/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

ipad pro

>>4985231
low iq post

>>4985231
high iq post

>>4985231
sorry, trad chad only so no

>>4985224
for drawing moleskine is the best. if you go watercolor maybe fabriano heavy but moleskine is still good in that area

>>4985231
cringe

Strathmore Windpower. It’s good paper and it’s good for da earf

>>4985231
based

>>4985231
Raised and bedpilled

>>4985235
>>4985240
The symmetrical bell-shaped curve of the duality of Man.

For pure sketching with a pencil, any paper really. Different papers work better for different materials - so if you use alcohol markers, you are going to want bleedproof paper while watercolor needs heavier stock.

I've found calligraphy forums generally know their shit when it comes to paper and seek guidance there.

>>4985224

buying 500 sheets of manila paper and getting it bound

>>4985224
The Rhodia notebooks are similar and much better for ink, as are the Leuchtturm1917. They're just smoother paper and don't bleed as much, but I still buy the Moleskine's if I'm traveling and need another sketchbook because they're in every airport in the U.S. I carry a sketchbook pretty much everywhere I go but at home I prefer Hammermill "Color Copy Cover" paper - the 100lb is pretty much the same as drawing on bristol, but you can get a whole ream of 8.5x11 for fairly cheap. Great for pencil, great for ink, easy to run through a printer if want to print a digital sketch and ink over it with a lightbox etc.

This

>>4985231
Based seethe poorcucks seethe

>>4985279
Ooh la la

>>4985279
Flip detected

>>4985307
seethe talentlets seethe

I just use stock A4 paper

>>4985224
>Costs 3x as much per page square inch than other brands
>Not even spiral bound

Any?

>>4985224
Moleskine is awful. Extraordinarily overpriced, and as mentioned above not even spiral bound. It's just a 'fashionable' sketchbook. You'd be better off with any other brand

>>4985306
the best sketchbook for a fair price

>>4985224
Royal
Langnickel
5.5 x 8.5
220 pages
hard cover
it's like a blank book you can doodle in
i'm in Louisiana and i bought mine for 5$
mine is medium but i tend to make small doodles.

>No spiral sketchbooks

>>4985395
https://www.dickblick.com/brands/royal-langnickel/

I might be retarded but neither amazon or dickblicks sell these sketchbooks. Where should I look for them?

>>4985224
the one that costs less

a clipboard with paper you stole from a random printer.

>>4985224
Strathmore serie 400

Whats a decent toned sketchbook that will give me a decent number of pages while also not being expensive as fuck?

scribe

>>4985224
>killing these little guys en masse just for a sketchpad
That's pretty cruel man, I'll stick to digital thanks.

cottonwood is ok

stolen print paper

>not making your own sketchbook
Ngmi

>>4985224
buy loose sheets of paper and got them clamped at the store

>>4985525
digital usage requires tonnes of energy and requires a tonne of wattage to power your silly computer and drawing tablet.
you're wasting more fuel and resources keeping it running instead of using up the millions of paper lying around.

>>4985698

Im unironically planning on doing this.

Moleskin went to shit around 2011 or so when some Chinese company bought them out and cheapened on the materials. I have all my old ones from before then and got two fairly recently... paper quality is fucking awful now and overpriced for what you get.

$5 bricks of 400 A4 Sheets from target

Newsprint

>>4985438
GMI

>>4985224
Rhodia.

>>4985353
Sweet summer child. You just don’t appreciate that this was the notebook of Picasso and Hemingway!

>>4985306
nice, rough or smooth?

vlippu uses a moleskine, if it's good enough for him it's good enough for any of you FUCKING faggots. wish i could bash each and every one of you to death then paint in my moleskine with your blood. god i hate artists and this "community"

>>4985398
I'm left handed and spiral notebooks are my bane. I actually hate them, and yet I use only them because I haven't found this brand any other way. ; v; Though I am taking notes from this thread ehehh

>>4985515

Strathmore has toned tans and toned grays

>>4986344
Just turn it upside down

>>4986406
Turn it landscape if you’re a real muthafukkin G

>>4985761
I don't think I’ve ever liked moleskine paper in the hardcover sketchbooks - cahier is ok for throwaway warmups and the sketch albums came in decent landscape sizes but they really don't hold a candle to stillman & birn or as >>4985285 said with rhodia and heavier hammermill. Also agree that the higher grades of strathmore like their mixed media books are nice.

Mixed results with cottonwood - their experimental sizes are fun to play around with but overall they're damn overpriced for what you're getting.

