I have done a lot of research on drawing tablets. I’ve also owned quite a few. Through all my experience with using and testing them out, my consensus is that the best brand for drawing tablets is, without a doubt, Wacom.

If you ask any professional artist who does their work digitally, they will tell you that their tablet is a Wacom, so if you are going to buy a tablet, get this brand. So the real question should be what type of Wacom to get.

There are two types of drawing tablets.

1. There is the kind where you draw on the tablet and you see the results on your monitor. For this type, the best tablet is the Wacom Intuos4.

2. Then there is the kind where you actually draw on the screen itself. The best for this is the Wacom Cintiq.

The reason that the tablet prices differ is mostly because of:

1. Available drawing area of the tablet.
2. Pressure sensitivity (you want to get at least 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity)
3. The quality of the brand and warranty.

So depending on your budget, here would be my choices from best to worse:

1. Wacom Cintiq 21UX
2. Wacom Cintiq 12WX
3. Wacom Intuos4
4. Wacom Intuos3
5. Bamboo

I thought about it and I don’t think I would get an Intuos2, just because they are so outdated, that I would have to get a used one and it probably wouldn’t work as well as a new Bamboo tablet.