Sounds like you have cool parents, nice :)
Yeah they really are, tbh I didn’t expect them to get me something so expensive and I feel a little bad about it, but I’ll even the score on fathers and mother’s day
Can’t wait until my daughter is old enough to feel this way about things I do for her :)
Don’t feel bad about it. Reward them by using it a lot, practicing, learning and improving - and sharing with them some of the work you’ve made with it.
(Obviously still get them nice stuff for mother’s/father’s day too)
100%, they’ll feel like rockstars if they know that you use it often and produce amazing stuff with it.
(And pro tip: The bar for “often” and “amazing” are way lower for parents than for the rest of the world, so don’t be too self-conscious)
I felt/feel the same way about Christmas
happy birthday OP :)
PS: I think you now need to reply with drawings to every single comment.
What device is that?
Xp pen artist 12 pro it’s nice cause it’s got a bunch of buttons and a scroll wheel but it’s not super clunky like my old kamvas 13, I really wanna model and 3d print a wall holder for it though so I can store it out of the way but in reach
Thanks for the reply. Looking at getting my kid something that she can use on different devices. Though she seems to be deadset on wanting an ipad. (ugh)
I mean personally I think this one would be involved for a kid, there’s just so much wiring, iPads honestly aren’t the worst for drawing, they have access to procreate, but you’re locked into their ecosystem. My other drawing tablet is a Samsung Galaxy tab S7, I looked for a long time to find a dedicated android tablet that had pressure sensitivity and a built in pen, and at the time of my research (about two years ago) that was the absolute best option, and it works fantastically
Oh, she was raised on Linux. She’ll do fine with that and have already shown it to her and she’s excited.
That’s awesome! I should clarify though cause I’m said it weirdly. not that this one is complicated, I just mean that the galaxy tab is way more portable since it’s actually a mobile device rather than a pheriphal. Either way if I was still young and I got something like this for drawing I would have been STOKED. I hope she enjoys whatever you go for!
What went wrong, that she wants an iPad then?
I have one from school and I had to set up a samba server to transfer files (bigger than like 20mb, the small ones I could have transferred with the same software we use to download worksheets that the teachers upload, but that’s browser only too) before we got a cloud from the school. I HATE the iPad, I can’t even automatically copy the files from my note taking app to the cloud, I have to do it manually.
What went wrong, that she wants an iPad then?
Her grandfather has one, but he has the high dollar version and thinks she’s going to somehow talk one of the family into getting her one. The best she got out of anyone was a chromebook.
I guess they seem pretty nice if you don’t care about customizability or compatibility with other devices.
iPad with Procreate is hard to beat. Especially for smaller hands.
I second this because I am thinking of buying one.
XP-Pen Artist 12 Pro. Not OP but I have the exact same one and it’s pretty decent for the price.
The good:
- 1080p 60Hz display with better-than-average-to-my-eyes color rendering (nothing to compare it to except my other monitors)
- Battery free pen (powered by the tablet itself)
- 8192 levels pressure sensitivity,
- Touch position sensing has a resolution of 4K (meaning it can detect that you touched an area 4x smaller than a display pixel)
- It can also detect what angle you are holding the pen at on two axes, although this detection does not work perfectly (it’s perfectly fine for simulating the edge of a pencil, but around the very edges of its detection it gets a bit jumpy, and if you tilt one way then the other without letting up first it forgets where straight up and down is until you’ve gone way past it). I’m willing to give it a pass for this since it’s not easy hardware to implement and most virtual brushes don’t use that data anyway.
- The 8 buttons are rebindable in software to send any keyboard shortcut you want
- Works plug and play on Linux (no driver installation, no setup, just plug it in, launch Krita and it works)
- Also usable as a non video tablet if you connect the USB cable but not the HDMI (if for some reason your computer doesn’t have a spare HDMI port)
- The pen comes with 8 replacement tips if you wear it down and you can buy a replacement pen if you lose it
The bad:
- Obviously this is not an Android tablet or anything like that. It is an external monitor with touch support. It cannot be used standalone; it requires connection to a PC to do anything at all (that said it works quite well plugged into my laptop with the clamshell closed)
- It is not touchscreen. It cannot detect touches from your finger at all; it only detects the pen
- This means no pinch to zoom/rotate – that big red dial on the left (which detects about 25 clicks per revolution and just emulates a keyboard pressing Ctrl+Plus/Minus each click) is your only way to zoom in and out unless your art software provides another one
- Connects to the PC through a proprietary HDMI+USB-A to USB-C cable that doesn’t really work with anything else, and if you connect it directly to your PC via a C-to-C cable, it will work in touch-only mode (screen is off) even if the USB-C port on your PC supports video out (most laptops do). (you can buy replacement cables from XP-Pen though)
- Another commenter mentioned the cable being a hassle and I haven’t found that to be true. USB-A and HDMI connect at one end and there’s about a meter between that and the single USB-C at the other.
All in all not bad for a $250 graphics tablet.
Thanks. I especially like the Linux support.
Ayy congrats, and happy birthday! I hope you have a lot of fun using it! :)
