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Great nonglare screen that feels drawing on paper. Wacom’s double-tap to draw makes startup fast. Pro Pen 3 is excellent for drawing. Reasonably powerful. Can be used as traditional tablet to watch movies, etc.
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No microSD card slot. Not usable in direct sunlight. Large canvases with many layers will be laggy.
Wacom’s new MovinkPad 11 is a compelling alternative to the iPad for serious digital artists looking for a portable sketching tool. It’s not as powerful as a full workstation or even an iPad, but the battery life is good, the drawing experience is best in class, and you can take it with you.
Whether you’re a confirmed digital fan or, me, still prefer paper and pens or pencils but want to dabble in digital art, the MovinkPad is a compelling alternative to the iPad. An iPad is more ly to suck you into the internet or disrupt you with messages from friends. You can put such distractions on the MovinkPad (don’t!), but out of the box it’s a more focused device designed to get out of your way and let you get to drawing.
A Digital Sketch Pad
Your standard digital art setup is a computer, ideally a powerful desktop with a nice monitor, a drawing tablet, and some sort of desktop software. Alternatively, many people use an iPad, but in my experience you really want an iPad Pro for the ProMotion display, or at the very least an Air for the M-series chip. Neither of these are cheap.
The Wacom MovinkPad 11 seeks to combine these experiences into a single device. It’s a tablet-first drawing device with a screen that’s what you’d use with a desktop drawing pad. Indeed, drawing on the MovinkPad is the closest thing to drawing on paper that I’ve tested.
The MovinkPad 11 is an Android 14 tablet, with 8 gigabytes of RAM and a 128 gigabytes of storage. Unfortunately, there’s no microSD card slot. The screen is an 11-inch, 2,200 x 1,440-pixel LCD display with an anti-glare treatment and a surface texture that does a good job of mimicking paper. The display is directly bonded to the textured surface so you don’t have that drawing on glass feeling that you get with iPad. The actual drawing area is 9.6 inches by 6.3 inches.
The MovinkPad runs Android and ships with the Google Play Store so you can use it as you would an ordinary Android tablet: watching movies, browsing the web, and so on. The focus however is very much on drawing. Think of the MovinkPad as your portable digital sketchbook.
Photograph: Scott Gilbertson
I found performance was fair for the price. This is not an iPad Pro, but it’s also not $1,000. I found that most drawing apps were able to keep up with the brush without any trouble until I started using really large brushes and making long, fast strokes, which did cause some lag. Since this is not at all how I draw, I don’t see it a deal-breaker, but do be aware that potential for lag exists.
The MovinkPad 11 comes with Wacom’s Pro Pen 3, the same pen that comes with Wacom’s high-end drawing tablets such as the Cintiq series. The Pro Pen 3 is fantastic and so much easier and more intuitive to draw with than the Apple Pencil. If all you’ve ever drawn with onscreen is the Apple Pencil, the Pro Pen 3 will be a serious upgrade. My favorite part is that there’s no battery, so you never have to worry about charging it.
The pressure sensitivity of the Pen when used with the MovinkPad is excellent, and moving from a thin to thick stroke feels the same as it does on paper—press harder and the pen instantly responds. It’s also great at mimicking a pencil, you just tilt the pen to get the same effect you’d get using the side of your pencil, which makes shading much more natural. It’s not just pencil and pen brushes though, you can pretty effectively imitate and control brushes such as pallet knives.
While the Pro Pen 3 that ships with the MovinkPad s a name with the version that ships with the Cintiq, it’s lighter, made of plastic rather than metal, and somewhat less capable. I’ve seen some reviews complain that the Pen 3 that comes with the MovinkPad is too light, but not having tried the Cintiq models, I didn’t notice this. I found it to be almost exactly the weight of a real pencil, and therefore it felt very natural to draw with.
The one downside to the MovinkPad being Android is that there’s no Wacom control panel where you can customize the pen buttons you can with desktop software. You can still customize what the buttons do in each app, though.
Double Tap
Photograph: Scott Gilbertson
One bonus feature that I d that you won’t find on a desktop, though, is the ability to double tap the pen on the sleeping screen and have it wake up and open a new canvas, allowing you to instantly start drawing. Unfortunately, this works only with the new Wacom Canvas app, which ships with the MovinkPad but is somewhat limited features-wise next to more powerful apps ClipStudio or Krita. (The bulk of my testing was done using these two.)
Still, for quickly capturing ideas, picking up the MovinkPad 11 and double tapping removes a lot of the friction inherent in digital drawing. It’s almost as fast as picking up a pen and opening a notebook.
Given the MovinkPad’s size, I thought I’d try it outdoors. While it’s fine on a sunny day if you can get under some shade, working in direct sunlight is nearly impossible.
Despite my love of drawing, I am primarily a writer, and the MovinkPad 3 works great as a digital notepad. If you want something that can sketch and capture notes, it’s a good option, even though some of the dedicated notepads might be better for the actual note-taking. Most digital notepads are terrible for sketching.
I d the MovinkPad for my kids because it gives them a high-quality drawing device without the complexity of desktop software. While I would not limit the MovinkPad to a device for kids, I do think it’s best suited for beginning artists or as a second device to use away from your primary drawing workstation. It’s much better both in performance and features than most of Wacom’s entry-level tablets, and I enjoyed it far more than using an iPad.
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