>>4986415
Quite

>>4986310
chill out

>>4986142
Yes.
But actualy no.
Moleskine as a brand, was created in 1997. So it has nothing to do with Hemingway and Picasso. Yes, they used similar types of notebook, but it would have been hard for them to actually use that brand, despite what the marketing wants you to believe.

>>4985224
Whatever paper is in my printer

>>4986587
My life has lost all meaning.

>>4985224

>>4986965

t.chad

>>4985224
muji, square grid.

>>4985727
>the millions of paper lying around.

>implying people turn their computers off when they aren't using them
>implying paper just appears out of nowhere
>implying it doesn't require far, far more fuel to harvest wood, make it into paper, and distribute it than it does to simply convert fuel into energy in the form of electricity
>implying cutting down trees doesn't reduce conversion of CO2 into O2 while increasing CO2 emissions
>implying fossil fuels are the only method of generating electricity

This was a really stupid angle to take, you didn't think this through at all.

>>4985406
oh! i'm sorry i thought i mentioned that i bought it at wallmart

>>4985515
just buy office print paper papper a hole puncher and a binder with metal rings

>>4987396
>asks where to get a toned notebook
>"hurrr durr brinter baperrrrr?????"
If you think fucking printer paper is a suitable replacement for TONED PAPER then I hope to god you die soon and don't breed before then. You are a fucking moron of the highest calibur and I feel sorry for the shitsack who had to push you out of her vaginal canal and raise you for god knows how many unbearable years.

are there any decent watercolor sketchbooks? I wondered about doing my own but all papers are good to use on only one side, and that's messy for sketchbook binding

>>4987433
ngmi

>>4987439
I've seen multiple good reviews for khadi and pentalic as 100% cotton paper watercolor sketchbooks, but I'm not sure how true it is for the latter these days as I haven't seen it advertised as 100% in a while now. Personally I've only used global art materials watercolor sketchbooks and while I'm not wild about it them, they're decent for the price and if you're not doing heavy wet on wet work.

>>4986992
you missed the part where i said that there is a tonne of leftover paper already lying around the place, retard.

>>4986144
smooth but still has a paper feel with thick pages.
i can't remember but i think it pilled with watercolor. markers worked fine though. one of my favorite high school doodle pads was in the 8 ish inch size.

>>4985224
My foreskin

>>4986990
>muji
holy based
>square grid
I like the dotted grid more

>>4985224
I use a Leuchtturm softbound and a Canva hardbound. Just get what you can get on sale. These brands are not necessarily cheaper than Moleskine.

>>4988157
Meant canson

>>4987433
>not just printing full grey/beige pages

>>4988148
nice

>>4985224
cheapest block of a4 paper i can afford

>>4986418
I’ve got a rhodia book and it’s pretty great for sketching, for sure. I like strathmore for toned paper and canson’s mixed media books but I tend to go on the cheap end with sketchbooks and grab whatever’s on sale that’s of a decent quality. I’m just forever salty that moleskine’s quality tanked hard because it used to be pretty great and decently priced.

>>4987439
>>4985306
nonironically this

>>4987433
WTF is tinned paper?

>>4989131
please kill yourself you ESL fuck

>>4985224
>not making your own sketchbook

>>4988302

>>4987433
Okay, I laughed hard enough at your overreaction that I'll bite. We were always told to buy a ream of https://shop.kellypaper.com/i/astroparche-cvr-sand-065-2338m-85-x11/1412 for our toned studies in the dynamic drawing classes I've taken, so that's really the cheapest way to get a lot of toned paper at a decent weight minus binding. Otherwise as the other anons have mentioned, strathmore toned paper's fine and so're the spiral bound cachet earthbound sketchbooks.

>>4988302
>not spilling your coffee on the printer to have a plausible reason for taking away all the freshly toned paper

>>4989166
w-what does ESL mean?
anyways lo sintenio, but why are you so angry?
i medatate every day for 20 seconds for world pice. what ezactly are you doing? people don't change thire belifes becuse of an argumentation After all.

>>4985224

They're so tiny, though. I got one thet was only about 5" by 8". And expensive, too.

>>4985698
I did, I even drew marbling on the end papers

>>4990016
with the thread dieing and op not responding
i assume my dislexic victory
you have fed my narssism and made my day yesterday

U MAN BRO?

Sketches are just for practice

I cant seem to find any colored paper sketch books like vid related related. https://youtu.be/Ra7V7OoW81c?t=24

>>4993368
https://www.dickblick.com/products/shizen-faux-leather-journal/

Either most of you are incapable of googling or you really don't look that hard.

>>4993663
Thank you sirs.