If it was ultra-lowend it presumably had limitations on how you could hold the stylus? I deliberately went for a model allowing tilting because I wanted something that was more natural to use.

I tend to work with bezier splines, so it'll be interesting to compare that to drawing them freehand - I am expecting it to take a bit of practice.

I don't currently find mousing a problem for touching up photos, but I do intend to over-use the tablet for (almost) everything at first to get used to it and see if there's surprises to where it works.

Killjoy

IIRC it did allow tilting (does. I still have it but it's at the office, forgot to take it home), but has pretty low dpi and it is just small, which in a way is an advantage because it doesn't take up much desk space, is easy to carry, and can be traversed in a flick of the wrist which is why it makes an awesome mouse substitute when mapped full screen across spanned displays. My beef with using it for drawing and painting is there's no tactile feedback, you can't smell graphite dust and turpentine, undo is too easy, and you are looking elsewhere. I've done enough of the real thing to find it a pretty lame substitute. I also dislike digital artwork that tries to mimic real media in general.

Doesn't need to be Hollywood!

I will bring you joy in other ways.

(Ones that don't involve misbehaving autofocus... :P)