Hey guys~
I am thinking to get a drawing tablet sometime soon, but dunno what kind to get.
Im an amateur artist and just need something that can draw and paint. (Hopefully it can work with krita, drawing application I have rn)
Any recommendations?
-Galaxy

I've not really got much experience with tablets (I've only ever had one graphics tablet my entire life lol), but I'd say a good place to start might be a small Wacom tablet (like an Intuos Draw), or maybe Huion (unfortunately I have never used one, but from what I understand, they're pretty good when it comes to cheap tablets to start with - Wacom can be quite expensive). There was another make of tablet that I was going to recommend that my friend has, but unfortunately I've forgotten the name of it.

Probably the most important thing would be that the tablet supports pen pressure - it's incredibly useful, especially for brushes that work with pen pressure being equal to the opacity of the colour, like watercolour brushes.

Some tablet pens also have a feature where, if you flip them over, it switches to the eraser tool. It's not 100% necessary, but I find that it can make cleaning up images just that little bit faster.

As for the screen, I would say that it's probably best to start with a tablet that doesn't have a display - it can take some time to get used to looking at your laptop screen/ monitor instead of where at you are drawing, but tablets like that tend to be far less expensive.

From personal experience, a tablet screen doesn't need to be much bigger than an A5 piece of paper. I have a Wacom Intuos Pro L, which has an active area of about A4 paper, and it's massive (just for a sense of scale, here it is with a piece of A4 paper on it). I thought I wouldn't be able to draw on something smaller, which was a mistake - actually, in some ways, I think it can be harder to draw with a larger screen, especially when it's bigger than the display you're viewing the image on lol.

One thing I will say is that my Wacom was a little bit temperamental when I first got it. I'm not sure why, but sometimes it would draw random lines when I wasn't doing anything (this only happened extremely rarely, but I couldn't use it all day if it did). I've had mine for almost 5 years now though (I'm not quite sure how it survived 12/13-year-old me lol) and this problem seems to have vanished. I don't know if it extends to other Wacom tablets, it might not considering that they've probably updated a lot since then.

Also, Wacom pens are notoriously expensive to replace if you break or lose them. They should come with spare pen ends though in case you wear them down, and they're pretty decent - I've only had to change pen ends once in all the years that I've been using my tablet, and I've still got nine unused spares left.

As a quick note about pens, they will generally wear down much quicker when you first get the tablet, so it's a good idea to watch the ends closely to begin with so that you don't leave them to the point of getting stuck in the pen because they're so short. If you accidentally leave it that long though, you can always use a pin to get them out lol (*cough cough* Exactly what I had to do).

I hope some of that information was useful '^^ Good luck finding a tablet!

Hello Galaxy,

I support atomics report wholeheartedly :)
IMO the Wacom Draw or Wacom Art are perfect for gettings started. They technical support for Wacoms is great. They are a bit more expensive then huion though. Personally I love Wacom and would never change the brand. I am using the tablets (without screen) for nearly 15 years now.

When you are still experimenting with digital drawing and not sure, if its "your thing" - then the wacom draw would be alright I guess. It does not have features like expression keys. Dont think you realy need them as a beginner. Also it does not have the "touch" feature, which the wacom art has. So on the wacom draw you can not make gestures on the tablet to enlarge things for example. I am using a wacom with touch function - and turned it off, cause I have a small table and was always screwing my userinterface with accidental swipes and such ;)

And for size: "M" is absolutly fine for me. With "L" I tend to do bigger movements and so my shoulder aches sometimes. The "little" Wacom Draw and Art are a size S - but the should work out well for a start.

And at least a some buying advice: At the Wacon Online Store is a market called "B Ware" in german. Maybe "b goods" in english? That are products which are reduced in price but in neary perfect quality. Take a look at it. I got my first used tablet from ebay and it still was in great shape.

- Cheers Chico

I'd suggest getting a tablet then downloading autodesksketchbook, which is free(but after a period, you need to buy a subscription) I do suggest buying a tablet with a large screen, as it helps with details :)

Thanks everyone :D