• Strong and durable surface for drawing.
• Excellent for color drawing media, such as soft pastels, oil pastels, and crayons.
• In color drawing media, eliminates the “white grain” in the media on a white sheet of paper.
• Creates the illusion of a drawing already being “filled in” from the beginning.
• Very smooth, clean surface.
• Excellent for pens, brush pens, markers, ink, pencil.
• Thicker and sturdier than most paper and won’t warp with ink.
• Terrific for illustration & comics.
• Cheap paper that is easy to buy in large quantities.
• Great for small, quick sketches.
• Works well with pen and pencil.
• 8.5″ x 14″ size is convenient for illustration & character design.
• Has a slight tooth, allowing it to “grip” charcoal dust effectively.
• Creates a beautiful texture in your charcoal drawing.
• Best surface for charcoal drawing.
• Easy to erase into.
• Very inexpensive paper.
• Great choice for life drawing.
• Comes in both smooth and rough.
• Not an archival paper, will eventually yellow over time.
• Huge range of rice papers are available of varying textures, thicknesses, colors, etc.
• Wonderful for relief printmaking and chincollé.
• Highly absorbent to ink and sensitive to relief blocks in printmaking.
• Soft cover allows the sketchbook to bend easily, but is still sturdy enough to let you draw standing up.
• Fits well into a flatbed scanner.
• Also available in sketch paper, mixed media paper, and toned paper.
Drawing from Imagination
Brush Pens in Taiwan
Drawing in Guangzhou China
Urban Scribbles
• Cold Press paper has a rough, textured surface.
• Hot press has a smooth & crisp surface.
• Both types of watercolor paper come in varying thicknesses.
• Neither is “better,” your choice depends on the type of results you want in your watercolor painting as well as your personal preference.
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