Hello guys i'm an amateur manga styled artist and recently I'm interested to make a digital art. I'm thinking of buying digital tablet for drawing that costs $150 or less. And I found these choices.
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Whichdo you think will be the best? Intuos Comic CTH-490 I heard it's really good for sketching and the design is good. But it only has 1024 pressure level and the size is small, but what I heard is good about Wacom is it's product durability, some people even say it lasts forever that's why Wacom is the most famous company. But this tablet got quite a price for nearly same specs like the products below so I'm wondering if i should buy this or below products. Huion NEW 1060 Plus Heard this product is an upgrade of H610 which is really good. It's roughly cheaper than Intuos CT-490 and has twice pressure level, but I heard from people this product got bad software and often driver compatibility. The size is also good for guy with 19' PC like me.
It include wireless tool to to make it cordless unlike Wacom, you don't need to buy it. Huion G10T Inspiroy This tablet I heard got the tilt function and has slightly better specs than 1060 Plus, but this website: states that the touch function is as good as unfunctional so I hesitate to buy this because i think I will really need the touch function to work with my project. I was wondering which tablet is the best, and it will be really good if you insert each pros and cons or personal experience. Which one from 3 of them have the tilt support? And I heard Huion touch function sucks and rigid which often doesn't respond when you zoom or rotate the workspace. And if i recall correctly all of them didn't have Eraser function in it's stylus?
How does one erase in digital art if they don't have eraser? Please help me and thanks in advance You can no longer comment on this thread as it was closed due to no activity for a month. Thanks for the help. I now know what I want to buy, Huion NEW 1060 Plus. But the problem is, there isn't offline/physical store of Huion in my city.
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If I buy Huion and all of my pen nibs are broken I have to buy it from internet which is a bother because I don't have credit card while Wacom stores are many in my city, which means if I buy Wacom CTH-490 i can get the nibs easily by going to the store. Is it worthy to buy huion 1060 but hard to get the replacement nibs? Or should I get the lower specification tablet which is CTH-490 but easier to get replacement nibs?
And anyway, how long does a pen nibs last? Thanks in advance. First, I have a question about what you said: 'If I buy Huion and all of my pen nibs are broken.'
If you are buying a new tablet, none of the parts included should be broken. This includes the pen nibs. You should easily be able to get a refund or replacement if your new tablet comes with broken parts. Pen nibs last a fairly long time. Each pen nib should last you roughly a month to a year depending on the texture of the tablet, quality of the pen nibs, and how often you use it.
Both the Wacom CTH-490 and the Huion NEW 1060 Plus have a fairly smooth type of surface so I estimate that your pen nibs will last at least 3-6 months to a year on average with frequent use. From what I know, the CTH-490 comes with 3 replacement nibs while the Huion NEW 1060 Plus comes with 5, so in most cases you won't have to worry about buying replacement nibs for at least the first year or two either way. Just think about buying replacement pen nibs when you need them. I personally don't think it's something you should be worrying about before buying your tablet. But anyways, about your problem with not having a credit card: You can buy prepaid visa cards from most local stores and use those on online sites such as Amazon.
Although, if you do not want to try out online shopping because it feels risky, then you don't have to force yourself. I understand that it feels the most secure to buy something from your local store rather than online. In the first place, how are you buying your Huion if you do not have a credit card to pay online? Is it not possible to ask the person paying for your tablet to buy you replacement pen nibs later when you've gone through all of yours? Pen nibs can last anywhere from a year to measly a week, depending on how hard you're pressing down on it.
Also, I've read through a few older comments, and I'd still highly recommend you to reconsider buying anything other than wacom, granted I haven't tried the other tablets. I do agree with everyone else though, that you need to get at least a size medium if you have a 19' screen. While the specs for tablets do look yummy, especially with the pressure level difference, do note that most (if not all) people are unable to draw 2048 lines all with varying thickness.
Although the pressure levels help with more control (slightly) of the line thickness, a lot is also based on the driver. Basically the driver and/or drawing program will help you smooth out thickness differences. Example is that imagine you have a tablet with 10 pressure levels and you're drawing with a size 1000 brush, for most drawing programs when you draw a line and lift it up, you won't see jaggedness throughout the line, like the brush size won't go from 1000 px to 900 px immediately, you'll still get a smooth transition. The only problem there would then if you want to draw a line at 950 pixels, but you could manual change the brush size for that.
