Khadi Sketchbook Review - 100% cotton paper 

ohh! u have it too, yay! 😆 if i was strong enough, maybe i could rip the pages out too. mine are glued pretty solidly right now. masking tape doesn’t work? try washi! i used washi tape on it the other day and it was fine. 😊 do u like the paper though?

you’re welcome 🥰 wait… omg i get a medal!!! 😱🤯😆🥳 haha~ and i gotchu! i can definitely post a separate video of real time painting. 👍🏻 i appreciate how polite you are about it too❤️

@@PaintinHiding Aw, shucks! Now you’re going to make me blush ☺️ 😂😂

Wow, you are very kind to have posted the painting video! Thanks so much for being here on RU-vid 😇😇

@@awatercolourist you’re welcome 🥰

@@PaintinHiding😊😊

u know the code! hehe~ thank you donnaaa!! yeah not gonna lie, i filmed more than once since i kept forgetting to say stuff haha~ oh no! if you've had it for a while, i suggest using it asap~ another viewer didn't use theirs for a looong time and the sizing deteriorated. so maybe at least try a page or two so you can know whether you like it or not. :)

u made it til the end! XD thanks miranda! aha! i'm so glad you could confirm. i saw your haul with your khadis and definitely want to get a hardcover one some day. YES please keep us posted! it'll probably take me a long time before i finish mine since i don't paint as often ;P

anyeong chingu! 😁 (or are u nuna? unni? oppa? dongsaeng? either way, banggaweoyo! 👋 😄) aww thank you so much! not gonna lie, i did have to film more than once because the first time, i didn’t get to say all i wanted to say 🤦🏻‍♀️😅

@@PaintinHiding wow!! What a good surprise 😮 can you speak in Korean? If you want, I’m ajumma (old woman, 😂) for me your video was so detailed but why not 2nd episode?? Go on, dear. I support you ✊

@@b.lab.__blab_colors ajumma! i thought you were chingu! mianhaeyo! but not all ajumma are old ;P in my heart you will be unni 😉 forever young 😉😉 and sadly, no i don't speak korean. i really want to though, also wanna go to namdaemun market! i used to have some close korean friends. i used to have a set of gonggi too, my korean friends played and gifted me a set. all the korean i know is from friends and watching tv shows like 아빠! 어디가? and 슈퍼맨이 돌아왔다. mainly short phrases like baegopa, arasseo, mashisseo, igeo eolmaeyo. and i taught myself to read korean so i can read but i dont know what it means. haha. maybe 치즈 햄버거 i can read and understand hahaha~ 2nd episode of khadi paper? ok, noted. other people also requested :)

someone also requested a painting video so i’ll definitely do that👍🏻. hmm mine has sizing for sure but i think your sizing may have deteriorated over time. it might be better for gouache or dry media maybe?

@@PaintinHidingi'm just sitting here giggling because we know how 'aged' my sketchbook is 🤣

@@IridescentJen oh i know 😉😂

Joly Poa here on youtube also has a review or sketchbook flipthrough of 150gsm khadi. hers is the 20x20cm though

@@PaintinHiding thank you! I ended up buying their sheet pack because I didn't like the square size and I wanted way more sheets in my sketchbook 😅

@@E4Alabbasy i understand that. not sure if you've seen but i recently posted a review on khadi log book, and i'm also currently working on a review on the khadi fat book. probably will be up in june or july :)

@@PaintinHiding can't wait fir the review 🥰 yes I checked it out thank you it was very helpful, I initially wanted to get it because I want to practice painting with minimal brush strokes, but it was out of stock for a while until I just went with the sheets 😅

you’re welcome 🥰 im so glad you love the paper too! and your words are so much more accurate than mine. pliable and organic looking granulation! that’s exactly how it is! 😆 i dont think i’ve tried any watercolour paper above 300gsm. 600gsm would be like a board, no? 😅

​Thank you, you are so kind ^_^ Actually yes, it reminded me of a board. It should be very nice paper, just didn't t work for my style I guess ^^

hiiii nicky! welcome to the channel! :D i'm glad you're finding it all useful, that's what i aim to do with my channel. if you see something i have, feel free to ask away. i can't promise to make vids on everything because i only post two vids a week. but i'm always here in the comments to answer questions :D anyway, thank you for watching and commenting!

thank yyou! always happy to learn more everyday :D

ahh yeah i guess since it’s more cloth-like it is softer than regular cotton paper. agreed on granulation 😆👍🏻 my fave would have to be khadi but it’s not cheap for the 210gsm ones. so my second option would be Baohong. it’s affordable enough. and 🤣 do u scrub using watercolour too? or is it for mixed media? any paper pilling?

