Just bought a wireless graphics drawing tablet :)

I like Huion brand. Its what I bought my daughter Kierra for her art commissions. We bought the Wacom for my other daughter and it cost 3 times as much and did not have as many features. They have both had them more than a year now no problems. They dont live with me btw.

@fire7side said: I had a wacom and there was kind of a weak connection for the USB which ended breaking and basically ruined it. What I found out about the small one is you can just zoom in for more detailed work, so it works fine and it's always on my desk taking up very little space. The big thing now is the ones where you draw on a screen and actually see what you are drawing instead of looking at a computer screen, but they are pretty pricey. You have to be a pro for that kind of thing. Even in 3d they come in handy now days because of texture painting. Mine is a Huion too, but smaller and I bought it a few years back.

Thats what my wife and daughters have- the backlit draw on the screen tablets. Mine is the small black no screen tablet. I am still waiting for it to charge. As its bluetooth it runs off non removable battery. :)

Btw my main desktop works fine- but the case is closed via black and grey duct tape. Its an older but solid rig. 2013 or 2014 I think, runs any modern game just fine. Just butt ugly like its owner, me. :)

@cybereality said: The ones with the screen are nice, I've tried them, but honestly it is not needed. Especially for 3D, a lot of stuff is conceptual, so there is not a huge benefit to having the screen (it may be good for illustration). They are not too expensive now. This is one I bought for $200, but I never ended up using it cause I think it didn't work on Ubuntu. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GNK18VJ/

All the tablets we have ever owned worked perfectly in several flavors of linux.

Some people need to see the line as they draw at the pen. Im okay not seeing a line at my pen, but my wife can draw 3x faster if she can draw just like on paper. If that makes sense. She says when she cant see her pen or brush what she is painting it adds a delay that ruins her flow.

There's probably grant money in finding out if people use left brain for mouse and right brain for pen...

@cybereality said: Yeah, it makes sense for traditional artists. I think if you are more technical, then the screen may not help.

True :)

For me I cant see a screen that small. About the smallest screen I can use is about 32 in. The one im using now belongs to my brother in law and is about 60in. Unless I wear reading glasses then I get headaches. Plus my experience is CAD so I never used a pen with cad just mouse and data entry.

It will take me a bit to get my pen skills back since I havent used a tablet in a year. But it is working nice:)

@Megalomaniak said: I'm a dinosaur and use the very first generation 12" wacom cintiq. Not wireless, no fancy finger/touch input. But it gets the job done, I agually bought it on a sale once it was EOL product for 800 €. previous to that I had been using a very basic wacom graphire 4 that I got in 2005. It did just fine TBH.

Its not the tool its the artist, is what I was taught in woodworking.