XP-Pen Artist 12 3rd

C Creative Bloq Article · Oct 2025

For its size and class, the Artist 12 (3rd Gen) performs beyond expectations. The laminated screen eliminates parallax nicely, and strokes appear cleanly aligned under the nib. Line tracking is consistent, and pressure response remains stable across the active area.

She praises its portable size, perfect color sync, and the super-responsive performance from the 16K pressure levels. Ykha's favorite feature is the X-Dial, which she uses for quick, effortless adjustments to brush strokes and canvas view. Watch as Ykha shows how the right tools enable her to create her signature bold and joyful art.

Go beyond the specs and see the unboxing experience for the revolutionary New Dial Shortcut Drawing Display.

Featuring the new X4 Smart Chip Stylus with 16,384 levels of pressure sensitivity, this tablet delivers incredibly natural strokes with only 2g activation force — perfect for digital painting, animation, and sketching on the go.

Unboxing therapy on Artist 12 3rd. Hear that satisfying peel? Sound on for some pure, relaxing ASMR.

This tablet is pretty small from what I'm seeing, making it very portable. You can literally bring it anywhere with you. Very slim, very sleek. Why? Why am I feeling up on it like that, freak? It also has this dial thing going on. Very fun to run your fingers on. Okay. Okay. You can you can stop now. You can stop now. It is very nice. Small and petite 11.9 in screen.

See how the New Dial Shortcut Portable Drawing Display redefines what a perfect on-the-go gear is.

I was able to try out XPPen’s Artist 12 3rd tablet! I am very honored to be able to try out their tablet, thank you so much XPPen!

The biggest advantage of the XP-Pen Artist 12 3rd is what you get for the money.

Come on by and spend some time with me as I review this great product from XPPen. They are having a sale on their site for Black Friday 2025 beginning on Nov 20th.

Pretty decent tablet, pretty decent. Like hopefully it's a compatible with my MacBook, which is what I plan to use. We have I think I'm probably going to be mainly using this one. Let's see what the pen is about. It got weight to it. I think it's just heavier than my pen for my Samsung. We have two buttons, main buttons. And then the little nib.

And the coolest thing about this table here are these rotatable knobs on the side. You can configure what this button will do, but I think they 're quite useful. We also have the cables here. There are cables that you can connect directly to your computer or laptop, but it also has a wall plug . And then there's this other cable that goes directly from one input to the other.

I just love how nicely the tablet sits on the stand. And it's kind of got like a rubber thing on it, so the screen doesn't move at all.

Oh, it's so nice and slim. You will notice that the this is very what would you say? It's very not shiny. Okay? So So the the item itself is 328 mm or 12 and 3/4 No, just over 12 and 3/4 in and this way it is 190 mm and it's so ever so slim. It's coming in 11 to 12 mm depending on there's little rubber feet on the bottom of it.

I love how everything including the accessories are pink, my fave color ( ܸ ⩌⩊⩌ ܸ )