Lenovo Yoga artist review and drawing demo By Michael Clarida Arts

Hey you guys welcome back to drawing with Michael uh, Michael clear to arts, so uh today, I'm going to be doing a short. I always say short: it ends up going really long. Um video review of a product that came into my life through some interesting circumstances- I'm not going to get into that. But the product is the Lenovo yoga book 920. This particular configuration is the i7 processor with the 8550. U processor, I think 2019 2018 2019 is when that processor was being used, pretty predominantly we're up to.

I think 10th generation, um, i5 and i7, and it's going on, I believe in the next uh iteration of the Surface Book or Surface Pro they're going to have uh, possibly 11th generation, but this particular computer has a base configuration 1.8 gigahertz. I think it turboboosts up to 4.5 or 4.3 somewhere around there 256 gigs of ram the display is a 13.9. They marketed it as a 14. So I think it's 14 diagonally. So it's going to be kind of a letterbox.

You know 16.9 aspect ratio, and it's running windows, 10 home awesome. What's really different about the yoga book than other two-in-ones? This is, of course, part of that huge wave of computers that has hit our market in the past four to five years. That really combines the portability of a tablet, and it crams all the high-end processors in there. So it can also have the capability of a really powerful laptop. You guys that have been on my channel before know that I've had numerous devices two-and-ones, and I've been searching, high and low for that one, two and one that will take care of all of my needs and of course you know that is one of those you know far out uh things that you know I fish for, or I shoot for, but a lot of times.

You know you read the feedback, you read a lot of the things, but the practical execution of what I want to do on the machine doesn't always turn out as I had wished, you know I've had Surface Book 2 or not Surface Book. I've had Surface Pro 2 Surface Pro 3 Surface Pro 5 Surface Pro 7. And each generation of that particular machine has gotten better and better. The form factor hasn't changed, and you know I don't know how I feel about that. I think that they could, you know, put a really high definition screen in there, and I've had a Surface Book that had a really high definition screen, and I think I had the 13.3 version of that, and it was a great. All of those machines are wonderful.

Let me iterate to you that in this world of all-in-ones, you know comparing one machine to another when a lot of the internals are the same you're going to get a lot of the same results right so the surface. You know running windows, inc with intrigue. Well, Microsoft pin protocol. Really you know whenever you start getting into like the dell machines, the hp machines and some of those other iterations you're you're running the same software you're running the same hardware and what these like hp and dell does, and even Lenovo for that matter. They put their stamp on it.

You know they want to put their feel of it. You know their shell and yoga or Lenovo's no different. So a while back. I did have the dell 7553 that had the 4k screen, and it had this particular processor in it, and it had, I think, 16 gigs of ram, and you could upgrade it, which was absolutely wonderful. I mean I literally, and that was a 15.5 inch machine. Furthermore, I thought that machine was going to be everything that I needed because it had dedicated graphics.

It had integrated graphics, it had 4k screen, it had 500, you know, plus gigabytes of storage uh. You know it had a 15.5-inch screen. It had the active technology which is supposed to be perfect. The dell active pen and I started drawing on it and what I've come to find out is. Unfortunately, it was missing one of the main things that I needed, which was pressure curve modification software.

I couldn't modify the pressure curve and I started getting into it and drawing with it and starting out having issues with the pen, because the pin was only set at one pressure, and it was blowing out things, and it was just causing an issue and I ended up buying another pen. Of course, why not? You know, spend more money and I bought the Wacom bamboo and I did a review of that and that ended up being actually worse. So this machine um believe it or not. I've done some drawing preliminary drawing on it because I didn't want to get in here. You know whenever I was doing the review and start getting angry, because you guys are so sensitive to frustration and- and you know I'm one- that I want the machine to work as advertised right.

So you know whenever you buy a PC, whether it's a Lenovo yoga, 920 720, whatever it is hp whenever you first start it up. Whenever you first get into the machine, you run into all these little things that you kind of have to modify uh, whether it's updated drivers, whether it's restart, whether it's updates. You know all the software that needs to be updated on these PC machines and that's kind of across the board, and that's what I did in the past 24 hours, I updated everything I moved things around. I set things up, so they wouldn't inhibit my creativity on the machine and I have a little of knowledge when it comes to PCs. I have a lot more knowledge when it comes to max you know, and this machine this particular machine.