@@PaintinHiding hahaha by scrubbing I mean lifting off the colour using a hard bristle brush. I find only hard papers like Arches or Baohong take scrubbing/lifting well. I call Baohong the ultimate Arches dupe, but even harder and sturdier. I invest all my money into watercolour paper, this hobby is expensive 😭😭😭.

@@nguyengia1401 oohh i understand now! i dont do a lot of scrub lifting so that wasn’t in my mind at all. 😂. that’s a great way to describe baohong! i agree!

I forgot to say: yes, I love this paper, even with only 150 gsm, it works for me, it's perfect for practicing and scketches, it behaves pretty well and takes water like heaven. Very recommended for sure.

haha! im glad! you’ve always had the same number of pages but now u have more than u initially thought 😆😉🥳

thank you! hope u love painting in yours! :D

@@PaintinHiding Thx for answering! Mine arrived (30 sheets/60 pages😍) and I love how my watercolours swatched. In addition my Kaweco Sport fountain pen with Medium Nib (= good ink flow) writes/draws quite well on the paper. I should add that as you told in your review, I am used to work with'thinner' paper.

you know! awww thank you so much! and you’re very welcome~ i dont think i’ve seen you before Lhesliefea. welcome to the channel! 🥰

aha! thank you so much for confirming, that's brilliant! i take it yours is SMOOTH right? i'm so happy you love the paper too 😆 i don't think i've seen you comment before, welcome to the channel! thank you for watching and commenting Nikki :D

hannahhhh! i got the the log book by the way ;P haha! anywayyyyy.... ok so you have pretty much ALL the khadi books! AMAZING! 😆😆😆 ok, i definitely did NOT know the hardcover ones come with smaller pages, that's very good info. is the softcover and hardcover ones you mentioned, are they both SMOOTH or ROUGH? and thank you so much for confirming the number of sheets/pages. [for anyone reading hannah's comment, her 20 folded sheets = 20 folios, 40 pages = 40 individual sheets, x2 sides = 80 pages --- so hannah is indeed confirming that my suspicious are correct]. waaaitt... u think 150 gsm that khadi labeled as MEDIUM is as rough as their 210gsm ROUGH? 🤯 absolutely amazing info!! you're like the walking khadi encyclopedia :D thank you so much for taking the time to write a lengthy comment. i'm sure many people will find this useful :D awww noooo~ i was looking to get the fat book later 😭 would u say it's the same as the log book? i tried the log book and there's so much paper pilling even as i make simple swatches.😭

@@PaintinHiding Haha, I'm glad I could help! ☺️ And yes, the 15x15 cm 150 gsm books as well as the 20x20 cm version are as rough as the rough 210 gsm paper, but their paper vary some since it's handmade. I have softcover sketchbooks in both smooth and rough and a hardcover one that's smooth, plus a landscape hardcover that's smooth and a large one (30x35 cm or something like it) that's rough, the last one having the most rough surface, but it's very close. I'm really excited to start painting in them for real! 🥰 The Fat Book has pages similar to the 150 gsm ones (though they're thinner), and works beautifully when the sizing is alright, but unfortunately just a few pages were problem free. What happens is that the paper gets blotchy as you paint on it, and the paint seeps through the pages, so I'd avoid it at pretty much all costs. It's unusable for watercolors. Perhaps if you use gesso on it and work with acrylics or something it would work. If someone has ideas I'm all ears! ☺️ Perhaps watercolor ground or something could work, but then you'd have to factor in the cost of that. The log book's pages actually take the paint, though yeah, you can forget doing anything but a very quick swatch and no layers. 🙈 I like that Irit Landgraf compared it to newspaper, because it does feel like the watercolor equivalent of that. Cool that you tried it! ☺️

​@@hannahthufvesson ooooh yeah i saw the landscape hardcover one, that is loooooooong! awwww nooo, so sad the sizing didn't work properly! otherwise i would definitely try it out. can i ask if maybe you bought it and didn't use it after keeping it for a long time? i've heard it can lose its sizing overtime. yeahhhh when irit said it's like newspaper, i honestly couldn't comprehend how that could be possible but it is! XD

@@PaintinHiding It IS loong and it is Marvellous!! Or at least I love it, haha! 😄 Please ask away! And no, I used it immediately because I thought those could be like go-to sketchbooks, you know, since they're cheap and I though they might be awesome, and oh how wrong I was 😬

@@hannahthufvesson i think if i get better at landscapes i'll want to try the long one. it does look unique :D awww, that's sooo sad! i wish the sizing was fine. so sadddddddd!

😂 thanks pablo😊 and thank you for making it to the end ❤️

woohoo!! niiice! i hope u’ll love it as much as i do 😁❤️ (btw, i shall have some time to reply to ur emails later today, yay!)

