With a small tablet most of your movements are with your wrist and fingers, only needing a small elbow rotation to go from one side of the screen to the other. With the medium tablet on a single monitor you wind up making a lot of long moves of the pen across the surface to go from one area of the monitor screen to another. You only make long movements when going from one area to another, and even then those movements are usually smaller than an artists stroke with a pen. The major use of a tablet for photography is to allow you finer control over small movements of the pen during retouching or making selections than you can get with a mouse. For an artist drawing on a medium or large tablet is very similar to drawing on a paper drawing pad. Drawing involves lots of long strokes so artists are used to shoulder and elbow rotations and have the practice to make those movements skillfully.

I agree with buying Wacom but not with the recommendation for a medium sized tablet.įor photographers with a single monitor a small size tablet is better, with a dual monitor setup then the medium is a better fit.įor an artist then a medium or large size is usually better, even with a single monitor. Small is better for a child, and large probably targets professional illustrators with huge desk space. Its specs is slightly less than the Pro, but usually more than adequate. If you want the touch feature for spinning/zooming, you can also buy refurbished of the new Art model, about $140. They seem to last forever, just need to replace the nibs as they wear out (well, except for the flimsy mini-USB ports that I had to do a hard-wire fix: ). I'd highly recommend Wacom instead, I bought 4 of them used from Craiglist for $90-150 (PTK-640, PTK-660).

Huion affinity designer