Really, I think, is it's so close guys. I can't, even how do I put it, so I started drawing on it right and it, and it came with the Lenovo active pin 2, which is supposed to be the next generation of the Lenovo pen. I don't know if they have a new version. Furthermore, I probably should look on the website and this has 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity. It's got two programmable buttons, and it comes with pressure curve software that you can modify the pressure curve, which is awesome.

It also comes with this little button right here, similar to windows, ink where you can launch things, and you can set up uh preliminary um little actions for the button, and I haven't done that so the yoga I'm not going to get into the unboxing, but you know, as you can see through some of the short video that I've shot, that the machine itself is beautiful. It's its got this bronze color, and they did come with different finishes and the bronze color and the finish is wonderful, I'm not sure if it's aluminum or magnesium, but just through me having the machine over the past couple. You know 24 hours, the casing of it isn't as thick as what you would think, and I've noticed a couple little instances where the metal has been depressed a little. It doesn't hurt the internals, but you know in terms of fit and finish: you pay two thousand dollars for a machine, and you want it to last. You know whenever I had my Surface Book, it was a tank, and it was lightweight.

It was magnesium and to dent that thing you really had to knock the crap out of it this. However, this is really thin. You can see the bronze color, it's real beautiful. You can see it yeah there we go, but what was very interesting about this machine too, is this hinge. This is obviously a design cue that the designers over at Lenovo were like yeah.

You know so-and-so came out with a real killer hinge. We can do the same and that's what that is. This is an exercise and design cues, and you know to give it a better, a higher quality fit and finish. How does it perform so um? I'm going to go through because I didn't. I didn't want this to be a technical review.

You know me this channel, I buy the machine, or I get the machine or somebody sends me a machine, a machine, and I am only the only thing I'm going to do on the machine is draw okay. You know you might say: well, you might watch some videos occasionally yeah, but that's I can do that on my phone. I can do that on my iPad. You know 12.9. I can do that on other machines.

The only reason this machine exists in my life is one function. Drawing. How does she drive? How does it? How does it draw um, so we're going to go through the technical specs? I already did that it's got the i7 with the 8550u um, with eight gigs of ram. So originally you know whenever I started looking around for a machine before this one came to me, I might use one of my main concerns was the ram. So I have a Surface Book, or I'm sorry Surface Pro uh, seven, eight gigs of ram Surface Pro five, four gigs of ram and then and the difference in those machines is massive of.

Of course, the seven is, you know two generations newer. It's got the newer processors, but you know with a couple adjustments. I was able to get the five performing very well, and you know the seven does have its issues with that new graphics card that they put in there. They've had some challenges with the pin function. They've had some challenges with just overall functionality of the machine itself and I caught myself going back to the five over and over again and finally, I tuned the five, and I say tuned because I changed the virtual memory.

I jacked that up, I got rid of some. You know the one drive I know did a couple other things that basically helped the machine perform better, and now it runs photoshop very well and with the um with the Raphael stylus and even uh, the other stylus that I received, and I reviewed on the channel recently um. You know that machine is great, but this machine here, just from drawing on it over the past 24 hours. I posted a picture of what I did. I did a real quick creature warm up, and I did it in photoshop, so uh it performs.

Well, I mean with the 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity with you know the processor with uh the graphics card. It's got an intel, um HD 620, which is an old. I mean that's old, that's that's all the way back to Surface Pro 5 Surface Pro. You know 3 4 eras, uh. I know the iris graphics that I had my that I have my seven.

It's exponentially better, but again you're going to run into some driver issues, but this machine performs very well the only hang up- and this is why I say it's so close to being like the perfect all-in-one um is the pen- and you know you're, saying well, of course it's the pen because it has intrigue, it runs, and it doesn't. This particular machine runs Wacom eyes technology and that technology is supposed to be wonderful. You know it's power, it's got no, no real parallax. It does have a little of lag, but that's whenever you're drawing really fast um. The issue that I'm having is it doesn't have any tilt.

