Do you feel torn between buying a wacom pen display and conserving money or space?
Spending hours shopping around for the best-suited tablet for your needs really sucks when you have amazing art to make.
If you’re looking for a reliable happy medium that feels natural to draw on, without wrecking your finances, I may have found what you seek.
In this Wacom One 14 review I will help you find out if this is the graphics tablet that’s just right for your artistic needs.
What’s in the box?
Inside the understated white box, prospective buyers will find the Wacom one 14 tablet itself, alongside a nib remover tool, 3 spare nibs, a USB-C to USB-C cable, and the battery-free stylus.
Design & Buld Quality
The Wacom One 14 features a sleek, slim, and clean design with no customizeable buttons.
For its small size, and light weight, the One 14 pen display is a great option for working on the move since it takes up little space.
A Quality Screen
Wacom provides you with a 14 inch IPS LCD display that allows a lot of room for letting your imagination run wild.
That, along with the high FHD resolution (1920×1080), 1000:1 Contrast ratio, 285cd/m2 brightness, and 98% of sRGB color spectrum, offering a visual treat to anyone working with it.
The screen is fully laminated to reduces parallax, so you can see exactly where the cursor is and draw with precision.
The matte etched glass surface reduces glare while working in a brighter setting and gives a more resistant feeling when you draw, similar to paper.
It isn’t a touchscreen, though, so doesn’t support gesture controls. If you want this handy function, check out for Wacom One 13 Touch.
Stylus Pen
The Pen that comes with the wacom one 14 is ergonomic and fun to use.
As expected, the pen is battery-free with EMR technology. So I won’t ever have to buy batteries or watch their charge just to sketch.
Two buttons on the pen speed up my workflow quite a bit, allowing for quick changing of size and such.
It has 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity, which maybe a drop behind Cintiq’s 8K, but it’s good for pro artists and hobbyists alike.
This pen sensitivity plus the tilt-response and lag-free tracking makes it feel quite “real” and fun to use, allowing for a broad range of line widths to be drawn or add shading.
Connectivity
Even though the one 14 tablet has a built-in screen, this model still requires you to connect it to a computer or laptop for it to work.
If you need a standalone pen display you should look at the 11-inch Wacom Movinkpad 11 or 14-inch Movinkpad 14 instead.
The tablet comes with a USB-C port on the left side, and has a single USB-C to USB-C cable in the box.
As a result, you can connect it to Windows, Mac, Android, or ChromOS devices easily without needing an adapter.
But your computer should has a USB-C port with Thunderbolt or DisplayPort Alt Mode.
If your computer is old and doesn’t have, you’ll need separate cables for power, video (HDMI), and data, and then combine them with the Wacom Converter.
Easy installation
Once connected, it’s as simple as downloading and installing the drivers from Wacom official site.
You can then customize the stylus’ two buttons to your ideal specification, adjust the display’s brightness and the pressure sensitivity curve, etc in the Wacom settings.
Drawing Experience
I’m just a hobbyist artist now. I used to do more concept art work but have now switched to drawing more anime art. My main art software is clip studio paint and photoshop cc.
I pretty much liked drawing with Wacom One 14 from the very beginning. It was quite responsive & pleasant to draw stroke with it.
I can do precise work with this. I can do outlines, beautiful outlines. I can paint well. Everything’s just more precise.
I almost never pay much attention to pressure sensitivity. Because beyond a certain level, you don’t need more of it. Think of it in a similar way to mouse DPI, where you only need a certain amount & nothing more.
The main reason for that is the low IAF (initial activation force) it has. Meaning I didn’t need to exert much force with the pen for strokes to appear, even the slightest force produced very thin lines.
Depending on your zoom level, you may not even see them, but they are there. IAF tends to be the first & main criteria I use to judge graphics tablets & pen displays, as it separates the excellent tablets from the “just good” ones.
The drawing surface has a good amount of friction to it whenever I drag the pen. It feels a bit like nylon, and not exactly papery. That friction can help with drawing precisely.
Parallax. We all know that this screen is laminated so parallax doesn’t exist. Wrong. There is parallax, about just as much as there is on a Cintiq.
You can see some distortion near the edges of the screen and more apparent around the corners as a result of the glass and gap. You won’t really notice this most of the time though.
Price
Wacom Cintiqs are known for being pricey. The quality merits the price, but it can be out of many artists’ financial reach.
At $299.99, the price of wacom one 14 is Surprisingly inexpensive considering what’s on offer here, perfect for young artists, beginners and students.
It even gives users access to a bunch of free software trials, like Clip Studio Paint, Magma Blaze, and a three-month subscription to Skillshare so you can continue to level up your skills.
As a comparison, the same size 14-inch XPPEN Artist Pro 14 Gen 2 is priced at $399.99, which cost more $100.
In Conclusion
If you’re ready to upgrade to a display drawing tablet, with art software and don’t want to break the bank, look no further than the Wacom One 14 pen display.
The 14″ screen is plenty large for a variety of creative projects, and has that classic Wacom pen-on-paper feel.
Professionals across creative industries use Wacom pen displays like the Wacom Cintiq – and the Wacom One 14 is the most affordable way to use the same tech they use, in a simplified, pared down device that’s great for beginners.
However, Not quite optimal if you need the most powerful and responsive unit there is.
As you might have noticed, this tablet doesn’t have express keys and there’s no touch response. If you’re used to those functions, you’ll miss them and their workflow improvement.
