I don't think I've ever seen a negative review of the Stillman & Birn sketchbooks, except for the price. The softcovers seem to be relatively new, and the lower price is a plus.
Last night I drew and erased pencils for six tries at a Felix drawing, each time wondering when the surface would be compromised. It still looks perfectly fine. I'll update the review when I try inks and a wash on it, because that's a major plus if it can withstand that much fussing.
(On a side note about damaging paper: I saw a review with someone driving a car over the new Stonehenge paper then putting it through the washing machine and dryer, and it came through fine, and I don't think I can trust a paper that appears to be created through necromancy.)
Do you use both sides of the gamma paper? Getting a few pages into the alpha, I see a difference between the front and back of the sheet that I hadn't noticed yet, since I'd used only one side. The back has a toothier texture, and there's one signature folded so that the first half of its pages has the rougher front. I'm making the assumption that the "front" surface would always be the front in a spiral-bound book....
The (smoother) surface did make it easy to ink the Iusta art! I'll try layered pencils next. On both sides :)
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Date: 2017-03-25 12:58 pm (UTC)Last night I drew and erased pencils for six tries at a Felix drawing, each time wondering when the surface would be compromised. It still looks perfectly fine. I'll update the review when I try inks and a wash on it, because that's a major plus if it can withstand that much fussing.
(On a side note about damaging paper: I saw a review with someone driving a car over the new Stonehenge paper then putting it through the washing machine and dryer, and it came through fine, and I don't think I can trust a paper that appears to be created through necromancy.)
Do you use both sides of the gamma paper? Getting a few pages into the alpha, I see a difference between the front and back of the sheet that I hadn't noticed yet, since I'd used only one side. The back has a toothier texture, and there's one signature folded so that the first half of its pages has the rougher front. I'm making the assumption that the "front" surface would always be the front in a spiral-bound book....
The (smoother) surface did make it easy to ink the Iusta art! I'll try layered pencils next. On both sides :)