@@PaintinHiding Yes, I'll let you know how it goes! No worries about email. I've left you dangling often enough while I got dragged around the world by some guy's 🐕‍🦺😅

thank you so much :)

you’re welcome! glad you found it helpful 🥰👍🏻

There's only one fatbook. They don't make the fatbook witth only 40 pages or any other less. The link is correct. The listing is just labelled wrong. Hope that helps :)

soft sizing... hmmm i never thought about that. i guess that could definitely be why. wait, sizing is starch? i thought it's gelatine? i'm so confused (insert confused emoji) regarding stillman, YEAAHH i agree. i'm glad i was able to get the sample pack because i really don't like their papers/textures. i love how stark white alpha and beta are though.

@@PaintinHiding Vegan sizing is plant starch... gelatine is also used. But think about gelatine dessert - it thickens and stiffens, like starch. Both provide a coating to control how fast the water penetrates the paper. Hard sized paper, the water will bead up on the surface. Soft sized paper, it absorbs more easily. Unsized paper just absorbs the paint instantly and doesn't allow for blending.

@@jennw6809 omg that makes so much sense!! now that i can visualise it, i understand it so much better now! XD thank you~!

@@PaintinHiding Of course! I'm glad my obsessive research is benefiting someone LOL. I know you got the St. Cuthberts samples, and that one contained a sample of "Milford," which is very hard sized. I guess you can create snow effects and water effects quite well by sweeping a big wet brush across the surface (it beads up and leaves a pattern of white spots). In the US, Strathmore brand cellulose paper is very common, and I find the 300 and 400 series to be sized very hard as well. (Although it might be more about the cellulose and its absorbency, more than the sizing). Either way, it's very difficult for the paint to soak into the paper. But it gives great color separating effects when using mixes! I actually like Strathmore 200 as practice paper (even though it's only 200 gsm) because it takes the paint more like cotton. Not good for serious wet on wet, but for quick wet on dry sketches it's ok. It's in the 90 lb Visual Journals. I also happen to like the Strathmore Mixed Media visual journals, which are 100% cotton paper, but it's unsized. I had to try it, cause it was cheap and I was curious. And then I was like, oh, I see, you can't blend on it at all, and it does not do wet on wet well. Although it's really nice for other medias. I decided to use it as an art journal and make ugly drawings expressing all my bad feelings, LOL. So I started drawing some ink drawings from my imagination... and then I started painting some of them... and I realized it's very fun to paint on! You can layer instantly, so if you paint in a style where it's ok that you see all the brush strokes, it works great. It's perfect for making very quick & "messy" line and wash illustrations. It got me drawing and painting from my imagination (which is a miracle!) and in a style I never would have done otherwise. I'm nearly finished with my first book, and I bought another one! So what I'm coming to realize is that almost any art supply can be used to wonderful effect if you accept its limitations. So are the Khadi sketchbooks good for watercolor? Well yeah, they are great, if you realize they won't act like western style paper. Hey I forgot to say before, I really appreciated the breakdown of the different kinds of books Khadi makes -- that was SUPER helpful. I've never bought one before, mostly because it's quite confusing how many styles they offer. Not to mention that some are vegan and some not!! Also, it turns out that they are twice as thick as we all thought, so that's REALLY important! Thank you so much for that, I'm sure I will refer back to this the next time I order from Jackson's.

@@jennw6809 and i'm happy to have met you because frankly i dont really have time for research despite sometimes wanting to know. well, i guess technically maybe that makes me not as passionate? or i'm just satisfied with knowing some info to a certain level. lol. YES! i did notice that with the millford! definitely hard-sized. ohh i think i know what you mean with the strathmores. we have some local cellulose paper here too that seems to be sized very hard as well. i definitely prefer hardsized over no sizing at all. awww thank you very much Jenn! :D yeah, it took some time to make the table of the different khadi books but i figured even i'll be referring to it every now again too.

they doooooo?! do u know which one is the one that i have?

@@PaintinHiding I don't, I'm sorry I can't tell on camera! It does say on the packaging if you still have it. Also, I noticed you have the Saunders Waterford samples in this video. One of them is High White and the others are their Natural White. You could compare your Arches to that and see.

@@PaintinHiding I just looked into it and discovered that Arches only makes the Bright White in loose sheets. All the blocks, pads and rolls are Natural White. Also, I don't think I told you but I went to my local art store the other day -- and came home with a sheet of Arches Elephant size paper, 102cm x65cm! I had no idea they had more loose sheets in the back of the store! 🤣

awww!!! 😆👍🏻🥰 thank youuuuu! let’s wait and see how many will get there 😁

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hehe~ thank you for making it to the end!