I myself work with the XP-Pen 24 Pro pen display. As I understand it, some users prefer a pen tablet […] why does this work better? What advantage do you have by working on a pen tablet, if there is any?
Hi @KritPopCha,
I +1 the feedback here. You can find many arguments over the ergonomic, the room it takes, the budget for the device, the hand hiding part of the canvas, the comfort of drawing, the resolution and distance to the monitors, etc… And this arguments will have variation depending models and setup. In my opinion, all this devices and method are still far to be perfect and the technology for them hasn’t really improved much over the last 10 years… So, it is easy to get as many point of view about them as there is users.
On my side, I’m known to prefer non-display tablet as already mentioned on this topic, and I logged my tablet history over the last 20 years. I had many devices and tried display pen many time too and rarely could adapt to them.
But, since a couple of week, I’m also trying to get out of the comfort zone again and I’m trying to re-adapt to a XP-Pen 24 Pro pen display and I posted photos on the blog on monday about it. I’m switching mainly because of an aspect I never seen or read, but something that grew strongly in me:
It’s an internal feeling: I disliked a lot how was looking my workspace. It was looking like the workspace of a computer centric user more than a the desk of an artist. It wasn’t matching with what I had in mind when I started my carreer (when I thought I would spend my life on a drawing board, before Internet and digital-everywhere) and this fact made me sad about how evolved my work.
Getting back to a traditional drawing board wasn’t really an option, so I found the compromise of trying to transform my workspace around the 24 Pro, always ready on my desk. It matches better what I had in mind about my work; and this vision helps me to spend another 10h drawing/painting day.
Right now, I’m still slower than with my non-pen-display tablet… So it’s clearly not a productivity advantage, but I’m also out of my comfort zone. I’ll eventually catch up.
The workflow changes a lot: With the eyes so near of the surface of monitor; displaying a picture on all the width become useless for speedpainting; my cone of vision is limited to a square that cover only half of the monitor. So I tend to work with lower zoom, spending more time on thumbnails, then coloring at a postcard size; before really zooming in the details. It influences the brushes I’ll tend to favor for this task.
I’ll continue a bit on this experimentation, if I change my mind by the next month; I still have my Intuos and changing the setup can be done in less than an hour. I’ll see and I hope this long reply was interesting.