.**Video Drawing Tablet -- the photographic or video image appears on the tablet and you draw on it instead of looking at a separate monitor. This is much more natural as if you were actually drawing on paper or canvas. The key thing is that colors are Pantone matched and accurate because if you pick all the colors wrongly because your tablet display colors are inaccurate, then your final illustration as printed in a book or shown on a video/theatre screen will be off color.
>>1464767Whatever visual graphics drawing tablet you buy, it must come with a GLASS screen. Reviewers have shown that non-glass screens all eventually scratch up especially in areas where you naturally prefer to touch the surface the most with the pen nib.
>>1460067>$373 Wacom Intuos Pro.At that price point, maybe you should consider a competing graphics tablet brand with positive reviews. There are youtube channels dedicated to graphics tablets reviews.
>>1464055>A lot of artists prefer having a screen to look at.Same here. Once you get used to having a display with batteryless pen, it's pretty irritating to use anything else.
>>1460067>>1464767Video color accuracy is important on those graphics tablets.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or4SZFcdfGM
Wacom Cintiq is what I recommend, but I suspect OP and other 4chan users don't like $1500 and higher cost drawing tablets. But there are plenty of other artist-oriented drawing tablets out there. I prefer visual display drawing tablets as opposed to the old school digitizer tablets that require you to look at your monitor screen. I find that annoying to look up and down between the tablet controls and the monitor screen. I feels unnatural to me.>>1464780>GLASS screen.The thickness of screens can cause parallax to users that are annoyed with the height of the pen nib above the actual illustration. Screens that reduced the thickness of the transparent surface to the image itself will have fully laminated screens. Look through the literature to see if the screen is fully laminated or not.
>>1465399Cintiq is so expensive>>1465371This is nice recommendation
>>1465399thanks chatgpt
>>1465822>Cintiq is so expensiveNot if you have a job. The only problem is having a GF that expects you to spend your spare money on her (thus improving her lifestyle) or she gets pouty once she has an idea of how much you make and how much of that isn't being spent on her.
There are highly portable meta products out there such as ones that digitize drawings on paper. It can be useful on a job site if you need to have a "carbon copy" of what was drawn on the proverbial napkin or back of an envelope.Digitizer that saves to your smartphone:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dXYbcTS66jI
>>1460067>Is Wacom really superior to other drawing tabletGenerally, yes. But remember that "superior" means little if you don't benefit from that margin of superiority. At that point, you overpaid.I think whatever drawing tablet is "good enough" for you to use throughout the next year or two is what you should use. There's lots of youtube reviews, but you should find channels or websites that cover a variety of tablets. Beware of websites that concentrate on comparisons between just only one or two brands. Chances are it is semi-fake site meant to promote one brand, and other brand competitors are mentioned only to provide a little bit of credibility.Reasonable comparison between tablets:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nENQ-TLBYvI
There's a new Wacom product called Wacom Movink. What are your thoughts about it?
>>1464767THAT PICTURE: XP-pen 22e PRO At $399 for a 22 inch, the XP-Pen 22E Pro is what I regarded as the best large AND affordable video graphics tablets of 2020. This was before the money printing inflation of 2021+ that inflated equivalent tablets 200% or more despite tech still improving and driving the price downwards. The xp-pen 22 series has multiple version releases and the "e" was first released in 2018. The "e" I would not buy now even at $399 because it isn't a laminated/bonded glass screen. But at $399, everyone else may bite because it was nicer than the Huion equivalent. But the parallax of the thick glass screen of "e" annoyed me. I have no experience with xp-pen newer than "e".>>1460067>I wonder if the expensive tablet 10x the price provides a better experience.I once tried using a basic graphics tablet of 5x7 size to see if I could translate my meager (but at least existent) drawing skill to cleaning and redrawing doujin images for scanslation. It was too alien to me to move a pen on a tablet while looking away at the monitor screen. I think if I had a video tablet it would have been far more natural to do touch ups and redraws. The biggest thing for selecting a tablet is first to determine how serious you are about drawing. If it is going to be an activity you are not going to quit due to lack of perseverance, then you should find someone with a video tablet or go to a store that has a video tablet and try it out. My university has video graphics tablets now for the sophomore and up art students. But I've graduated long ago, so I'm no longer a student with art student friends able to access tools to use off hours. But if you're a student, you might investigate if you can use any visual graphics tablets at school. Or at least be allowed to "trial test" one to see if you like them or not.
