Wacom Art Pen (KP701E2)

I indulged myself because of retirement coming, and got this wonderful Art pen. It makes way more use of the brush technology an many axes. That not only applies to the tablet it's self, but the software capabilities. The art pen rotates, tilts, and shades. And much more. If you find it distracting when doing plain old brushstrokes, then just use you other pen for that. But, other than getting a $100 airbrush, this pen is the ultimate in painting experience right now with my Wacom Intuos 4, and Painter/Photoshop. There is limited support in Illustrator, and does work with Elements.The barrel is wider, there is an eraser, and the nibs it came with are both for Intuos4 or one of the Clintique tablets. I'm buying a set of nibs from Wacom specifically for this pen... for backup. I understand nibs wear down fast on Intuos 4 surface.I prefer buying Wacom products from Amazon because of price, and info about product. Unfortunately, Wacom has not made their site user-friendly. Finding stuff is confusing there.I found this on with Prime for less than another one of the same on Amazon. This one had more reviews. If not for reviews, I feel uncomfortable buying.Easy setup, great product! Now my teacher will see better brushstrokes from me.

Absolutely positively love this. I’m a published artist. I use this practically every day with my welcome tablet totally would like to get a new one, but they don’t make them anymore.

Well, it's a Wacom pen, so I'll maybe have a problem with it in 10 years, if I'm unlucky.

This is a pretty neat stylus to have for a more natural digital painting experience. While not important for my workflow, I wanted to have the option of using brush rotation while painting.It feels a bit sturdier to me than the pro pen (not that the pro pen feels flimsy or cheap, but the art pen does seem more solid somehow). Comes with a pen holder and 10 additional nibs (5 of them are like what's installed and the other 5 are chisel tipped).I had some issues at first with the beginning of curved strokes being straight regardless of the direction I was moving the pen. I ended up rolling back the Wacom driver to 6.3.17-3 and that fixed it for me.I'll close by saying that the biggest benefit of the pen is the brush rotation. So if you don't care for it, then you are probably not missing out on much, particularly compared to the pro pen.

Its one of those little things, but the rotation sensitivity is awesome. With properly set up brushes it gives you the freedom to quickly and organically select the angle you want for shaped bush tips in supported apps like Art Rage or Photoshop.It lost 1 star for a couple quibbles. One the rather blunt, bulbous end of the pen makes it hard to see exactly where the tip of the nip is placed on my cintiq. The second is the rubberized barrel of the pen is the same atrocious material used in the older Intuos 4 pens. I fully expect this one also to get literally sticky and disgusting feeling as it ages. My old intos pen feels that kind of sticky-greasy like that of a stove hood in KFC that is in need of a through cleaning... It would have been much, much better if wacom had just used the hard plastic barrel like in the new Pro pen.Also it doesn't have the cool colored rings one can use to tell one pen for another. A very minor quibble, but for this price I expect perfection.

I could not wait to receive my very own Wacom Art Pen to use with my Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet!I had the opportunity to use the pen when I attended the HOW Design Conference in Denver and LOVED it!As a digital artist, graphic and web designer with a foundation in traditional art- this pen provides me the best of both worlds- traditional art and digital art. It allows me to work digitally (within Photoshop CS5) with the same results you can expect from traditional media- watercolor, oil paint, etc... I can mix colors with all kinds of brushes and apply a variety of strokes - taking advantage of the pressure sensitive and tilt/bearing of the pen. It is very natural and requires little to no learning curve to use if you are used to painting traditionally and/or have used another Wacom pen.I just LOVE it and recommend it to anyone working digitally and/or anyone who wishing to use their traditional painting skills in a digital application. I would also be great for students learning painting concepts (with out all the mess of using actual paint). The simulation of the real thing is incredible! Wacom KP701E2 Intuos4 Art Pen with Stand

I'm satisfied with the pen, being able to rotate brush direction when painting is a definite improvement over using the standard Wacom pen; though you would think when buying a Wacom Pro it would be included.My only complaint doesn't involve Amazon or the Wacom Art Pen but delivery via FedEx. I had ordered the pen to be delivered next day which was a Saturday to my office. My office is staffed all day and has a rather large, neon "Open" sign in the window.Following the tracking FedEx tracking there was an update just after noon stating "Customer Not Available or Business Closed". I'm certain this is just a local issue, but this isn't the first, second or third time this has happened and one of the reason we use UPS rather than FedEx for outgoing shipping.I have no way of knowing if the drivers simply can't find a major office complex, aren't getting the correct GPS information for their deliveries or aren't even attempting the deliveries...but it is rather annoying, since they won't reattempt a delivery until Tuesday. I could've saved myself the expedited shipping cost and the package would still have arrived sooner.