There's no tilt. Oh, my gosh uh, there's no tilt, I mean they've got tilt now all the way back to Surface Pro 3. If you use the pro pen for Microsoft, I'm hoping eventually, maybe the Lenovo yoga you know, pin next iteration of the pen will have tilt. I don't know if it's the machine or if it's the pen itself, I'm I'm thinking it's. Maybe the pen and you know with the eyes technology.

You can't use any of the Microsoft pen protocol pens on here. So the intrigue. This is not intrigue, and you know in terms of storage, you can't expand this computer to have uh more storage, and you cannot expand the memory, unfortunately everything's soldered to the motherboard. So what you get is what you get you don't throw a fit uh. It does have two um.

I forget if these are five they're, not FireWire, it's the USB, but it's um lightning ports. So these are lightning ports on the side, so they're powered, which is really cool. And then it's got your standard. USB I've got a dongle in there right now for my uh, my lb pen, remote um battery life. So far it's been pretty good.

I drew the picture today spent about two and a half hours three hours, and it was right at around 65, and I figured I might get four and a half hours of heavy photoshop use. Um the screen is nice. I mean, I think it's 1920x1080, so it's HD, it's not anything to write home about uh, and it is 14 inches diagonally. So what we're going to do this morning? Just because you know online channel to be different. You know I've seen some other guys that look at it.

They tilt it. They show it they draw a couple lines, and then they make the ultimate judgment. What the machine is? I don't? I don't do that. Furthermore, I actually sit down. Furthermore, I show you how the machine reacts while I'm drawing, and its real environment.

You know I might do some time-lapse just because if the drawing goes a little more involved, then I want you guys to you know have to sit there and watch. You know me draw for two hours uh, but anything that comes up. I will stop the uh the video the time-lapse immediately, and I will start filming exactly what it's doing, what I've noticed so far and this has to do with the pen again. The button is pre-programmed to the eraser and I can go in and say the button's disengaged, but I actually use the button quite a bit whenever I'm drawing as the eraser, but what I've noticed when I'm drawing I'm drawing I'm drawing it'll, it'll turn a little and then my finger will hit that button, and then I'm drawing a line, and it'll skip, and that has to do with me, user here. So let's get into the uh ins and outs artist review of the Lenovo yoga book 920, I hope you enjoy.

So I just wanted to show a really quick comparison between the iPad 12.9 and the Lenovo 920. You can see the Lenovo's a little wider, but the brightness on the iPad is much greater, so okay, so this is the machine in its folded configuration, as you saw from the little shorts that I did, that it's got three positions. One is the laptop position: that's folded like a clamshell and there's that flat position I showed- and this is the position that I utilize it in 95 of the time. I guess you would consider this. The tablet um the tablet position, um, let's go ahead and look around here, so we'll go to what it is, go to the system.

Okay, so you can see it's got.1.99 gigahertz! I don't know if that's the max, but it's got eight processors. So that's pretty cool um. You know my HPC book that I had had the seventh generation i7, so it had seven processors that had 32 gigs of ram where this has eight like. I said one of the things that I've really noticed in this is not so much unfamiliarity. This is very familiar territory now uh.

For me, you know I've been working on Windows machines for quite a while and much to the kind of I don't want to say chagrin, but much to the dismay of my mental capacity um and my patience, you know I grew up in my career, doing uh illustration and artwork on a Mac. So I went all the way from 1997 all the way until basically 2014 2015, whenever I was. Finally, I don't want to say forced to go over to a PC, but I needed something that I could draw on and at the time the um the iPad really wasn't an option, because the pro, I believe came out late, 2014 or 2015, one of the two- and I just didn't- have the kind of money to purchase um. You know an iPad Pro, so that's why I went with a surface device, so we're in photoshop now you're saying oh, is that the latest and greatest version of photoshop? Now and there's a reason for that it doesn't have anything to do with the computer. It has everything to do with photoshop so photoshop.

