XP-Pen Deco 01 V2 Beginner Drawing Tablet for Art

Digital art is not easier than traditional art. In general, one must first learn how to draw to be able to be good at all. Switching between traditional and digital media offers select advantages and disadvantages but it does not correspond to your drawing skills getting better. Rather, what makes the difference is practice; the more you practice (no matter what media) the better you get at drawing.

The computer drawing pad is a essential tool for digital art , and it runs all sorts of art desktop applications ( such as photoshop , illustrator ...). Drawing with pen tablet is very natural, smooth & accurate.

I purchased the XP-Pen Deco 01 V2 ( https://www.xp-pen.com/product/461.html ) to begin my foray into digital art. Having used this drawing tablet for about 3 years now, I felt it was time for a review.

Specifications:

The XP-Pen Deco 01 V2 graphics tablet with a large 10 x 6.25 inch working area, allowing you to get creative without worrying about the space constraints.

It is only 8mm thick, so handling it is easy. with 8 customizable keys, you can set shortcuts for the pen, brush, eraser and more.

It offers 8,192 levels of pen pressure sensitivity and 60 degrees of tilt senstivity which provides more accurate and responsive pen-cursor movement, makes your drawing smooth with natural lines. the stylus can be used directly without battery or charging.

It compatible with Android devices. also works great with Windows and macOS computers.

Use Experience

After installing the XP-Pen Deco 01 V2, I began exploring the digital medium landscape by trying out the paid software offer of Artrage 5, alongside various other different free software including Medibang Paint,Gimp , Krita, etc.

The surface of the tablet is smooth and quite sensitive (which can be managed via tablet settings). What did take a while to get used to was the hand-eye coordination between the tablet and the screen. This is because the Deco 01 V2 is a drawing tablet as opposed to a graphics tablet. Though this was highly frustrating at first, I eventually got the hang of it. Having to balance your hand-eye coordination also motivated the good practice of focusing on my monitor, and observing the subject of my drawing, as opposed to switching back and forth from my tablet to the screen (as one is often prone to do when drawing with pencil and paper).

The Deco 01 V2 from XP-Pen ( https://www.xp-pen.com ) comes with a pen as well as extra nibs provided in the package. Getting used to the tablet also involved getting the hang of how the pen worked on the tablet's surface. Much of this was made flexible via the tablet software allowing one to make relevant modifications on pen pressure to helping it feel akin to an actual pencil.