Review on VEIKK VK1200 Drawing Tablet with Screen: 11.6 inch Full-Laminated Drawing Monitor with 6 Shortcut Keys and 8192 Levels Tilt Function Pen for PC/Mac - Perfect for Anime Teaching (120%sRGB) by Kim Bell

I apologize for the length of the review, but I had to convey all the positives and negatives of this tablet. Pros: • I LOVE that I can see what I'm drawing myself on the tablet instead of drawing on a notepad while looking at the computer screen. • The metal body is durable and gives your tablet a rugged and rugged look. • Buttons are sensitive and tactile. • The pressure sensitivity is good and the workmanship of the pen is solid. • Color accuracy and brightness are good. • Initial setup is relatively quick to get up and running, although there were some software issues that slowed setup down a bit. • The laminated screen has a paper-like texture that's sticky enough, yet smooth enough to be used without gloves when you don't want to use them. It is very convenient to lean on it with your hand to draw. • This tablet stays relatively cool. This tablet has a metal body and is designed to dissipate heat. Most heat is dissipated upwards rather than downwards. So if you intend to use it on your lap, apart from a small heat build-up around the edge of one of the long sides, the rest of the case stays cool. Disadvantages: • The main disadvantage is the combination of accuracy and size. An important part of any pen tablet is how well you can calibrate it (make the cursor accurately follow the pen tip). Unfortunately, the calibration on this display is extremely inconsistent. In particular, I can set it up so that when drawing in the middle of the screen, the cursor stays in place. But when I draw at the top of the screen, my cursor is about an eighth of an inch lower. Then when I draw at the bottom of the screen, the eighth inch is left. When I draw on the far left of the tablet, the cursor is an eighth of an inch lower again. (The pen tilts in the same direction at every point, so tilt doesn't matter.) I've calibrated dozens of times and can't get the cursor to follow exactly where the pen is drawing. • The tablet has an 11 inch screen, but you also have to consider that you will need access to the software toolbars and your taskbar, and unless you are working on a landscaping project your actual practical drawing area is closer to 3.5x 4. 5 inches. . That's not bad per se, but it's far from ideal given the inconsistent pen tracking. The offset was enough for me to click completely different tools than I intended. • You can scale the Windows UI so that the toolbar in your program is larger (which I've tried), but then your tool's property windows are off-screen, you'll have to move them to another monitor (and your mouse use). for interaction, which slows down my workflow a lot. It also doesn't fix inconsistent tracking, it just makes the toolbar buttons big enough so they're less likely to be missed. • The included software has multiple features including screen shows, pen calibration, and keyboard shortcuts. When setting up the display, I expanded the display as a 3rd monitor. However, when I needed to calibrate my display, the calibration screen appeared on one of the other two monitors. Also, you could not exit the calibration screen without closing the program when viewing it on a different monitor, or reorient the tablet to that monitor. Sometimes restarting fixed it, but then I changed the position of the monitor and I had to solve the problem again. I mirrored my primary display and disabled the secondary display to force the program to open the calibration screen on the tablet itself. • They also did not include modern compliance warnings to inform users that the functions of the buttons on the pen can be overridden. Windows system settings. This caused the pen buttons to right-click when my shortcut should have been broken. I had to read several pages on the internet to find the reason. • One of the two included pens had a sharp-edged pen tip, probably leftover plastic from the time of manufacture. It was sharp enough that I decided to switch tips and use a different tip until I filed or rounded it. It comes with plenty of interchangeable tips, but losing one before even using the device was a little disappointing. • The tablet's buttons themselves are made of a material that easily picks up oil from your fingers and looked pretty dirty after an hour or two of use. If you make a quick movement along the edge of the screen, you can injure your hand, although it's not a big risk. I'm discreet and usually wear gloves so it doesn't bother me much but it's worth mentioning. Speaking of gloves, the included glove is medium to small in size. So if you have big hands like me, you will probably feel uncomfortable wearing a glove and may need to purchase an alternative. Verdict: Overall, the tablet is a good start. tablet for those who want to experience the benefits of a screen or have a portable pen tablet as a drawing pad on the go. It's also a very good option for the price if you paint a lot or do art with large brush sizes where precision isn't that important. I'd recommend trying to find something bigger and more precise if you plan to inked or draw more, or use the device in a program that requires a lot of navigation through menus, tools, and windows so you have more room to draw and menu navigation. I give this tablet 4 stars.