Unfortunately, it won't even run on my Mac any more um, the latest and greatest version. I don't know, what's uh if it's a graphics card issue, but literally it crashes. The first time whenever I started up this machine, it was having some issues. Saving so there'll be layers and I go to save, and it said, cannot, you know, cannot complete the operation and then, if I would hide all the layers, then I hit save then it saved. So obviously, adobe has some work to do on its premiere lineup, because it's really terrible that I have to deal with that particular issue, um on the latest and greatest version.

So how do I have it set up on this machine? It's kind of similar to how I have it set up on my uh on my surface devices I like to keep my cash tail size right at 128. I like to have maximum levels of cash um uh, because that's kind of how the computer processes the information at once, and it's not really gigantic files. It's just smaller files with a lot of layers, um and uh. It's set at advanced, so I could probably jack it down to normal, and then I keep it right around 79 to 80 percent of the ram. If I do have issues with it, stuttering or anything like that, I'll jack, that ram down, or I'll adjust the virtual ram on it.

So, as you see, the pressure curve is really nice, and since this is Wacom tech, if you do the diagonal, you can see that it's steady as a rock. That's what really differentiates the Wacom from the uh from the intrigue. So look at that diagonal, horizontal, I'm sorry vertical and horizontal, there's no wiggle! I mean that wiggle right there. You can tell that it's not consistent. If you were to do the intrigue, it would go here, and it would be consistent like that you would have bumps um so okay, so today I'm going to be drawing a parrot sort of parrot head.

Hopefully you guys like birds, I'm a huge bird guy. I don't really know why. Let me grab my other glasses, really quick before I get in okay, so I've already been drawing today. So I'm not really in need of a warm-up. But my typical warm-up involves this right here, drawing circles just to get the blood flow, drawing lines right, and you're, not really seeing any breaks, and it's not tapering and doing that weird kind of here, and then it goes like that, or it goes here and then it kind of does that at the end, that's a no Buena whenever it comes to drawing on devices like this, so let's get rid of that.

Okay overall, like I said, I really like the machine- and I've said this more than once. I think I've said it probably 30 times 40 times 40 000 times the machine is just that it is a machine. It is here to assist or inhibit. What do I mean by that? I mean that the machine can stop you from being creative or can help you. The software is the same way see.

I did notice something, and I'm going to point this out. Okay, so I call it the dip in right. It's just my own phrase. The dip end happens whenever I'm drawing I lift to move, and then I go back in it's the dip in. So if you noticed this area right here didn't happen, and I've noticed it a couple of times, so I'll be drawing, and- and I don't I don't know if it has to do with the way I draw user error like that right there see that that so that disappeared.

Okay, so yeah see that just happened again. So if I take my just my hand and I bring my pen away with the way Microsoft has done, their palm rejection it'll register a finger, but it won't draw with your finger unless, of course, I tell it to draw with my finger so what happens? Yeah. It happened again. Look at that! That's fascinating! So I'm sure it's partially my fault that it does certain things, but I think overall it's a pretty decent machine. Like I said, I've been looking guys.

I have been looking uh. That's no good! That's no Buena! Okay! So I need to pull the beak down. Okay, I'm talking to you. I'm not messing my drawing up. Okay! This is really fanned out.

He goes so you're like why? Don't you just wear a glove? Well, the glove screws it up! Um, I do, I wear a glove whenever I'm on my Mac and that's just because you know whatever I'm drawing, and I've got oils and stuff to get on the screen. Eventually, you know you can feel that kind of nasty, so I typically wear a glove and I misplaced my favorite glove recently. So I haven't had my fave, the software inside. You know the machines for Microsoft Windows. It needs to detect your hand if it doesn't detect your hand, then something happens.

It's I don't know if it's it just has to do with. You know the hold on I'm trying to get this just the way it communicates, or it's telling the computer oh his hands resting on there. So now I just need to ignore all the other touches, and we're just going to focus on the pin, but I've worn a pen before and it, and it tends to mess me up quite a bit. So animals hope you guys like drawing animals. Animals are my jam animal jam.

