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XP-Pen Artist 24 Pro drawing tablet screen review
4 years ago
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Hey guys, I found a best budget 24" display drawing tablet to try out digital art on, and I've gotten a few request to give one to help those who are on the fence on getting this tablet, I,ve decided to do an in-depth review. this tablet is come from xp-pen ( https://www.xp-pen.com ) brand which been known as affordable.
I,ve had this XP-Pen Artist 24 Pro huge display tablet for about a month and a half, during that time I,ve used it for art, work and media consumption as a secondary monitor.
Out of the box, the tablet looks great and well built, even though it,s mostly plastic there wasn,t any creaking when handled and it comes with a decent metal stand attached so you could use it at various angles, although I soon replaced it with a Ergotron LX arm as I want more manoeuvrability when doing art and it helps get the right height that I need so my neck won,t strain when spending long hours drawing.
Turning it on, the thing that stuck out to me was how bright the screen was and everything looked nice and crisp, you might have to make some colour adjustments based on your preference but I find that I didn,t really need to do much apart from adjusting the colour temperature.
Once in photoshop and clip studio, the high resolution made all the UI take up less screen space and that was a great thing, it means you get to have more UI elements on the screen without compromising your drawing area, making the use of references much more comfortable.
Installing the driver software went quite smoothly and I had a try of both the main driver and the beta driver, I ended up using the main driver as the calibration was more accurate and was less buggy.
The pen pressure after some tweaks was great, the initial activation pressure was minimal, as I,ve done research before buying this tablet, I,ve found out that you can tune the pen physically by taking the button cover off and rotating the small screw on the inside until you get the pressure levels that you desire.
Drawing experience is decent overall, screen is lightly textured to give you some resistance so it,s not like drawing on smooth glass, there still remains the wobbly diagonal lines that most screen tablets suffer from but it isn,t noticeable once you draw normally and apply some line smoothing, I use 10-15% smoothing in photoshop.
As for parallax, since the display isn,t laminated it will be noticeable but I personally don,t mind it, as you look at the brush cursor when you draw not the tip of the pen so I suffer no accuracy issues.
The 20 express keys and the 2 dials are a great addition, I can fit all of the shortcuts I need on it, the challenge is just trying to remember which is which for each app you use When pressed it will display the shortcut used on the bottom of the screen in green text, I find them to be responsive and well integrated.
Connection wise, while the cables that came with the tablet is sufficient, I recommend buying some decent quality cables to connect to your computer as some people have had issues with their display but it turns out to be the cheap cables that XP-pen provided, I got myself a long usb C to usb A and a HDMI cable to use with my Ergotron arm.
All in all the XP-Pen Artist 24 Pro ( https://www.xp-pen.com/product/602.html ) Tablet is well worth the price and more than capable to produce the professional quality work that I do. I have used a Cintiq companion for a while and got an IPad Pro and while it isn,t as accurate as Apple,s proprietary hardware, it definitely is close to or on par with Wacom in terms of drawing experience.
Last tip is to make sure you set the pressure to something lighter as drawing hard can wear out both the nib and screen protector quickly and leave scratch marks. Wiping the screen before drawing to get rid of dust particles would help as well.
I,ve had this XP-Pen Artist 24 Pro huge display tablet for about a month and a half, during that time I,ve used it for art, work and media consumption as a secondary monitor.
Out of the box, the tablet looks great and well built, even though it,s mostly plastic there wasn,t any creaking when handled and it comes with a decent metal stand attached so you could use it at various angles, although I soon replaced it with a Ergotron LX arm as I want more manoeuvrability when doing art and it helps get the right height that I need so my neck won,t strain when spending long hours drawing.
Turning it on, the thing that stuck out to me was how bright the screen was and everything looked nice and crisp, you might have to make some colour adjustments based on your preference but I find that I didn,t really need to do much apart from adjusting the colour temperature.
Once in photoshop and clip studio, the high resolution made all the UI take up less screen space and that was a great thing, it means you get to have more UI elements on the screen without compromising your drawing area, making the use of references much more comfortable.
Installing the driver software went quite smoothly and I had a try of both the main driver and the beta driver, I ended up using the main driver as the calibration was more accurate and was less buggy.
The pen pressure after some tweaks was great, the initial activation pressure was minimal, as I,ve done research before buying this tablet, I,ve found out that you can tune the pen physically by taking the button cover off and rotating the small screw on the inside until you get the pressure levels that you desire.
Drawing experience is decent overall, screen is lightly textured to give you some resistance so it,s not like drawing on smooth glass, there still remains the wobbly diagonal lines that most screen tablets suffer from but it isn,t noticeable once you draw normally and apply some line smoothing, I use 10-15% smoothing in photoshop.
As for parallax, since the display isn,t laminated it will be noticeable but I personally don,t mind it, as you look at the brush cursor when you draw not the tip of the pen so I suffer no accuracy issues.
The 20 express keys and the 2 dials are a great addition, I can fit all of the shortcuts I need on it, the challenge is just trying to remember which is which for each app you use When pressed it will display the shortcut used on the bottom of the screen in green text, I find them to be responsive and well integrated.
Connection wise, while the cables that came with the tablet is sufficient, I recommend buying some decent quality cables to connect to your computer as some people have had issues with their display but it turns out to be the cheap cables that XP-pen provided, I got myself a long usb C to usb A and a HDMI cable to use with my Ergotron arm.
All in all the XP-Pen Artist 24 Pro ( https://www.xp-pen.com/product/602.html ) Tablet is well worth the price and more than capable to produce the professional quality work that I do. I have used a Cintiq companion for a while and got an IPad Pro and while it isn,t as accurate as Apple,s proprietary hardware, it definitely is close to or on par with Wacom in terms of drawing experience.
Last tip is to make sure you set the pressure to something lighter as drawing hard can wear out both the nib and screen protector quickly and leave scratch marks. Wiping the screen before drawing to get rid of dust particles would help as well.