Notice that most people don't use 1000 px brush size, and that the example is with a tablet with 10 pressure levels. If we use the 1024 pressure levels and a normal brush size of 100 px, then you have control of up to +-0.1 px. Also for tilt functionality, it is mostly negligble, especially if your drawing program doesn't support it. Even with photoshop, most people will use pressure thickness rather than tilting the pen.
Even worse is if your computer is towards the middle lower spec end, then there is a high chance your computer will lag out due to the computing. For the eraser, you have the eraser tool in all programs. Just press E and you erase like you're drawing. TLDR: while specs are good and all, if you don't have the drivers to drive the tablet, the tablet is basically just desk raiser. 1024 pressure levels is enough unless you're drawing on a canvas 10,000 px wide. Value stabilityspecs if you have any other questions, feel free to ask them! I'll help as much as I can!
There are other choices outside of Wacom and Huion that you could consider, but it's important for you to note that you won't be able to get the multi-touch function (panning/zooming etc with your finger gestures on the tablet) and the pen eraser on any tablet outside of Wacom. So if you think you absolutely need the multi-touch and pen eraser, your only option is Wacom. However, I never thought of those functions as something necessary to do digital art. I'll explain what I think about those after I talk about the tablets you've listed. My thoughts about the tablets you've mentioned is as follows: 1. Intuos Comic CTH-490 The Intuos Comic is a good option, but it's a small size. I personally would get something with a bigger active area (where the pen is sensed) because that helps with control over your lines without having to zoom very far in on the canvas.
You also don't need to worry about pen pressure levels because most companies just put 2048 as a way of marketing. The reason that's allowed is because (basically) no one can actually feel the difference between 1024 and 2048 and call them out on it, but honestly, 1024 is sufficient for any type of art.
Many people have also been able to make do with just 256. I'm guessing one of the reasons you're looking at this one is because it comes with the 2 year Clip Studio Paint Pro license. My personal opinion is that you should just wait for one of CSP's sales to get the full version of Clip Studio Paint Pro, and get a cheaper and bigger tablet from an alternative outside of Wacom. Also, the thing about Wacom being more durable is questionable. If you treat any of your technology properly, it should last you a very long time. Huion NEW 1060 Plus The Huion NEW 1060 Plus sounds well. It sounds alright based on the specs, but if you've read reviews and found that a fair number of people are having the same problems, then you should expect that you'll also experience the same problems as them.
I also don't see anything about it having a wireless function. The pen is wireless, but that's a given for any pen tablet in this day and age.? Huion G10T Inspiroy The Huion G10T is most likely exactly how parka describes it on his review.
I can't see Huion being able to fix such a big problem with the touch (build up new software/drivers/etc) in the 4 months since his review. If you're looking at it only because of that touch pad, then I suggest against buying that one. How I see digital art: Zooming/panning/rotating are all actions which can be done with keyboard shortcuts which you set in each drawing program. You can also set shortcut keys for pen and eraser and any other brush (that's how you erase in digital art without the pen eraser). I have never used touch-input but I get along just fine having one hand on the keyboard and the other hand on the tablet. Personally, I find it much easier and faster to click the eraser shortcut key on my keyboard instead of flipping my pen to use the eraser (experience from Wacom Intuos Pro old version).
The pen tilt is also a completely different thing from traditional and it doesn't work how it would with a traditional pen. Going into digital art thinking that it's supposed to feel exactly like traditional art except on a monitor is not a good mindset. It is a whole different method of creating art and you would do well to keep that in mind.
If you're adamant about getting both multi-touch and pen eraser on your tablet, the older Intuos Pen and Touch Small and Intuos Pen and Touch Medium may be worth considering. The tablets I myself have my eyes on (but never tried) are the Parblo Island A609 , the XP-Pen Star04 , and the XP-Pen Star05. These tablets may or may not be available in your region for the same price. You may also be interested in the new Wacom Intuos Pro Paper which has a special function which lets you ink pages on top of it, and it will save those lines for you to use on your computer later. That way you can sketch and ink on traditional, and have those lines transfer over to digital so you can do colours/effects on the computer. However, the price for this tablet is 350 USD for the medium so it is well out of your price range, but I thought it was worth mentioning since it seemed to fit what you might want.