Let me be an is that a game I don't know animal. My daughter, along with my son or both into games just like every other kid these days, I really regulate them, um quite a bit animal crossing, that's what it is, and that was the game that my daughter really wanted for Christmas, but I couldn't find it. I couldn't find it anywhere that be able to ship it in time. You know, so she ended up getting super smash brothers for her handheld device. So what you're seeing, and I'm feeling it- and I don't again- I don't know if it's the way that I'm drawing- I don't know if it's the pen, I can't, I see if it's the pen, then I can't test it against another pin, see I'm seeing breaks little breaks and I went in, and I adjusted the pressure curve earlier and it is seemed to help it quite a bit okay.

So let's go here, and you see in my drawing what I'm doing basically is I'm getting some of those muscle areas worked in to determine where that eye needs to be. That feels pretty good. The pressure curve is perfect. It's uh see I'm fee now. Did you see it a little of a hesitation? So again I don't know if it has to do with the video card.

I'm going to go ahead, and I'm going to, I really hesitate disconnecting the internet, because what happens inadvertently when you disconnect the internet photoshop freaks out yeah see it was just about to freak out, because what it does is it's consistently checking your license. It'll make sure that you have a valid license, which I do I pay for a subscription for the adobe creative cloud. No, I don't like that. You know I'm not not really having any slow down issues that big group of feathers goes up, and it goes like that. Okay.

So then we're going to have this other coming up. Okay, a group of feathers here- and you can hear the buttons of my lb pen remote this little guy right here, I've pre-programmed, the quick keys, yeah see it's doing it see. I can hear it and I don't again: oh you know what it might be. No. I turned that off before it was kind of hanging up slightly with the cloud with the Microsoft cloud app.

So I turned it off because I thought maybe I was having an issue there and for those of you who draw a lot. You guys know what I'm doing right now, I'm I'm doing the road map so um, every drawing that you do or every you know, whatever character, whether it's a creature. You know you have your methodology, uh of what you do yeah. I see it's the palm rejection. It's definitely the palm rejection doing it.

So I'm going to go ahead and file save as okay. Excuse me, my allergies are a little wonky today bird, and we're going to say that to the desktop photoshop, save I'm going to go ahead and make sure that I have okay. I'd set this all up before, but I think ignore touch when I'm using my pen, yes show cursor. Yes, let's go and get rid of that. I think last time I did that.

I didn't like it, but we're going to try it anyway and that's why I didn't like it, because I can't see how big the brush is cast you, okay, anyway, road map. So I was talking about the road map, so the road map of how you do things and how you draw, so it needs to be up down over yeah. It's doing weird things now. Okay, so I had to take a short little moment. There had a phone call okay, so now I'm doing anyway roadmap.

So I talked about roadmap and that's basically, whenever I'm drawing that is, you know where I'm going to put certain elements in terms of the anatomy. You know what's going to make sense in terms of composition, and basically it is a concept sketch, and you know I've noticed many times. You know the older. I get the less and less. I do a lot of concept work just because I kind of already have an idea and when I'm working I'd make those subtle adjustments here, oops sorry about that, I don't know what that was.

Furthermore, I must have hit the wrong button. Oh, that is okay. So the secondary button here is for the brushes okay, um, and you know, even though I might not do as much concepting, it's still necessary. You know you're still working out things. You're still doing you know, you're working on the drawing as you're going yeah see that there's the dip end it's kind of has it.

I would say in that blink right there that has to do with photoshop and then the pressure curve isn't working very well. So let's go ahead and click on that shape, dynamics, yeah, pen pressure, it's right there, minimum diameter, maybe because it's so big, let's try it huge. No, it's not working at all. Look at that! No pressure, it's working in terms of hard soft pressure, but it's not tapering yeah, see. If I don't turn this off, it's solid.

If I were to turn this off and on yeah see something like I said before little quirks like that, make me not want to use this machine. You know, I think it's good, but is it the best? No, so far the best machine I've owned is going to be the book. This e-book uses the Wacom tech, you know it's, it's got yeah see, there's the dip in it, it ignored the pin input and that might be a driver issue. I remember later earlier today I updated the Wacom driver, and maybe it needs you know possibly another update, I'm not sure anyway. The z book that I have was the best, and you're like well how'd.

