Strathmore Colored Pencil Drawing Paper | Review and Testing
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- čas přidán 10. 02. 2021
- In this Strathmore colored pencil drawing paper review, and testing I talk about pros and cons to drawing with colored pencils on the colored pencil drawing paper from testing it myself for this review so I can offer my honest opinion about this kind of drawing paper. And what I can say is that I really love this paper! I tested this paper on a couple of colored pencil drawings to get a good feel for how well it works for colored pencils and graphite, since I use the medium drawing paper regularly.
I feel like this paper has been very great for beginning colored pencil drawings, as it is very affordable and holds lots of layers, and I really like that this paper is white and a little heavier than Strathmore’s medium drawing paper.
I am not sponsored by Strathmore for this video, this is just an honest review about my thoughts on this paper for colored pencil and graphite (pencil) drawings.
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Another fabulous, in depth review, Jessica! I love your video editing too - all the shots compliment your video beautifully and your work looks absolutely stunning! 🥰💓
Thank you so much!!
New subscriber you’re the best I’ve seen with a colored pencil really looking forward to more videos!
I definitely found someone who deserves my spare money for patreon. Thank you so much for this. Your so talented
Wow, thank you!
just watched several of your videos, and wow it is so informative and helpful. thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this review, I was having trouble getting good blending on this paper before. But I am willing to give it another try :)
You are so welcome! It really works best with solvent for blending. :D
dude, thank you. this was so informative 💓
Glad it was helpful!
Just found you! Great review- you have a new subscriber : ) Can't wait to check out your other tutorials. I am a painter who is finding out how different colored pencils are from paint! It's fun but my drawings are mehh. I'm in the US and had to order zest-it from the UK- maybe that will help with blending.
Thank you just purchased this haven’t used it yet so your video was a great help
You’re welcome. 😄
Thank you for such an informative vid. I am an absolute beginner in coloured pencils and I am trying to absorb all I can about this medium.
Glad it was helpful!
I love this paper! I just wish they had even bigger sketchbooks for my larger commissions.
I agree, they really need to add more larger sizes!
Girl, thank so much you for sharing
the review. Great presentation and
one of the Best.
P.S.: Tell your parents, please.
Thank you so much for watching!
These kind of videos can be very helpful, and in this case are helpful. I have to buy my supplies online and then it's hard to decide if the paper will suit my needs or not.
That's great, glad to be helpful to you. 😀
Excellent
ur so underrated...u deserve more...😄
Awe, thank you!
This sounds rather good, is the texture the same as mixed media paper?
As far as I know, mixed media is a vellum surface, colored pencil is a medium surface.
I have a question for you.
How “Strathmore Colored Pencil”
paper, if possible, would work with
“Faber Castell Pitt Pastel” pencils?
Thank you so much for sharing.
The colored pencil paper will not work with faber-castell pitt pastels, these are soft pastels and are a powder chalk medium. You need heavily fine textured paper to hold the medium to the paper, or it will just fall off. So use pastel paper for pastels, cheap pastel paper will work, but it isn't the best option available. The best paper for soft pastel is pastelmat or sanded paper, but they are both expensive. You can check out my supplies list for links to the paper and other supplies I recommend for soft pastel here: jessicamatheney.weebly.com/supply-lists.html
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Thank you so much for answering
and adding the link.
I really appreciate your work.
My problem with this paper is not the blending but layering. After a few layers it's getting to look less smooth and there are wax clumps building up on my sheet.
But I loove your drawings. They're stunning.
That sucks! And thanks, I personally believe that this kind of paper works best with oil based pencils and with solvent blending, not that you can't get great results with using wax and burnish blending, but you do have to change around a few application methods.
Is the Strathmore 400
For colored pencils like polychromos and prismacolor, what paper do you think is better? This one or the bristol vellum?
It all depends on which method you use to blend your colored pencils. If you blend using solvent it doesn't matter which paper you choose. Polychromos and prismacolor's are two different kinds of colored pencils, polychromos are oil based, and prismacolor are wax based. If you are using an oil based colored pencil and not using solvent to blend with, then you want a smoother paper like bristol vellum.
