Discussion Best digital tablet for graphic design?

[weiruo]

Hey all!

I have graduated my degree in media arts and am looking for recommendations , I am leaning towards the XP-PEN graphics tablets !!

Doesn't have to be XP-PEN , other brands are welcome! Price range around $300 AUD give or take. I mainly use illustrator but am wanting to play around with Photoshop retouching and colouring!

Thanks guys !!

 

[Fizzler]

Subbed as I’m very interested. I’ve never looked at prices but a brand I see mentioned often is Wacom.

 

[caloschwaby]

Welcome to BF!

 

[akkaps]

I have a few friend that use a Microsoft Surface Pro to draw and illustrate. they find it works really well with a Stylist/pen.

 

[Barrybran]

I have a few friend that use a Microsoft Surface Pro to draw and illustrate. they find it works really well with a Stylist/pen.

He said $300 not $3,000!

 

[akkaps]

He said $300 not $3,000!

Oh, yeah, woops.

 

[caloschwaby]

Microsoft Surface Go goes for about $600, $700 including the Surface Pen (greatest digital pen I have handled and used).
Used it for all my biological drawings in uni for great results, often used it to sketch up concepts for my FIRA/NAFL teams.

Not sure if its exactly what you're looking for, but using it as a graphic tablet with an integrated PC, there's not much you could fault it for.

 

[Dylan8]

The entry level Wacom is a great jumping off point for learning to use a tablet. Don't know how suitable it is for professional use but at around a hundred bucks it's worth a punt.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I can only talk about what i've used. I bought a Wacom Intuos Medium about 8 months ago and it's been absolutely brilliant, and it was in that $300 price range.

It's a pad as opposed to a tablet, if that makes sense, so there is no display, but I found it pretty intuitive pretty quickly to draw on the pad while watching the screen. It's certainly allowed me to do things I couldn't have done before, and saves me a lot of time, especially on sketching out ideas.

 

[Nickimus Rex]

A few art channels i follow use Huion tablets due to sponsorship and they seem to have quite good reviews without being too expensive.

 

[just_kick_it]

I'm in the Wacom camp as well. I bought the $170 one a couple of months ago. It is a pad with out a screen and it seems pretty good so far but I haven't had much time to use it

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