Eyo, a long time ago I used to do some art:
But I did that exclusively with a mouse and nothing else. Sometimes actual pencils, sometimes tracing over pencil stuff.
I did this because though I had a tablet, my experience with drawing on it was absolutely awful. None of my lines looked right, I couldn't work with it for the life of me. But then, after getting into my current college program I started to work with the in-class tablets. Large things like these:
I actually managed to draw perfectly fine on it, and produced this:[Image to be added later it's on the USB in my car :(]
So I started looking at that same tablet from my college, which I know works well. BUT that doesn't mean there isn't better stuff, and this whole site is about art so there's bound to be plenty of artist with recommendations.
To clarify, not super concerned with budget. I don't think I'd buy a $600 tablet, but that's moreso that I don't think I'd get the use out of it.
To add to this, I will mention I currently run a 4k monitor (if that is of any concern to which tablet I pick) and I use Paint Tool Sai to make all my stuff (might swap to Kirta because of Sai demanding money from me but still)
I'm not super into the glass-based tablets, ones with huge screens. But maybe that's just an outside perspective thing, I feel like the hand might get in the way a lot and annoy me. BUT I don't know, no expert so pls help me out.
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