Tea Zombie's Magnificent Sketch Blog

Yeah you read that right, this is the last paper sample of the bunch. Probably won’t be the last time I’m babbling about paper cause I actually like rambling about such things. Also I have a new drawing pad that I haven’t tried before so consider yourself warned.*grin* It’s also practical to have my notes online instead of in some random notebook prone to go missing amongst all the other notebooks around my place.

Anyway, what I got my mitts on here was a sheet of 300gsm Lanaquarelle with a satin finish, hot pressed in other words. It’s one of those papers I just like to feel up like a weirdo as it’s real nice to the touch. Working on it was enjoyable as well, not my favorite with the watercolors but if I couldn’t get my hands on something with a rougher grain I wouldn’t mind using it. It was however really delicious in combo with my markers. I have to conclude that when it comes to heavier stock I prefer fine grained watercolor over marker paper for my Copics. I liked using my softer pencils on this as well, not to mention Inktense didn’t take as much scrubbing to get loose. Neat. Harder pencils worked alright, and inking gave no problems. A likeable paper that.

Why does she have no arm? I don’t know, I guess she lost it… but she still have good music.

Mirrored from The Sketchblog of a Tea Zombie.

It’s paper sample time again. Hahnemühle Bamboo Mixed Media this time around, which weighs 265gms according to my snooping around the net. I must have been tired when I started this and accidentally painted over the info part, hence the writing showing up at the top. Oooops.

I spent a lot of time doing this, had I know that beforehand I’d tightened the sketch up a bit before plunging into it. However I didn’t, and after all I’m doing these to find papers I’d like to work on, not to create fantastic pieces of art, I mean they’re small and full of info from the manufacturers already. I wanted to draw mushrooms in evening again though, so this was a nice excuse. Too much babbling about unimportant stuff, onwards to my notes.

The Bamboo did well with my markers, the result looks good but it’s heavy and sucks up a lot of ink so I won’t be using them together too often. Inking with dip pens was much better than I expected from the rougher texture and I enjoyed it, the microns didn’t look all that smooth though. Watercolors worked excellent on it, ending up nice and smooth and generally yummy nummy. Inktense pencils and blocks needed a lot of scrubbing to get smooth, so next time I think I’ll mix them up with water before hitting the paper. Pencils was neat on it too, I really enjoyed working with the harder ones on it. Neat cause I normally prefer really soft pencils. All in all a good paper, and I’m probably getting more.

Mirrored from The Sketchblog of a Tea Zombie.

Third of the paper samples, a bee lady and her pet snake or snake informant, I don’t know. I really like how she turned out, I think I’m gonna do a bigger and better version of her sometime. Lanaquarelle this time, and as I haven’t cropped away anything of the paper you can find the specifications on top (I sketched too big and it looked odd cropped, so yeah<.<) . This paper was yummy.

Mirrored from The Sketchblog of a Tea Zombie.