Blew $60 on a digital art tablet that looked good on instagram but felt terrible to draw on

I fell for one of those cheap XP-Pen knockoffs from a random brand called Artisul or something last spring. It looked fine in the unboxing videos but the pen had this weird jitter when you drew diagonal lines. I spent like 3 hours trying to calibrate it and updated drivers twice but it never got smooth. The screen had this grainy texture that ate up my nibs in like a week. Honestly my old wacom intuos from 2015 works way better even though it's basic. Anyone else get burned by those budget tablets that influencers push?

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blair_chen812d ago

Wait, are you saying those influencer tablets actually suck? Because I used to be all about defending budget gear honestly. I thought people just didn't know how to use them right or they were being picky. But then I tried the same kind of thing you're describing - a weird brand called Huion's budget line. The pen lag was brutal and the screen had this terrible parallax that made my lines always be a little off. It completely changed my mind about cheap tablets. Now I tell everyone to just save up for a used Wacom or a known good model instead.

charles8362d ago

Bought a $30 XP Pen off Amazon and the driver crashed every 20 minutes, @blair_chen81.

eva_moore1d ago

Gotta wonder if some of these companies are just rebranding the same cheap components from the same factory. Bought a random brand called Gaomon once and it literally had the same driver interface as a different brand I tried the month before, just with a different logo slapped on it.