I use the art pen on my Cintiq 16. The pro-pen 2 is great, but there is no barrel rotation, something that I have got used to with my Intuos 3, which had that 6d art pen with the marker shaped tip. That one was the best. When I upgraded I had to get the newer art pen, which still works well, but when it breaks, it is nearly impossible to find now. Barrel rotation is really my only impetus to stay with Wacom these days.
the problem with defining a group of artists as finding it challenging working on a pen display tablet is that it does not account for what they are doing on it. I practically grew up on art using a pen tablet and had absolutely no problem drawing on it, however it wasn't until I got into a professional drafting job that I realised actually this is completely contextual to what you are doing, if you are doing loose gestural linework, or digital painting you can probably get by just fine on a non display tablet. But, if you want accurate linework (providing it has a laminated display) a screen really helps with line control and accuracy in a way I was not able to achieve with a pen tablet despite trying really hard (as I didnt want to admit I might be wrong) I suspect this is why some artist struggle with them, not because they cant get there head around it but because how they are used to drawing, the degree of accuracy they are used to achieving, is not something they can achieve with the abstracted environment of a pen tablet.
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I use the art pen on my Cintiq 16. The pro-pen 2 is great, but there is no barrel rotation, something that I have got used to with my Intuos 3, which had that 6d art pen with the marker shaped tip. That one was the best. When I upgraded I had to get the newer art pen, which still works well, but when it breaks, it is nearly impossible to find now. Barrel rotation is really my only impetus to stay with Wacom these days.
the problem with defining a group of artists as finding it challenging working on a pen display tablet is that it does not account for what they are doing on it.
I practically grew up on art using a pen tablet and had absolutely no problem drawing on it, however it wasn't until I got into a professional drafting job that I realised actually this is completely contextual to what you are doing, if you are doing loose gestural linework, or digital painting you can probably get by just fine on a non display tablet. But, if you want accurate linework (providing it has a laminated display) a screen really helps with line control and accuracy in a way I was not able to achieve with a pen tablet despite trying really hard (as I didnt want to admit I might be wrong) I suspect this is why some artist struggle with them, not because they cant get there head around it but because how they are used to drawing, the degree of accuracy they are used to achieving, is not something they can achieve with the abstracted environment of a pen tablet.
I should clarify though this does not mean I think a pen display is always the superior option