I'm not a professional artist or anything but I'm pretty good with traditional sketching and inking. I've been planning to start a graphic novel and after a couple months of toying with the idea realized that the traditional medium won't cut it for me.

I'm planning on buying a XP-Pen tablet and am very confused. I'm split between the new XP-Pen Star G640S pen tablet and the XP-Pen Artist 12 pen display. I have a HP Pavilion laptop with 15.6 display. I used to have a drawing tablet before (old wacom bamboo tablet) and I found myself struggling to draw, while looking at the computer screen.Does anyone else have the same problem or is it a matter of practice?

With xp-pen Artist 12 drawing monitor ( https://www.xp-pen.com/goods/show/id/380.html ) , I can simply just draw on the tablet screen, but I still don't know whether it is worth buying something 6 times more than Star G640S ( https://www.xp-pen.com/goods/show/id/371.html ) ? Anyone have an experience on these tablets and is able to share with me?

Please guide me

I'm afraid that xp-pen is one of the brands we see most problems with. They have an awful track record when it comes to drivers. If you're on a budget, my advice would be: go with Huion. Huion is responsive, helpful, have donated hardware to our project to test with. If you can afford it, go with Wacom. Wacom has had some wobbly patches with drivers as well, but the quality of the hardware is good, and usually everything works.

That said, drawing on a screen isn't the same thing as drawing on paper at all. Not even if you've got a screen tablet. And it is a matter of getting used to it, to learn to draw with a tablet detached from the screen. It can be quite helpful even, because you can put the screen perfectly vertical, have the tablet on your desk and draw without the distortion of looking at your image at an angle.