Review on 🖌️ Monoprice 110594 Graphic Drawing Tablet (10x6.25-inch, 4000 LPI, 200 RPS, 2048 Levels), 10x6.25, 5080 LPI, Black - High-precision, Professional-Grade Tablet for Graphic Artists by Maria Ward

A few years ago I recommended this particular tablet to a friend who was looking to buy her first tablet. The recommendation came from another friend of mine who has used other tablets in the past and is a graphic designer by trade. She has had the Monoprice for several years now and trusts it for its price, functionality and durability. Fast forward to this year. My old Wacom Intuos has started giving me some problems. I say "started" but it gave me some trouble because of the jump, no matter what drivers I installed, no matter what I tried to change in the settings, no matter what. The problems only multiplied and got worse until I got tired of constantly trying to get functionality out of the Intuos (the second Wacom I had was the first Bamboo over a decade ago which gave me similar problems). 2 friends who have sworn monoprice so thought this would be my backup. And omg What is the difference to my old Intuos. Wonderful, wonderful difference. First, I was able to get a Monoprice with almost twice the artboard for half the price of the old Intuos. I don't necessarily NEED a large area, but I enjoy it immensely. (If you don't have enough space to use it, that could be a problem.) Second, there are more keyboard shortcuts on this one than on my old one (and they work properly; half the time the settings were mysteriously reset) . on the Intuos and I should go in and redo them) and not only are they amazing because they're on the side instead of the top, but they're tuned to what I need with no adjustment drivers turned out to be no harder than in the Case of Intuos (I accepted other reviewers' suggestion to download the Huion drivers instead of the ones that came with this tablet). Fourth, pen. It takes a AAA battery, which makes it a bit heavier than the Intuos pen, but I don't even realize it right now. It's also thicker, which has been great for my arm pain. I regularly use 3 graphics/painting programs - an old version of Photoshop (it's so old it's old enough to be voted on and legal to drink in a year), PaintToolSAI and Krita. Intuos has consistently given me problems on all three occasions. Monoprice gave me no problems at all. (Except I was 2 versions behind the latest Krita so touch sensitivity didn't work until I upgraded). The pressure sensitivity works like a dream even when I plug in the tablet after launching the program; If I hadn't plugged in the Intuos first, the pressure sensitivity never worked, and even then it wouldn't work half the time (restarting the program fixed that part of the time; the rest required a system reboot). Pressure sensitivity also works pretty well in ZBrushCore Mini (which is why I fantasize about the rest of this suite of programs), judging by the little bit I've played around with it. programs without any additional effort on my part to create them. To a lesser extent, this applies to ZBrush; In the short time I've played around with this I think the brush size buttons are the only ones that do what they say there (the increase/decrease buttons seem to work like a ctrl key I guess me, which is why they work in ZBrush, just not for scaling). I found only 2 very minor downsides that in no way affect my rating or satisfaction with this tablet. No tilt support. But I knew what was going on and I didn't care. I didn't have that with Intuos, and while it's a cool feature, I wouldn't use it very often, if at all. 2. I couldn't find a wireless adapter for it (there was one for my Intuos, but I would have trouble finding one now, even though it's old). Again, no violator. I don't need it at all as the cable is quite long. I just like fewer cables, but I can live with that. Back to the price. I once spent about $80 on my Bamboo, and while the Intuos was a gift a few years later (I wouldn't have done it otherwise, I chose a different Wacom), I know that this model was popular at the time sold for about $100. Despite the price and supposedly good reputation of Wacom, I'm not very happy with any of them. However, I have nothing but good things to say about this Monoprice tablet. It's great for both beginners and advanced users, it has good features and a large artboard, it feels pretty solid (especially since it lives in my laptop bag when not in use) and you really can't beat the price hit.