Wacom One review: A great, no-frills drawing tablet for budding artists

I'm unique among my colleagues for liking to work in brightly lit rooms with my screen brightness turned fairly high, though.Wacom's moving away from shortcut buttons on its drawing devices, and there aren't any here. I don't like having no control over how best to make the device work in my own space, even if I should be able to trust Wacom's calibration.Fundamentally, the compromises that Wacom made make plenty of sense, both to keep the cost down and not to cannibalize sales of pricier devices. The inability to zoom in and out of the image without breaking his creative stride.Coming from Wacom's professional devices, he said there were plenty of irritating omissions, like the missing eraser tool on the back of the stylus. "The portability is a big plus," he said, even though he'd think twice about using it for professional work -- the lack of shortcut keys would cost him too much time.For $399, Wacom is selling this as a device you could drop money on without having to think about it. That hasn't stopped major artists, like David Hockney, from using the iPad to draw covers worthy of fronting The New Yorker.I'd never heard of XP-Pen before reviewing the Wacom One, but it also makes competitively priced alternatives to the Japanese company's offerings.