Huion sent me (@formyths) their Kamvas 13 tablet in exchange for a review, so here’s my thoughts after using it for about a month (link to the illustration I made with it).

disclaimers

• I agreed to this mostly because I wanted a backup to my ipad for work :’)
• I’ve been using my ipad almost exclusively for the past ~3 years, and my other tablet experiences were a Wacom Intuos before that and a few months on a Cintiq for a job a while ago - the ipad/ apple pencil is maybe an unfair comparison so I tried to keep that in mind
• I’m working off of an older Macbook Pro, primarily with Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop

TLDR

• decently wide range of features (again unfortunately I have really no comparison as to what’s “standard” vs the ipad right now), somewhat finicky calibration, does what it’s supposed to do
• nothing blew me away but also nothing was a dealbreaker, solidly okay

detailed impressions

• the tablet itself is pretty lightweight which I appreciate since I was frequently moving it on & off my desk
• comes with a separate stand that’s easily adjustable for different angles - the tablet rests on a small ledge that unfolds, and once or twice I did accidentally close it and almost knock the tablet off when moving it so look out for that
• you can use it in screen-off mode to mimic a regular drawing tablet, which is a nice option if you want to swap out and give your arm a rest
• mine came with a screen protector installed and I liked the matte-ish surface
• usually can run off of just power from your laptop (uses a 3-in-1 cable that’s usb-c to hdmi + usbi 3.0 + additional usb for charging if needed)
• also supposedly can just run on an optional usb-c to usb-c cable that I would’ve like to try out (especially on my 2-port Macbook), but didn’t have the right cable so couldn’t test it
• driver was straightforward to install (though they do mention to make sure to remove any wacom drivers), didn’t have any issues (on macOS 10.15)
• has a bunch of shortcut buttons that I mostly didn’t use because I have an external keyboard, but otherwise seem pretty standard / easy to configure (I did set one to cycle through display focus)
• the on-tablet menu is kind of annoying to navigate the first few times, as it disappears after a few moments which is not enough time for me to read the manual and figure out what each button does
• however there are a lot of settings for display / color adjustment - other than some brightness tweaks, I ended up not really touching the color adjustments because I do final edits on my (color-calibrated) laptop screen anyway, but do note that even though colors didn’t seem too off otherwise if you use f.lux the tablet was always much, much redder than my laptop screen lol