You get rid of it. Well, you know. I said this before I started looking at it, and I'm like gosh, I spent so much money on it. I don't really use it as much. Furthermore, I was using my surface device because the z book was heavy.

Oh man, it was heavy, and it was it would take a while for it to start up, and I just should have stuck with it. You know I really should have stuck with it. I really regret yeah, you see even with a huge brush you can see, and this is a pig. This is a pretty decent document. So let's do image size, a 13 by 10 and 300 dpi with a textured brush.

You know, that's that's pretty good. I mean I don't really see a huge amount of latency. There is just a hint of latency there, so I'm working out the feathers here. What I'm going to do? I've got a color band that comes here. Then it goes in to that little crease.

It's its the palm rejection. Definitely it's the palm rejection and on my z book I could turn it off. I had it the pre-programmed, little keys, the quick keys over on the right and the left. They are pre-programmed, and you just hit one of them, and it turned the touch off because it knew it's like windows touches garbage. It is the windows, the algorithm they use for the windows touch, although improved, I will give it that overall for art, it just is terrible.

It's garbage! In my opinion, you know. Although surface, does it pretty good? I have to, I have to admit surface, does a pretty good, pretty big, I'm good? Okay. So what I'm gonna now he's got this underneath the skin that is exposed, so we're going to go ahead and do these whoops? Okay, save it's really quick to save too. This is the full version of photoshop. This is not a dubbed down version um, you know again, I have a subscription with the adobe creative cloud, so I get the privilege of working with their wonderful products, tongue in cheek tongue in cheek tongue in cheek right for those of you who know yeah.

They don't always work the best. That's why you know I talked to a buddy of mine. He um he's also a freelancer freelance artist, and he's like yeah. I picked one version of photoshop and I stuck with it, he's like. I think I'm like one of the ancient versions version, 18 or 19, and he said it works great for me.

Furthermore, I'm, like man you're, not like an early adopter and stuff he's like new Hui, Hui, Hui se?ores early adopter nope. Furthermore, I think I might, I mean this is the version that is pretty stable. So this is the Lenovo yoga 920 great overall, but just like every other, all in one PC. It's got its quirks and those are the quirks that you have to remember and live with. If you're, okay, living with those quirks, then by all means, oops buy one, I forget what this one.

I really don't know what this one cost be honest with you, I'm sure you can get them used for six or seven hundred dollars. Again, this isn't the latest and greatest. This is, I think, 2019 2019. yeah, he's a handsome guy. Look at how handsome he is he's.

Like hey, hey, hey, hey! What are you doing? I'm going to jack that brush up huge. Let's see if we can break it, not bad, it's a 1200, pixel brush and then it again it did something weird at the end. Did you see it see if it does it again, nope some other brushes? I have on my Surface Pro um five like that one it is chugs and chews. It's like! Oh, please, don't do that to me. If you have the opportunity to get an oops, a higher ram configuration, I'm sure that would probably help you know.

Ram is one of those things where you can never have enough of it. It's kind of it's designed in such a way. You know to have the multiple cores and- and you know, with the heat sinks, and if your processor is doing the majority of your load, then it's you're going to notice it now on the new Mac machines. I don't know they're doing something wild. You know I mean I've seen video of some lower end machines.

The latest m1 that has the lowest configuration right up there with the big boys, of course, when you start severely tasking it and multitasking it, it fails miserably. But overall it's a perfect machine, but we're not talking about max today we're talking about this machine whoops and I think you know for what it is being an all-in-one. It's not going to compare to some of those really high-end specialty machines. You know, like your z book, I mean your z book was designed specifically for creative professionals to do a specific task. I'm not really happy.

Oh, there we go, and it did it pretty. Well, I mean I'm sure if I had the later version, the eighth generation that it would have worked out really well, then I probably would have been happier with it. So what I'm going to do, just because I'm sure the majority you care less about me talking you want to watch me, use this machine, I'm going to put it on time-lapse! I'm going to move on to the next level, go ahead and jack that down a little there we go. I'm gonna, I'm going to go ahead on to the next level, which is finalizing the sketch and moving on to the final. It's got a nice yellow belly right here, nice look at how handsome he is look at him all right! You guys enjoy the sketch okay.