@@jessicamatheneyfineart I’m a beginner and I have tried drawing a flower on smooth paper using faber castell polychromos but I found it hard to do enough layers. I’d like to try this paper but can you use it with polychromos too?
I love this paper!!!!!!!❤️
It's pretty great!
Can I use Bristol paper??
If yes then smooth or vellum?
Yes you can use Bristol, the vellum surface is going to be better for colored pencils.
Which is better for colored pencils? Vellum or colored pencil paper?
It depends on what you're drawing. Furry animals are better on vellum, most other things that need a lot of layers to get colors right, you would want colored pencil paper.
I don't like any texture on paper for coloured pencil, so not sure I'd like this. I usually use Strathmore smooth Bristol board for my coloured pencil, I have a couple of pads of Strathmore velum, but they are languishing in a drawer unused, as I just could get on with them.
Imma start saving my money this time
WOOOW ! UwU ! thats some good paper ! well too bad i don't get that in here ! thanks for the vid ! love and support from India !
Sorry you aren’t able to get this kind of paper there in India. What sorts of options for drawing paper do have available there?
@@jessicamatheneyfineart We have mixmedia , which i mostly use but it's expensive lol
@@bharadwajsai5382 Is it the Strathmore mixed media or is there a different brand entirely you use?
@@jessicamatheneyfineart different brand entirely
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Just bought a small 6”x8” pad of this paper, the front and back is identical on my pad, go figure.
That sucks, so what you mean is both sides are textured?
@Jessica Matheney Fine Art Both sides seem identical to me.
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Too thin for me it makes me frustrated
Blends great but I cant get the layers I want. Their bristol paper I loveeee
What is it about the paper being thin that frustrates you?
I own the exact same booklet of this exact same paper; even the exact same dimensions. And I despise it.
I have never, in my life, worked with a single type of paper that seems to resent being colored in as intensely as these wretched sheets do. It is working against my efforts with such persistent, perpetual recalcitrance that I part of me wonders if the paper has gained sentience and is intentionally sabotaging my endeavors with the same levels of toxic contempt that I have for myself. I work with Prismacolors, and even after *SIX* layers, the loathsome paper sneers at me with more white spots than the portraits in a high school yearbook, each despicable speck a scornful tormentor that mocks and laughs at me for my failure to color it in. The paper is not responsive whatsoever with trying to blend layers using sticks and tortillons, and even the mighty white colored pencil cannot prevail. I could burnish this paper with a steamroller, and it would still look like someone sneezed salt all over it. I speak no hyperbole when I say I've gotten better results with Crayola colored pencils and bog standard 8.5'x11' printer paper, and even they were more artist friendly that these torturous planes.
What about solvents, like the tried and true Gamsol? Nope, those don't work either! The only two results I can get are washes riddled with streaks from the brush, or a blotchy, uneven slop that takes on the porous texture of the paper, and instead of white spots, it's spots the color of the pencil, which cannot be rectified even with another coat of graphite and solvent.
I am perfectly willing and ready to admit that I'm just an incorrigibly mediocre hack that can't do anything right. You have accomplished the Holy Grail of artistry; photo realism. I can barely tell your drawing from the reference pictures. How you can mold the paper to your whims as though you were administering an intimate touch to the skin of your soul mate baffles and consternates me like a chimpanzee attempting to understand calculus, and the gorgeous marvels you craft with love and unbridled talent fill me with woe and cause my very soul to lament my interminable inferiority.
Please, I just want to make something beautiful, without flaw; not forge failure after failure that only further tempts me to do what was done in the best drawing I ever made. (Which still doesn't look as good as your work.)
not to brag but I've got a pretty mean set of crayola crayons
😂 Crayola actually isn’t too bad, thanks for the laugh.
It is the worse paper for prisma colored pencils. They are in front of me now. Maximum took 3 layers and when u blend them, u see the trash of pencils coming out of the page