Yes, the screen is very smooth, like glass, not paper, and I love it. It seems like it's getting harder to find this as time goes on, but honestly I very much prefer it, as I'm a digital artist before any other kind, and the feel of the pen nib grinding and sanding down and wearing away (on "like paper" screens or tablets) just bothers me and makes me not want to draw big or fast lines.
I think paper feel can be nice if it's a smaller screen, as it helps to give more resistance and control, but I realized with this that there's another way of accomplishing that. Because this screen is so large, and the accuracy is good, you have a lot more space to draw over the same resolution and more "accuracy per pixel", if that makes sense.
In other words, despite a more smooth, nice, glossy surface, you still get your control by essentially having everything more "zoomed in" by default, without zooming in. This means when you do zoom in, you can go even further than a smaller screen could, while still seeing the surrounding area or having more precision, and when you don't zoom in, it's similar to how it would be on smaller tablet zoomed in. It's hard to explain, but you can be more loose and free with your lines, and every tiny movement isn't as big of a deal, it's much more forgiving, so it's accomplishing essentially the same thing as resistance from texture would. (Could be nice if you had jittery/shaky hands too.)
If you wanted the utmost control, I suppose you could find something with both size and texture, but honestly drawing large lines quickly, dragging fast over a large rough area is going to wear the nib down really fast, plus feel to me like nails on chalkboard slightly, so if you're anything like me you'd always be inclined to slow it down or draw in a smaller area, more carefully, less free.
I like to draw large, sweeping, smooth, all in one stroke, flowing lines, rather than a million hairy ones, and I feel this is the perfect balance for that. You can be precise because it's over a large area, but also just swoosh the pen around without feeling like it's grinding against the screen. My only issue so far is there is a tiny bit of parallax, but it's not nearly as much of an issue as I imagined when shopping around. I'd love one with less of that, but now that I've tried this, I would not sacrifice any of the other features for it.
Some said the pixels were too big, but I don't notice it, I like crisp pixels anyway but I don't even see it regardless, maybe it's my vision. If anything, it just means more input accuracy mapped over fewer (larger) pixels like I said, which for drawing (rather than viewing) seems pretty ideal to me (1920×1080 resolution is plenty for this screen size imo, again especially for drawing). Try to imagine the opposite, a tiny screen where you try to draw, but no matter how careful you are, the pen is covering many pixels at once and the slightest movement (even by the texture of it!) would span many more pixels.
In other news, yes you can 100% see your reflection in it when it's off, so do beware if glare is a concern – that being said, other screens seem to just blur the reflection, not stop it, so dealing with your lighting situation properly is your best bet anyway if possible.
All in all, I love it, and words cannot describe how much better I feel with it than screenless graphics tablets. Some say it's not that big of a deal, but I have to wholeheartedly disagree. Trying to explain would just be even more confusing and long than this review has already gotten, though, so I'll leave it at that. Love this thing.
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