Drawing tablet advise needed

[getafix33]

Hi

My daughter is off the study a 3 year BA degree in Digital Design and one of the hardware devices is a drawing tablet.

They institute recommend the Wacom Intuos S or M or Huion Inspiroy H610X. I have no idea if these are any good and if there are alternatives at a more reasonable cost.

Please give me your thoughts.

TIA

 

[NeonNinja]

I use the Intuos S, and I've got a spare Huion H430P, have had them for 1+yrs, changed pen tips like once. They're the same thing, just a different pen tip feel and different default sensitivity. But I wouldn't mind going bigger, but haven't really seen the reason to. You can go with either imo.

 

[getafix33]

I use the Intuos S, and I've got a spare Huion H430P, have had them for 1+yrs, changed pen tips like once. They're the same thing, just a different pen tip feel and different default sensitivity. But I wouldn't mind going bigger, but haven't really seen the reason to. You can go with either imo.

Thanks for the input

 

[Rick]

When I dabbled in drawing, after practising on paper, this was my first proper attempt, using the absolute cheapest Wacom I could find on takealot, and open source software called Gimp.

 

[jezzad]

A lot of the designers I worked with used Wacom and nothing else.

 

[Itsa Trap]

Wacom is the goto brand usually, but the brand name comes with a brand price. The S is not badly priced, but the Huion is even less. If you can fork out for the Wacom, go Wacom, but Huion is fine as well.

I follow a guy who uses a Huion to do 3d Sculpting in software like blender (but he uses the display type tablet) and honestly to track the drawing real time is great as it is far more natural than working on one plane and tracking on another - but display tablets are way more expensive.

That said it's a skill she'll learn over time, so not the biggest issue.