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XPPen Artist 22 Plus Drawing Display review – Easy to live with and use

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REVIEW – Are you a new or student digital artist on a budget looking for a drawing display and you’re unsure what to get? Do you also want to give yourself a headache? Go look at the XPPen website. Anyone can quickly become frustrated by the sheer number of drawing displays—sizes, prices, and features. It’s

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This Digi Pen Stylus is calibrated for the artist’s touch – and right now, it’s nearly $60 off

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DEAL NEWS – Write and draw on your tablet with all the precision of pen and paper with this sophisticated Digi Pen stylus, now just $39.99 (reg. $99).  Sure, your finger is fine for clicking buttons, dragging, and a few other blunt-force actions you need to take when using a touchscreen-enabled device. But for absolute

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XP-Pen Artist 13 Pen Display (2nd Gen) review – Small tablet big on features

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REVIEW – Let me say up front that I use an iPad Pro (2018—due for an update) for watching videos and sketching out ideas using the excellent Apple Pencil. It’s a dream tablet in many ways—except one. As good as the iPad is, it only uses its own apps, not the Mac graphic design apps

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Huion Kamvas Pro 13 (2.5K) Pen display tablet review – Pro doesn’t always mean expensive

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REVIEW – In my years as an art director, it amazes me the sheer number of graphics tablets that are available. I keep wondering, “Are there enough users to support this niche market?” I guess there are, because the tablet market continually grows and the competition can be intense. In the beginning, Wacom was the

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UGEE 11.9 Inch Drawing Tablet review – decent beginner’s drawing tablet

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REVIEW – I’ve always enjoyed sketching and doodling, but I’ve never seriously dabbled in digital art so far. When UGEE offered us the chance to try out their UGEE 11.9 Inch Drawing Tablet, I thought it would be fun to try getting better at creating things. I tried out the tablet with a variety of

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XP-Pen Artist Pro 16 Pen Display Graphics Tablet review – great for mobile artists on a budget

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REVIEW – Almost everybody knows what an iPad is. It’s become ubiquitous in our tech-centered lives. What almost everybody does not know is that there are tablets out there artists use that aren’t iPads at all. In fact, these tablets need to be hard-wired to a computer just to work. A company called XP-Pen makes

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Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 Pen Display review – It’s not called “Pro” for nothing

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REVIEW – Anyone who does art, design, or photo retouching on a computer knows the name Wacom. Wacom has made graphics tablets for years. I’ve used them for at least 20 years starting with the Intuos 2 tablet. Eventually, I upgraded to the Intuos Pro, which I still use occasionally. However, many artists and designers

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XP-Pen Innovator Display 16 drawing digitizer display review – Part 2

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REVIEW – This is the second part of my review of the XP-Pen Innovator 16 Graphic Display .  The first part of the review was technical and focused upon the tablet itself.  This part is more artistic and focuses on the reactions of three young artists who used the Innovator for the first time.  They

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XP-Pen Innovator Display 16 drawing digitizer display review – Part 1

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REVIEW – Artists who transition from physical mediums, like paper and canvas, to the digital world quickly learn how inadequate a mouse is.  It just doesn’t feel natural in the hand compared to a pencil or a paintbrush.  To overcome this issue, an artist can draw on a graphics tablet with a pen (aka a

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Huion HS610 graphics drawing tablet review

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REVIEW – Creating art on your laptop using a mouse, or on your phone/tablet using a finger is doable, but a specially designed digitizer tablet and pen can take your drawings from doodles to Dali (he’s an artist, google him). What is it? The Huion HS610 is a graphics drawing tablet that you can use

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