#Art tablets

[godbirdart]

it appears 2024 will continue the trend of art companies proudly representing themselves with the use of art theft generators [aka, AI generators]

original tweet is now deleted, but wacom used a generated image of a dragon for their 2024 lunar new year promo on twitter.

if you're shopping for art tablets, huion, artisul, and XPPen tablets do just as good a job as their wacom equivalents for less, sometimes even half the price.

when you buy a wacom you're paying almost exclusively for the Brand Name, not any actual quality.

[drivebypainter]

LMAO, I just spent 45 minutes crying over my XP-Pen Artist 15.6 tablet, thinking it died. (It's about 5-6 years old at this point.) I messed with its cables to figure out which new cable to buy. (Its connection has been on the fritz—nothing too terrible, but enough for me to want a new cable.)

But when I plugged everything back in... it stopped working. The screen would come on for a few seconds, say "No signal" and then cut off afterward. OH NO!

So, I went through the process as any good computer user must do. I restarted my computer, deleted the old Pen-Tablet drives, and reinstalled them, I unplugged everything at every connection and replugged them in... still no cigar. SMH!

Finally, I do it. I open Reddit dot com (GASP!). Scouring nasty comments and fellow angry tablet users, I find who I am searching for: someone with the same exact problem from four years ago (HALLELUJAH!). Opening the comments, there it is, an angel disguised as a disgruntled PC user with the vocabulary of a saint saying; "Plug the HDMI into the graphics card, not the motherboard. Dumbass."

Following the instructions of someone clearly smarter than past-me from an hour ago, I do as I am told... AND BAM! My tablet is now working without problems.

Thank you exasperated 30-something-year-old, you saved me <3

[leoremin]

YES NEW ART TABLET ORDERED IT'LL BE HERE MONDAY WOOOOOOO

[ettle]

Bargaining.

[lokh]

DO YOU SEE MY VISION... DO YOU SEE WHAT THEY COULD BECOME

[sonykatzen]

[insert clever caption that makes you think hard]

[nekucreates]

Don’t know whether to buy a Gaomon S620 or XP-Pen G640 🤔 (art tablets). Day 2 without an art tablet and the itch to draw digitally again is real. I’m glad that there’s cheaper alternatives to Wacom because yeah I don’t wanna support that company anymore (plus it’s their tablets that break ridiculously easy on me).

[seagiri]

Klavier if she was epic

[starspilli]

morning kori. she’s lovingly watching dick burn the shit out of her pancakes

[laststrix]

espeon ✨👽

[evenlyevi]

Nostalgia

[godbirdart]

Hello! I hope you are having a nice start to your week :) I seem to remember you recommending a certain tablet once and tried looking for it but couldn’t find it. Is there still one you recommend for art? I’ve got an ipad now but I was thinking of trying something different when it reaches the end of its days (but still hopefully a draw-on one). I think I’ve heard some tablets let you actually download programs and not just apps. I would love to just 1-time buy clip studio or something instead of the app subscription Dx

No worries if you don’t have a recommendation, I may have just misremembered. Either way, I hope you have a lovely evening and thanks for sharing your art! ^_^

Oh I can talk tablets for Hours don't even worry

I have a tablet that can download programs and that is this one right here!

The Huion Kamvas Studio 22

It's been retired from Huion's store for a couple years now, succeeded by Huion's new Kamvas Studio 24; the new, sleeker edition of my 22.

If you're looking for a tablet that can download actual software and not just act as a second display for your computer, you'll be looking specifically for a "Pen Computer". Huion currently offers two - the Kamvas Studio 24 and the travel-sized Kamvas Studio 16. Both come with Windows 11 preinstalled.

Huion also released the Kamvas Slate 10, and while it is categorized as a pen computer, it's designed to compete with tablets like the iPad or PicassoTab and operates on Android 12.

While the idea of an independent computer you can draw on the screen of isn't at all novel, they're still arguably "new" for the companies whose target demographic is artists. At the time of this post, Huion appears to be Wacom's main and only competitor in that field. Artisul, Gaomon and XPpen do not manufacture them. Options for standalone drawing tablets that can download software [not just apps like a phone] are largely limited to:

Huion Kamvas Studio 16

Huion Kamvas Studio 22

Huion Kamvas Studio 24

Wacom MobileStudio Pro 13

Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16

I know I hype up Huion a lot and that's primarily because I have actual firsthand experience with their products, but I cannot stress enough that the Huion can do the job just as well as the Wacom. If you're hellbent on the Wacom, get it when it's on BIG sale, or cheaper secondhand / refurbished. Wacom's MobileStudio line can start at around ~$2600 USD and up, whereas the Huion Kamvas Studio, while still costly, can start from ~$1700 USD. I've seen Kamvas Studio 22s floating around for around $1000 USD which is already $500 off what I originally paid for mine.

Pen computers are one hell of an investment but they're extremely convenient to have. I'm currently saving up for a Kamvas Studio 16 as my travel laptop barely has the power to support Clip Studio and I want to be able to take my work on the go without fumbling around with cords.

To anyone else reading: if I somehow missed the release of a pen computer from another art tablet brand, feel free to drop it in the replies! I'm usually on top of these but I've been so swamped with work the past two months I've barely enough time to check my social media most days lmao

[yan-may-fire]

concept for a background character

[sleepzsharkz]

I will rewrite your fate as writing on the wall.

Based on Writing on the Wall Ver. Alhaitham by Lia. (Original by Will Stetson)

[beautysnake]

What he doesn't know wont hurt him.........

[opikiquu]