So what you're seeing right now is. I actually had to stop drawing for just a moment and go to the Lenovo pressure curve, app that they have included with the machine and, as you see, I put it to its maximum sensitivity, which is kind of odd, because it just didn't work out at all. So then I set it down a little lower, and then I went back in and started messing around with it. Obviously every program is going to be different. Every person is going to have a different preference, and you know I end up going back to the complete default settings before the drawing was completely done and also probably depends on the brush see I keep going back to it because I keep feeling it, and it's just not right there.

I want to default um. You know you got to remember this, isn't Wacom EMR technology, it's eyes, so the digitizer and the palm rejection software is consistently working against you, and you see I have a glove on that actually kind of bit me in the bum. A little later, as I was working, I had something on the glove that kept smearing onto the screen, and that was a real. You know kind of a hassle. You know, I could definitely see why this machine came to me because it's got its caveats whenever it comes to drawing- and you know I appreciate it, but also it is a frustration.

Sometimes, whenever you have a machine designed specifically for drawing- and it just doesn't work out that way, so as you see I'll, keep going back I'll, take the glove off and at the end of the day, because every single time I kept putting my hand down it, would put a mark on the drawing. So I ended up turning touch completely off and there was a there's actually a separate issue that happens later on that you'll see as well. So I'll get back to the drawing samurai sword on my back. You don't know how to act. Maybe you should relax.

Maybe you should read labs. Just kidding. Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop food! Oh! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Six times! Do so so so so! Wow, wow, oh, oh bye, oh yeah, yeah boom, so so do ah do so so so wow, foreign crazy, so bye, so okay. So that was the video demonstration review for the yoga book 920. Do I think it's a good machine for drawing, I think, overall, it's a good machine? I think that uh, just like with any you know, windows, machine or any kind of two-in-one you're going to give up certain things to obtain that portability and that form factor that we're all looking for uh.

As far as digital artists, I have searched high and low for that one machine that really covers and can fill in those spots. In my you know in my drawing uh repertoire that you know, does everything it's fast. It's reliable has good battery life, the screen's really good storage, the price isn't too high. You know you can find one of these um. You know in the marketplace whether it's returned or even possibly a new old stock for about a thousand bucks um.

Furthermore, you can find them cheaper. Furthermore, you can find them more expensive, but for a thousand dollars you know. What's in that price range, I did show the iPad 12.9, which brand new that one's probably about twelve hundred to thirteen hundred dollars- and you know that's with the pen- that's at the storage uh spot that you want. You know around 128 to 256 gigs, and you know as you've seen on other channels. You're going to see that that one mitigating factor um that kind of inhibits you from investing in that iPad Pro which is going to be it runs the uh apple iOS, and it's not a full operating system.

So you can't run full apps now. Are there great apps on the iPad sure? But whenever I'm sitting down- and I want to do professional work, or I want to sit down- and I want to have a myriad of brushes and I can install fonts, and I'm sure you can do all that in the iPad um, but the best, in my opinion, the best iPad app that's out there for drawing is going to be procreated and procreate is a fantastic app. I use it. It's wonderful. I just think right now at this particular point in time as it pertains to Lenovo the Lenovo yoga book.

This particular machine is a pretty good option for drawing the stylus, as you heard later on in the video started, giving me some little hiccups here and there, and I don't think it's so much the machine's fault, it's kind of a combination of things. You know you have the user, that's the way they draw the way they put their hands on the screen. Then also, you know photoshop having some issues and also the operating system having some issues whenever it comes down to it. You're investing in an ecosystem and the underlying hardware is going to be the same on a lot of these machines. So if you decide it depends on if your branded loyal depends on what your experience is, there's a lot of things.

