It tears (me) apart

It's a really nice size. I could never manage to fill up a whole A4 page, that's why i went with this one. Perfect size for when i feel like making a quick sketch. The pages are of good quality. Smooth. But i don't think you're going to be able to use both sides, the sketches do show through slightly. I use graphite pencils. Not sure about other mediums. The perforations do make framing and gifting your sketches a whole lot easier.

Bom produto

It's a beaut!

海外での作品展の会場で、来場者にサインとメッセージを書いて戴きました。大きさも体裁もぴったり、ミシン目があるので、ユニークで嬉しいメッセージは切り取ってピンナップも出来ます。表紙が厚く、持ち運びもしっかりと安定しています。

I worked in an art supplies shop for nearly ten years, and for a few of them, this was our main brand of sketch book. Before that, we had had a brand that had very nice bindings and looked really nice, but which had what I thought was a slightly boring and too thin and smooth paper – someone’s preferene, of course, but not to everyone’s taste.This one is more how I’d expect a sketching paper to be, not too thin, and with a nice texture and tooth that instantly gives more life to pencil lines and even makes it suitable for a little bit of pastel or charcoal work too for which too smooth papers seldom work that well.Another thing I like about these is the nice and wide spiral binding, allowing for a slight increase in thickness too without making the sketch book look like an accordion. Great if you, like me, enjoy keeping other things in your sketchbook for inspiration, like newspaper clippings, photos, letters and whatever else you might fit in there. I actually made a hole in the front cover of mine and attached a leather strap to it so I could keep it properly closed so nothing could fall out.The binding also allows you to fold the paper all the way around, leaving you with a perfectly flat and very well suported surface to work on, the end covers being very rigid and solid. Good for both writing and drawing.In fact, I started using these to write notes in the shop, keeping them in one convenient place. Being able to easily tear out pages as one has finished with notes also was a great convenience.After using it at work, and liking it so much, this is the kind of book I started using to write down notes for artwork, poetry ideas, and other creative inspirations that I’d be working on later.At the time I ordered this on Amazon, I wasn’t in need of another one for sketching, but I had a book full, and it was time to transfer my creative notes to a new book.