This time I am reviewing the Huion Kamvas Pro 19, a large pen display I have been using for the past few weeks. It has an 18.4 inch 4K UHD screen, an anti-glare glass surface, 10-point finger touch, two pens, and a Keydial for shortcuts. I will give you my honest opinion, how it works, and the ways I have been using it, including a couple of surprises with AutoCAD and SketchUp.
In the box
It arrived well packed. User guides on top, the tablet underneath and well protected, then the cables: two USB-C, plus a 3-in-1 that combines power, USB, and HDMI into one connection, and a worldwide power adapter. The pen case holds two pens, a standard one and a slimmer one, with replacement nibs and a little hole in the case to make swapping nibs easy. There is also a drawing glove, a cleaning cloth, and the Keydial in its own box with a USB-C cable. Everything, pens and cables included, feels premium.
Build
The body is aluminium and feels solid. At around 2 kg it is sturdy rather than light, so this is not something you toss in a backpack, but it moves easily around a studio or between home and the office. Mine stays in the studio. The back has four screw mounts for an external stand, and the sides have two foldable legs that pop out and hold firm on a desk. Two USB-C ports and a headphone jack on the right, and on top a power button plus a switch to enable or disable multi-touch.
Connecting and the screen
One thing to know: because it is a 4K display, it needs a power supply, you cannot run it on USB-C alone like a small portable tablet. The red-tipped cable is power, the other connects to the laptop. I had the Huion driver installed already and it was detected straight away, and from the software you can shape the pen pressure curve to your style.
The screen is the star. Big, vibrant, and sharp, and the anti-glare surface kills almost all reflections. 4K is over 8 million pixels, so detail is excellent, you can scale down to 2K or full HD but 4K is the one to use. Hold the power button to switch colour modes, sRGB, Adobe RGB, DCI-P3, and more, and adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation. For illustration the colours are true to life and every brushstroke stands out.
Multi-touch enables with the slider by the power button, though it did not work for me the moment I connected my laptop, I had to turn it on in my computer’s settings first. Once on, you interact with your fingers like a touchscreen, and you can switch it off to avoid accidental input while drawing.
The pens and the Keydial
The pressure sensitivity is very precise, light strokes to bold lines, picked up almost instantly, and you can fine-tune the curve in software. It uses PenTech 4.0, which is meant to improve control and sensitivity, this is my first Huion so I cannot compare it to older models myself, but long-time users say it is a clear upgrade. The pens have programmable buttons, which I love, hold one to switch to eraser and release to go back to drawing, another opens brush settings, and you assign them however you like in the driver.
The Keydial is a compact programmable mini keyboard that connects over Bluetooth, made to cut down repetitive actions over long sessions. It shows up in the driver and you customise every key, I use it to zoom, rotate the canvas, scroll, and change brush size without interrupting a drawing.
How I have used it
Mostly in Photoshop, for illustrations, and it is a real pleasure, plenty of drawing space, a comfortable angle for long sessions, gorgeous resolution, and pens that feel great. The surprise was how good it is with AutoCAD and SketchUp once you program the pen buttons and the Keydial. In AutoCAD I mapped my most-used commands to buttons, and in SketchUp, where I am on Push/Pull constantly, I set one button to P and another to the Pen tool, so I move between drawing and modeling without breaking flow. A small thing that genuinely speeds up the work.
Verdict
The Kamvas Pro 19 is a professional-grade pen display that delivers. If you want a tablet for long-term studio use with an immersive drawing experience, this is a strong one. Just go in knowing it is a desk device that needs mains power, not a portable iPad alternative. Let me know what you think, and ask any questions in the comments. You can also find me on Instagram.