Drawing tablet with monitor

Dkgoose

I know this has been discussed a lot so apologies, but I’m looking into getting a drawing tablet with a monitor to see what I’m doing in the screen, I bought a nice Huion one but there was no display.  I’ve been looking  at a few different ones but most seem to require being connected to a computer to use.  I’ve been looking into Microsoft Surface Pro 2 as well as it doesn’t need to be connected and is portable but unsure which would be the better option.  I seen some nice huion and xp drawing tablets but like I said they have to be hooked up to work.  I mostly want one to do like postwork with brushes on my pictures and to play around with, my husband had a flexx tablet that has windows so maybe I could hook up one of the tablets to that and open the program and use the drawing tablet with that, does it just mirror the screen from the pc on the tablet? Or do you still have to look at the desktop monitor to see what’s going on? Thanks in advance for any replies.

AllenArt

I have my eye on a 12" XP Pen display tablet. Not too big and right price point ;).

Laurie

Cris Palomino

I picked up a Huion pen display. Very nice and reasonably priced.

AllenArt

Are these tablets good for sculpting? That's my main reason for getting one...sculpting and painting in 3D Coat.

Laurie

Ghosty12

Wacom make good tablets and have released their Wacom Mobile Studio https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-computers/wacom-mobilestudio-pro-16 which as the name suggests is completely mobile.. The other is the corded Cintiq series with the top of the range https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-displays/wacom-cintiq-pro-32 which would cost a pretty penny..

In fact both would be rather expensive as to be expected with Wacom products.. The Mobile Studio costs between $2100 to $3000, while the 32 inch Cintiq would set you back about $3600.. So you would want to have plenty of use for these tablets..

Cris Palomino

The difference between most pen displays and Cintiqs is the parallax problem. That's where there is a visible difference between where the pen is on the surface of the monitor and where it registers on the art you're working on. It's also a big monetary difference so you have to decide what's most important to you. There are also advantages to the Cintiqs. The Huion I have has programmable buttons but they are not programmable per program where you can do that with the Cintiq. In addition, there can be a hue difference, the Cintiq is more accurate; the ability to tilt you get with the art pen on the Wacom is not available on most pen displays. I both sculpt and paint on my Huion.

My Huion was under $500 for a 15.6 screen. Cintiqs are considerably more expensive.

You could also look at a Surface machine.

Dkgoose

The surface pro 2 looks interesting and uses Wacom technology but I seen some xp pen and huion ones that look nice sadly I only have 2 USB ports on the top of my pc and no hdmi so that kinda rules those out I mostly want to use it for post work on my renders

Cichy3D

AllenArt said:

Are these tablets good for sculpting? That's my main reason for getting one...sculpting and painting in 3D Coat.

Laurie

yes as far as zbrush, I can't imagine living without one.

Here's the one I use https://us-store.wacom.com/Product/wacom-intuos-pro?sku=PTH660#/undefined1

I like the tablet + monitor combo most because I like big display