Sketchbook - Lake Blue - 12x12cm - 140g - 80 Sheets - Hard-Bound - Multipurpose Drawing Paper

This is a sturdy little book that carries well with its rounded corners and wipeable cover. The paper is smooth like Hot Pressed and off white cream coloured. The pages have rounded corners too. It’s stitch bound in signatures and opens completely flat (after the outer lining papers which are glued to the first and last signatures). Ideal for ink without bleed-through, I’ve used fountain pen, fine liner and brush pen happily. Watercolour is a bit marginal -the 140gsm paper holds the water on the surface for a while (no texture and I’m guessing surface sized) and buckles quite easily. Once wet, the paper is very fragile and prone to scuffing if overbrushed. That said, at this size (12x12cm) it’s still useable for line and wash if you don’t go overboard with the water. At the price it’s an ideal book for quick sketches and it can tolerate light watercolour washes, wherever those fit into your practice -even if it’s just to get you into a daily sketching habit. Recommended

It's well-made and great for my doodle art. I love the colour, size and paper thickness/texture. No bleed through for fine lines with Uni/Pigma pens, but a bit of bleed through/shadow with thicker pens/brushes. This doesn't bother me enough to fault it, as it's fine once the other page has been doodled on, but it might to others. Oh & alcohol markers will defo bleed through and be a two-for-one image.

These are my favourite little sketch books, the paper is very smooth and thin but good quality. They work well to use with posca pens with very little bleed through. lots of pages, great for travel to slot in a pocket or a small bag. The cover on mine is still pristine even after being taken on a lot of journeys. It's really good value.

Lovely sketchbook for coloured pencils, fine liners and journalling. In my opinion, it's not suitable for watercolour as the paper warps easily and sometimes shows through to the other side of the paper. Go for 200gsm+ if you're after a watercolour sketchbook. This paper is creamy and not white which I like, gives my pages more depth and it takes polychromos pencils so well. I have only removed a star because I just don't find it suitable for watercolour but the descriptions states it is.

Cute wee book. Quite thick pages, easy to take with me.

Very good quality cream paper,and a compact size,I use it for drawing zentangles which fit perfectly. I have bought 4 of these little sketchbooks.I love them.

Lovely pocket size sketch book. Purchased as a gift and recipient delighted. Paper is good quality

Very nice little sketchbook. The paper is smooth and fairly thick. Sakura pens don't show through. Perfect for daily sketching.

The Royal Talens Art Creation sketchbook comes in a cute small format which I find to be perfect for quick sketching and practicing and it's also easy to fit in any bag. The paper is smooth, not textured, and pretty yellow, meaning it will alter the color of your artwork if you're using more transparent media like watercolor or alcohol markers. The book is mixed media so I tried out different art supplies to test it: Acrylic paint & markers: I find them to work great on the paper and had no issues with them. Watercolor: I tested the watercolor next to a sheet of regular white watercolor paper. In comparison, the colors came out a bit less brilliant but not significantly. The sketchbook paper however warped quite a bit and disintegrated slightly where I used a lot of water. I also found that it dried quicker than the watercolor paper and blending was harder to do. Alcohol marker: The only medium that bled through the pages (as expected). This paper is not my favorite when it comes to working with alcohol ink. Unless you layer a lot/use a lot of ink to saturate the paper, it goes on patchy and is very hard to blend. Also the yellow of the paper shows through a lot (see comparison to white paper on my attached image). Overall I like this sketchbook and think it's worth it. I just wouldn't recommend it if your main art medium is alcohol markers.

Bought this as my new travel sketchbook and absolutely love it! It is small and light, the paper quality is great and the colour of the cover is exactly as specified! Love it

Muy Buena compra, la relación calidad, precio estupenda… Recomendable 100 × 100, yo lo compraría junto con el otro rojo, y tener los dos.

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He usado acrílicos, rotuladores, lápices, de todo. Las páginas no se doblan ni rompen, todo perfecto