That's why? Whenever you hear a reviewer say, do I recommend this? Well, it just depends. It depends on a lot of things, there's a lot of variables and factors that really go into decision-making when buying a two and one, and that is completely true. I know you guys visit my channel for drawing and that's one of the reasons why I did such a long review of this. I went through the video and I edited it and tried to get it down as much as I could, but there's certain information that I look for as an artist and look for as a digital artist that I really needed to know. I looked high and low for a digital review of the Lenovo 920 yoga book and most of the time it was the reviewer opening it up and unboxing and all the seriousness that is unboxing, and then they would get, and they would draw a few lines and uh.

You know a few characters or whatever and- and it didn't really show the ins and outs of how the machine worked and that's why I wanted to show that in the beginning of the video and then for those of you that, like to watch a nice drawing uh time-lapse, I did that at the end, um gosh, there's so many things that I think this machine is good at. There are so many things that I think this machine is bad at there. There are so many things that I think that as a user, I need as an individual and an artist that sometimes again it's hard for me to find that in all in one machine. That's why I have like three four machines, and I understand that a lot of people can't do that. You know this particular machine again came to me in such a way that I didn't have to fork out.

You know money for it and that's a huge uh, a huge factor if I had researched this product. If I had sat down and looked at and watched some videos, and even if somebody had done a video like mine, that really showed the ins and outs, then at the end of the day I would have determined no, I would have not purchased this machine. It doesn't have a SD card slot, it doesn't have expansion capability, the eyes technology is not the best whenever it comes to drawing the know when I was reading some because I did research after there are some reviews. That said, basically the eyes and the palm rejection on Lenovo is terrible. So if I had read that I'd have been like no, I'm not going to spend a thousand dollars, because again I want my machines.

You know I've said this in earlier videos. I want my seams to last three to four to five years and that's a big deal for me. So I don't know if this video helps anyone. Hopefully you enjoyed the painting of the parrot, which I loved, and it turned out perfect. I'm not poo-pooing this machine to the point where you shouldn't give it.

You know a possible nod or an option. It's fast, it's reliable the battery life's pretty good. You just have to look at it as an individual artist, and sometimes you know you have to give up a few things whenever it comes to these two-in-ones. I think in the next, like three years, the two and ones are going to be superfast, they're going to be awesome. The pin technology is going to come to the point where it's going to blow your mind.

I think we're like three years off from a two-in-one revolution, which is gonna, be awesome or evolution no revolution, but evolution, and whenever that time comes you're going to see so many reviews that are going to be gosh. It's great. It's like a know. Furthermore, it's like a muscle car error from the 60s and 70s all over again we're in the competition and everybody's trying to get your business and when that time comes, I think that it's going to be hard to pick a perfect one. The evolution has already started in the tabletop uh displays with your humans and your uh, your XP pen and your Wacom, and, and you know, people or companies are chasing down that Wacom quality curve and interface and all that other stuff.

So maybe that'll happen with the two and ones and gosh if, if Apple were to ever create a two-in-one other than their iPad, which I don't think that's going to happen that had the Apple Pencil technology and the capability in the iOS to run full apps, not just iPad apps man that would blow this they'd probably charge a billion dollars for it. So hopefully you guys uh didn't you know, leave because I'm so long-winded, but I want again I want my channel to be different. I don't want to just draw a couple lines in circles and do the little wiggle line test. I want you to see the machine in its real world working capability. It's superfast in photoshop uh.

It was superfast in some other programs. I used that I didn't do a demo because I wanted to have continuity. Maybe I'll do a demo in brush right, maybe I'll do a demo in clip studio paint. Those are going to be similar in terms of just uh. I think capability on the machine.

Um you know, brush doesn't even use the uh processing power it. It uses the ram, so the pixel are not the pixel, but the polygon count is limited by the amount of ram you have so done. I think I could do some really high-res sculpts on here. Probably not we'll see, I think that uh, you know that might be a video for another day. So thank you guys for visiting the channel.

Hopefully you got something today and definitely look click. The link. I want you to lick the subscribe button, just kidding click the subscribe button and uh give me a thumbs up if you like it and definitely there are more videos on the channel and other reviews that you can see. Thank you guys and have a happy new year bye. You.

Source : Michael Clarida Arts