XP-Pen Artist 10 2nd Graphic Display
The XP-Pen Artist 10 2nd Graphic Display has effortless portability, A wide colour gamut, Anti-glare, fully laminated, FHD display, new X3 technology, and cost-effectiveness. It gathered all of the advantages and meets all of the fantasy.
I’d been wanting a graphics tablet for years but hadn’t been able to afford one until recently, and with my regular tablet starting to break down I decided to take the plunge and get one. I chose this one after looking at quite a few options. I picked it because of the price point, what I’d heard about XP-pen customer service and quality, and also I don’t have a large amount of desk space. the tablet’s small enough for me while not being so small it’d be difficult to use my programs. Also…it’s pink, which is one of my favourite colours.
XP-Pen Artist 10 2nd Graphic Display Features:
- Powered by X3 smart chip( 3g initial activation force, 0.6mm retraction distance)
- 4 colores vibrantes
- Compatible with Android
- The most portable and cost-effective display of the New Artist Series
I left the protective film on until my screen protector comes in cos wear and tear happens with pretty much every tablet, it’s just easier to miss cos with regular tablets no screen or light is coming through to highlight the scratches, so make sure you have screen protectors and changing them out when you need to is important.
I’ve included pics of the tablet program, and the customization options because that was my major worry. A lot of tablet programs and drivers are clunky, this one though is not. Frankly, it’s been one of the best ones I’ve dealt with over the years, super intuitive, and easy to use. It was easy to customize my hotkeys, and I can also save my hotkeys specific to each program which is SO NICE. I work in several different programs and tested this with affinity photo and affinity designer, as well as paint tool sai, Blender, and Krita, and all worked well. Being able to tailor the hotkeys for each program makes workflow a lot smoother.
Once I downloaded the driver, installed it, and restarted, it didn’t take long to get started at all. I work on a Windows 10 PC and when you first open it up the tablet mirrors your screen, and you can just get started working from there. However, you can also set it up as a second monitor, which is what I did, by going into the display settings and hitting detect. Once it registers the tablet as a second monitor, you can change it from mirror mode to extend, which lets you have your program open on the tablet screen exclusively while freeing up your main monitor for things like the internet, or in my case, my refs are on my main screen so I can just look up when I draw. It makes life a lot easier. Keep in mind the second monitor setup is still active even though the tablet is turned off, just in case you’re wondering where your mouse is.
XP-Pen Artist 10 2nd Graphic Display Review
Calibrating was easy, I haven’t had any issues with parallax but I also don’t dot the pen straight down vertically. When calibrating I hold the pen the way I would when painting, and tap the crosshairs with the tablet at the angle I’d use to work. It has several automatic screen temperature options for the colours and one of them matches my screen almost perfectly so I didn’t have to mess with calibrating the screen colours. However, it does have RGB and brightness and contrast sliders for you to do this if you need to, which is super helpful.
For the physical connectors, I have it plugged in with the HDMI USB cord it came with. I tried using it without plugging the second USB into a plug but there was some flickering because my laptop didn’t have enough power to supply the screen consistently, which is normal, and I expected it cos I have a lot of peripherals plugged into my PC. It’s the same reason why you can’t use a lot of USB hubs without an external power source or things start to fail. Your computer only has so much wattage to give, so I used the additionally included extension cable and plugged it into an actual plug. After that, it was fine and there’s been no more flickering since.
Overall, the XP-Pen Artist 10 2nd Graphic Display has been pretty good, we’ll see if I need to change my review in time but so far I’m pretty happy with it.
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