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Fabriano makes the best papers for coloured pencils! Accademia 200gsm and Artistico Hot pressed extra white, are my 2 favorites! They also make sketchbooks with hard binding or spiral, that have 160gsm paper, 100% designed for colour pencil drawing!!!
I use Strathmore 400 series smooth bristol and I find the texture is like velvet. It’s smooth, but has just enough tooth to allow a few layers. I can get nice details and use an eraser to pull up highlights. I don’t have much luck with the vellum texture, I find it hard to detail and blend and I can’t pull up highlights like I can with the smooth surface.
6:28 Pastelmat and actually any regular K1000 or 1200 hardware store sandpaper are brutally awesome for drawing vibrant colorful paintings. As you explained these change color pencil to totally different medium where layering in any combination in any sequence is a dream. They eat up your pencils, sure, but the lush colors at the end are gorgeous. so, you'd better use a knife to shape a long head and use the side of the pencil head to color larger areas, this way you will always have pin sharp tip even edge. These require significantly different drawing and coloring techniques. You should dedicate a full video on drawing painting color pencil on Pastelmat or K1000 grit sandpapers. Your artwork and videos are awesome.
The colour pencil illustrator Yvonne Gilbert revealed that her paper of choice were china clay coated print papers, in particular Popset Weave by Wiggins and Teape. Unfortunately their parent company ArjoWiggins is at present in administration and has sold off all their assets. The main source for china clay coated papers is now China. She does do monochrome work with coloured pencils on canson coloured papers with marker pens on top. Her watercolours, so she says, are done on finely sanded ultra thin plywood. I assume she used an acrylic gesso as a watercolour gesso wouldn't have been around at the time. The illustrator Giovanni Casselli also did most of his museum pieces in gouache on finely sanded birchwood. Yvonne Gilbert's favourite pencils were Schwann Stabilo, Caran d'Ache and Prismacolor. Although before the internet it was very difficult to know exactly what you wanted let alone buy it.
That's really cool, I'm sure all of those make for really unique artwork! The internet has been a godsend to so many aspects of life, especially RU-vid in my opinion.
I personally like Faber-Castell Polychromos oil-based colored pencils on Strathmore Bristol Vellum paper. It took me a very long time to discover how well these two work together. I think it comes down to what the artist prefers for themselves.
Another fabulous video Jessica. This is a very good topic to cover as there are so many different types of paper/ paper brands and lots of mediums to use. It’s really important to use the right paper for what you are trying to achieve & which medium you are using. Thank you for this video - it’s really interesting to see which brands you recommend and like using - lots are the same as mine but I also use some different papers as well! 😊💕
This is an outstanding video! It's now clearer to me that furry creatures would probably do better on vellum, but how about botanical florals? In watercolour, flowers need a lot of patient layering, and from the little I know, in coloured pencils too. Some tooth is certainly good, and it feels good to draw on slightly toothy paper. I just tried coloured pencils on Fluid 100 Hot Press, and I'm not keen: the pencils seem to glide over the paper. Though maybe some people like that feeling. Plus, Fluid 100 isn't a paper I'm ecstatic about even for watercolouring, frankly. In any case, if you have any advice on best paper for botanical flowers (for coloured pencils), I'd be very grateful.
Thank you so much for watching my video and sharing your thoughts! I would use fabriano artistico hot pressed watercolor paper, or strathmore colored pencil paper for flowers. And definitely use solvent to blend the colors into the texture of the paper.
Thank you sooooo much for this wonderful very informative video because I was looking for a video that tells about the best paper for colored pencils without using solvents , do you use solvent and any sketchbook recommendations for colored pencils. I don't use solvent. Please reply , God bless and lots of love from India. HAPPY NEW YEAR. 😊
@@jessicamatheneyfineart It is a paper that admits a large number of layers of color without saturating, for me the best is the only downside would be that it is not the best to use the art scalpel and it would be necessary to use a porcelain scalpel
Technically you can use whatever paper you like for colored pencils, if you like a certain paper type, use it. The sketch paper types are a thinner paper and lower in quality than others, which is why it is marketed for sketching.
Mam actually I am a junior artist from India and I had some 200gsm brustro paper,I use it for shading pencils but can it be used for wax coloured pencil
I don't see any drawing papers videos recommendation mentionning or trying Saunders Waterford paper, did you try it ? I see drawholic using it with just colors pencil
I've never even heard of it or drawholic (I don't venture out of my corner much on any social media), so haven't tried it. I try to stick with papers that are readily available and affordable for my audience. Maybe one day I'll try it if it isn't expensive.
Hi Jessica, I've purchased Strathmore 400 series Drawing paper which states heavyweight, even though its medium paper it's more textured than the 80lb. Would this be appropriate for coloured pencil adult colouring, to print pictures on? I don't want paper that's going to eat away my pencils.
Haha really, stick figures? bet your drawing is better than that. Learning to draw takes a critical eye, you've gotta be able to spot the differences between what you drew and the real object.
