Many artists, illustrators, and graphic designers have started to turn towards using tablets to complete their art projects. A good tablet offers an artist a light, handy, responsive, and electronic option to get projects done, even when they aren’t at the office.

Wacom Intuos Pro

The Best Drawing Tablets For Most Artists

• XP-Pen Artist 15.6 Pro. BEST OVERALL.
• GAOMON PD1560 Drawing Tablet. BEST MID-RANGE.
• Galaxy Tab S7. BEST FOR ANDROID USERS.
• Wacom Intuos Pro L Drawing Tablet. HONORABLE MENTION.
• Wacom Intuos S Drawing Tablet.
• XP-Pen Deco 01 V2 Drawing Tablet.
• XP-Pen G430S.
• Huion H420 Drawing Tablet KIT.

The Best Tablets for Artists Creating Digital Works

1. Huion Kamvas 22 Plus.
2. Wacom One Digital Drawing Tablet.
3. XP-Pen Digital Graphics Drawing Tablet.
4. Apple iPad Pro.
5. Gaomon PD1161.

The greatest difference between these two is that one has a screen on which you can see your work while you do it and the other one does not. Graphics tablets need to be connected up to a computer to be used. Drawing tablets can be used on their own as the screen shows you what you’re drawing as you draw it.

Value. Whilst Huion provide excellent value for money and in many ways perform just as well as Wacom products, Wacom outperforms them when it comes to the build quality, stylus and manufacture support. And for those that can afford it, Wacom wins every time.

Huion has improved its more serious, professional tablets to the point where they seriously compete with Wacom’s flagship models. We’ll also take a look at the lower end of the scale, and see how something like the Huion H610 Pro V2 compares to the more affordable Wacom Intuos Small.

HUION (Chinese: 绘王; pinyin: Huìwáng) is a China-based drawing tablet brand founded in 2011 by Henry Xu.

The Best Cheap Drawing Tablets Are…

• Best Overall Budget Tablet Winner: Huion H610 Pro Graphic Drawing Tablet.
• Best Drawing Performance: Wacom Intuos Drawing Tablet.
• Best For Developing Artists: Veikk A30 Drawing Tablet.
• Best For Large Working Areas: XP-PEN Deco 01 V2 Drawing Tablet.

• 5 Best Affordable Drawing Tablets Under $100.
• Wacom Intuos Draw Small CTL4100 – (My Top Pick Under $100)
• Huion Inspiroy H1161 Drawing Tablet NEW!
• XP-Pen Deco Pro Small – (Award-Winning Design)
• Veikk A15 Pro graphics tablet – (Best Value Drawing Tablet For Beginners)
• Huion H610 Pro V2 (Best Drawing Tablet Under $50)

A drawing tablet can cost you just around 30$ to over 2.500$! This depends on what you want of course. The average price for a pretty decent tablet, without a screen, is about 74.4$. While the average price for a high quality, screened drawing tablet is around 850$.

The Best Drawing Tablets for Beginners

• Our pick. Wacom Intuos S. The best drawing tablet for beginners. The most compatible, customizable, and precise graphics tablet beginners can get for less than $100.
• Also great. Huion 1060Plus. A larger, cheaper option.
• Upgrade pick. Wacom Intuos Pro. The graphics tablet for pros.

Without going into the nitty-gritty, when you compare the two devices the processor on the Apple iPad Pro is more powerful than the Surface Pro 7. With that said, both the tablets are sufficiently powerful to handle intensive drawing-related works.

Another brand highly comparable with the likes of GAOMON and XP-Pen is VEIKK, and the A15 model offers good usability at an affordable price. It has a battery-free pen with 8192 pressure sensitivity and 250 PPS, a standard 10 x 6 inch active area to work on, and 12 customisable express keys.

Our Verdict. The Wacom One is a solid entry into the budget drawing tablet market. For Windows and older Mac owners looking for an affordable drawing screen, the Wacom One should be high on the list. For newer Mac and Apple Pencil equipped iPad owners, the recent inclusion of SideCar makes it a harder sell.

They Are Trusted Products With The Market Recognition That amount of trust, along with their build quality, makes Wacom’s products suitable for professional use, and in that regard, they are not that really expensive.

But the Apple is close, and it offers a much, much better overall experience as a portable, stand-alone art tablet – also because the Apple iPad Pro has much better battery life, which is woefully short on the Wacom MobileStudio Pro.

Is iPad Pro better than Wacom? That depends on what you’re using to make the comparison. If you’re looking for a portable, multipurpose tablet, the iPad Pro is a great option. It is cheaper than the Wacom and allows you to pursue drawing and digital graphics as an art.

Download the free Duet app on your desktop and purchase the app on your iPad. Then simply plug your iPad into your desktop using your charging cable. With Duet, you can turn your iPad and Apple Pencil into a graphics tablet optimized specifically for designers, illustrators and artists.

The iPad Pro isn’t a good drawing tablet, it’s excellent. The latency is so low, especially with Procreate and Astropad, that one can draw as quickly as one wishes without lag. Apple claims only 9 milliseconds of latency with iOS 13. Try drawing with the pencil tool in Apple’s Notes app, then magnify it.