Best Drawing Tablet?
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For the worst of budgets, get a Bamboo. It's like, $20.
Really low budget: Huion (I have the H58L)
Medium Budget: Intuos Draw or Intuos Pro (Pro prefered)
Rich: Wacom Cintiq
Medium Budget: Intuos Draw or Intuos Pro (Pro prefered)
Rich: Wacom Cintiq
I've used pushbullet, it's handy, but nevertheless still less convenient.
If you were using a cintiq or using an intuos on your PC, you wouldn't have to install a third party software or *gasp* email yourself (THE HORROR!).
Why don't you comment on everything else I wrote on my comment?
Let's face it, the cintiq is simply the best choice if you're looking for a drawing tablet (if you have the budget of course).
I'm not saying the iPad pro is necessarily a bad drawing tablet, but the (smallest) cintiq is better for a similar price
(If you don't have enough money for a cintiq, look into the Surface Pro 3)
1) No longer makes the tablet as portable, you need to lug around a laptop that's capable of running photoshop smoothly
2) Cintiq has side buttons, increases productivity
3) Cintiq has usb ports
- You can use your own keyboard instead of having to buy an extra expensive keyboard for your iPad Pro
- You can use a mouse
4) Cintiqs surface has a coating with a texture to it which mimics the feeling of drawing on paper (as opposed to the iPad pros slippery glass surface)
5) Pressure sensitivity. What possible reason might Apple have for not releasing it?
6) Astropad costs an extra $20
7) After watching through a few reviews of astro pad, a common complaint is that occasionally there is lag which causes inaccuracy to drawing
8) Charging the apple pencil is horrible. You simply plug it into the charging spot on the iPad which leaves it sticking out. A small hit could snap the pencil
I'm going to go ahead and say to not go with the iPad Pro. Well...not entirely. The iPad Pro serves as a great companion device to use as a secondary tablet but if you'll be investing in something as your main tablet, that's not the best way to go. If you're going to make the dive into the (slightly) deep end of the pool and drop $1000 on a tablet. The touch version of the Wacom Cintiq 13HD is your best bet.
1. Shortcut keys are extremely convenient and can speed up your workflow a lot.
2. Texturized matte display. The texture of the Cintiq's displays is leagues ahead of everything else on the market (even Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 and 4 which I are both better options than an iPad imo). No glass or slipping and it's far less prone to smudges.
3. Pen Buttons. To my knowledge the Apple Pencil lacks any buttons on the pen and trust me, those can be life changes. I have mine mapped to right click and my eraser. These, as well as the shortcut keys on the tablet itself, are completely customizable.
4. When you're not drawing, the Cintiq makes one hell of a monitor and adds touch capability to your PC setup (if you go with the touch version).
I don't know about SAI or Manga Studio, but Photoshop CC 2015 is optimized pretty well for touch and works perfectly (besides a few touch gestures that I don't personally ever use).
If you need something more mobile, I highly recommend the Surface Pro 4. I started my art "business" on a Surface Pro 3 and it's worked extremely well besides a few issues. After getting my Cintiq I started using my Surface Pro 3 just for on the go or occasionally lounging around on the couch. Pretty much all of the issues with the 3 were fixed the Surface Pro 4 which just so happens to have a full desktop OS and not IOS. If you want to take art seriously, you should really be focused on getting the highest quality and most features you can afford, not what'd the most simple and easy to pick up. You can spend all the time you want learning something that isn't familiar to you, not everyone can just pick up a Surface or Cintiq and get up and running. You learn. But when you started getting more serious with art, the last thing you want is for your tools to hold you back. It's much better for the potential of your tools to be held back by you, than for your potention to be held back by your tool.
1. Shortcut keys are extremely convenient and can speed up your workflow a lot.
2. Texturized matte display. The texture of the Cintiq's displays is leagues ahead of everything else on the market (even Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 and 4 which I are both better options than an iPad imo). No glass or slipping and it's far less prone to smudges.
3. Pen Buttons. To my knowledge the Apple Pencil lacks any buttons on the pen and trust me, those can be life changes. I have mine mapped to right click and my eraser. These, as well as the shortcut keys on the tablet itself, are completely customizable.
4. When you're not drawing, the Cintiq makes one hell of a monitor and adds touch capability to your PC setup (if you go with the touch version).
I don't know about SAI or Manga Studio, but Photoshop CC 2015 is optimized pretty well for touch and works perfectly (besides a few touch gestures that I don't personally ever use).
If you need something more mobile, I highly recommend the Surface Pro 4. I started my art "business" on a Surface Pro 3 and it's worked extremely well besides a few issues. After getting my Cintiq I started using my Surface Pro 3 just for on the go or occasionally lounging around on the couch. Pretty much all of the issues with the 3 were fixed the Surface Pro 4 which just so happens to have a full desktop OS and not IOS. If you want to take art seriously, you should really be focused on getting the highest quality and most features you can afford, not what'd the most simple and easy to pick up. You can spend all the time you want learning something that isn't familiar to you, not everyone can just pick up a Surface or Cintiq and get up and running. You learn. But when you started getting more serious with art, the last thing you want is for your tools to hold you back. It's much better for the potential of your tools to be held back by you, than for your potention to be held back by your tool.
You misread what I meant, if you actually read my sub points, I pointed out the usb ports because you need them to connect your keyboard and mice.
Not what I meant, again. I meant that they didn't release the exact levels
It's not that much money, but it's unnecessary if you buy the cintiq.
Extremely untrue, unless you've got terrible hand eye coordination
I'm going to guess you haven't used the most recent version of Photoshop. My hand can cover my entire cintiq screen and i can still hit buttons just fine.
There are no alternatives that come close to Photoshop as far as features, especially not on Mac. As far as drawing, Photoshop, SAI, and Manga Studio are the best out there. Everything else just attempts to copy these and gets it wrong in some way.[DOUBLEPOST=1456551471][/DOUBLEPOST]
Agreed.
You're kidding right?
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Notice how Shiny specifically mentioned
Manga Studio is what I use exclusively for my drawing, and is priced at $48 for the standard version. SAI is priced similarly at $45-50. These are very viable and very affordable alternatives for Photoshop and Illustrator, and allow for a massive amount of user ability and provide a vast range of tools for the artists to utilise.
Both of those options are cheaper than both affinity and sketchapp, and only $20 more than pixelmator or acorn (both of which look severely limited from a designing standpoint).
I will pose a simple question to you. If the iPad pro is the be-all and end-all of graphics tablets, then why is it that all major digital artists and digital art studios use Cintiq based systems? Would it not be logical if the iPad pro was superior, for them all to switch to it and praise it for it's quality?
True, it wouldn't happen overnight if apple were a small company. However the iPad pro has gotten a ton of attention. If it is actually better than wacom products, artists would have already been aware of that and have switched over already.
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