The best laptops for drawing and digital art: Find beautiful screens, perfect for artists

Three of the best laptops for drawing on a yellow background
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The best laptops for drawing and digital art come with touchscreens and stylus support. This offer artists a natural drawing experience, but with so many options, finding the right one can be challenging.

To help you out, we've put our experts to work, rigorously evaluating laptops for artists using a combination of benchmark tests and hands-on drawing sessions. To compile this list, we've focused on screen quality, colour accuracy, resolution and responsiveness—all things that will directly impact your drawing experience. 

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Erlingur Einarrson

Erlingur is knee-deep in laptops for most of the day, everyday. After testing over 100 laptops, he is a champion of finding the most powerful tech to do the job for all types of creative workflows – and has personally developed rigorous testing processes specifically for creatives. He loves ASUS machines because of the innovation onboard.

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Erlingur Einarsson

The ASUS ProArt PZ13 is the most compact member of ASUS' newly retooled ProArt family, but it's certainly not the runt of the litter. It's unique and ideal for creatives.

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Paul Hatton

The Microsoft Laptop Studio 2 is a pro laptop with a beautifully engineered design and a stunningly good display. It has a high starting price, though.

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Ian Dean

The Acer Chromebook Spin 514 features a 14-inch touchscreen and a quad-core AMD powered performance. It's a seriously smart 2-in-1 that is great for drawing.

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Ian Dean

The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 is a quality 2-in-1 laptop that feels great to use. Just make sure you pick the right build for you.

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Erlingur Einarsson

If you're looking for lots of power in a fairly lightweight package but don't need top-level graphics grunt, the ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED is ideal.

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Key features

Attributes

Notes

Rating

Price

Premium but justified

★★★★

Design

Elegant and practical

★★★★★

Performance

Strong CPU, limited GPU

★★★★

Battery life

Above average

★★★★

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Ian Evenden

The HP Spectre x360 14 (2024) is a class operator. The OLED screen is responsive and the stylus comes included.

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Key features

Attributes

Notes

Rating

Price

Premium pricing

★★★★

Design

Revolutionary dual-screen setup

★★★★★

Performance

Strong CPU, limited GPU

★★★★

Battery life

Good with 1 screen only

★★★★

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Ian Evenden

"How is it possible not to adore such a mad, brilliant piece of PC engineering? Two OLED screens and a wireless keyboard that can be put together in a way that resembles a traditional laptop, then unfurled into a glorious portable workstation with enough screen space to run multiple apps at once."

Huawei Matebook X Pro

Huawei Matebook X Pro
The Huawei Matebook X Pro is a powerful laptop that will deal with even the most demanding creative software too. It's lightweight, looks gorgeous and the OLED touchscreen is a delight. The only downsides are the lack of ports, the high price, and the fact that all that power might be overkill if you just want a laptop to draw.

Read our 4.5-star review.

Erlingur Einarsson
Tech Reviews Editor

Erlingur is the Tech Reviews Editor on Creative Bloq. Having worked on magazines devoted to Photoshop, films, history, and science for over 15 years, as well as working on Digital Camera World and Top Ten Reviews in more recent times, Erlingur has developed a passion for finding tech that helps people do their job, whatever it may be. He loves putting things to the test and seeing if they're all hyped up to be, to make sure people are getting what they're promised. Still can't get his wifi-only printer to connect to his computer. 

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