Smooth Surface Drawing

Product Description The Strathmore 400 Series Smooth Surface Drawing Pad contains a medium weight drawing paper perfect for artists of all levels. With a smooth surface and a cream color, this pad offers excellent erasability and a very good rating for pencil, colored pencil, pen, ink, and marker. It's important to choose the right surface texture for each drawing.

Carrie Lewis shares tips for knowing when to choose rough or smooth paper. Bristol generally describes a drawing paper that is pasted to form multi-ply sheets. Bristol sheets provide a stiff, strong surface to work on without the need for mounting.

The term Bristol derives from the early days of European papermaking when mills would send their finest papers to Bristol, England to be pasted together. Bristol papers generally have two types of surfaces: smooth and vellum. Strathmore 400 is one of the most versatile sheets Strathmore offers.

This cream-colored drawing paper with a smooth, non-reflective surface is ideal for line drawing and technical detail work, as well as sketching and finished work. 24 sheets. 80 lb (130 gsm).

Purchase the Strathmore® 400 Series Smooth Surface Drawing Paper Pad at Michaels.com. This spiral-bound pad features versatile sheets of cream colored drawing paper for sketching and most finished work. The Smooth surface, with its non-reflective finish and uniform formation, is especially suited for line drawing and technical work.

Smooth Surface Drawing Paper is suitable for a variety of drawing and sketching techniques such as calligraphy, technical pen and coloured pencil techniques. The paper weights range from 150-220gsm and are available in gummed and spiral pads, sheets and roll. Strathmore 400 Series Smooth Surface Drawing Paper - This versatile paper is ideal for all dry media, and can be used for everything from sketching to finished work.

Check out our low prices on the Strathmore 400 Series Drawing Paper - Smooth Surface. Strathmore offers a diverse selection of papers to meet your artistic needs, providing a reliable foundation for creative expression. Here is a drawing I did on Strathmore 400 Series Bristol Board - Smooth: Brooke by Holly Bedrosian 2.

Strathmore 400 Series Bristol Board - Vellum Slightly more toothy than the smooth bristol paper, this vellum surface beautifully accepts layers of colored pencil. Legion Stonehenge Drawing Paper Stonehenge has a smooth and somewhat soft surface. I use soft leads when I draw on this one.

The surface is smoother than Arches hotpress, and it's much more delicate and gouges easily. You have to work with soft leads and apply several layers of hatching to create very dark blacks on this paper, but it can be.