I came to this RENDR Sketchbook quite skeptical…will it bleed through? I haven’t found any decent no-bleed sketchbook papers! When I say I didn’t peek, I mean it – I waited til you saw it. I didn’t want seeing NO color or SOME color to influence how hard I was pushing the paper by putting a lot of color on. I was mighty happily surprised!
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Part of what made me skeptical is that it wasn’t pricey. I thought it couldn’t be very good because it wasn’t a terribly high cost.
Then when I got it, it felt….icky. Like the texture of copier paper, but a little thicker. It IS a little bit grey, but I can get over that if it works otherwise…
Once I got busy with the Copics I realized how nicely they were gliding across the surface. I got no weird effects in the sky, which was what caught me off guard. Filling in large areas is ALWAYS hard with Copics, you get extra pigment when you cross one line over with another, creating glazed areas you didn’t intend. But that sky just ignored when I did that. It was pretty cool!
The photo is from the PMP site – Autumn Scene on the Farm by Suzanne Johnson. PMP is Paint My Photo – a place where people can upload their photos for artists to use. It’s free, but I’ve set up a monthly donation since I draw and paint from photos there a lot!
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Very impressive Sandy!
Wow! That’s impressive….eve if it is a bit gray.
Wow, I’m impressed. And I loved watching you draw and color that pretty scene.
Before you even put it up, WHOA! I have to say I loved the Sharpie coloring. Just watching you speed across the paper with your minimal sketch look was such fun! When you applied the red on the Copic portion I thought ‘acid test’. Great demo! Thanks so much.
I didn’t worry when you played with the pencil or the Sharpie, but when you got to work with your Copics, I was as sceptical as you where. What a surprise, it realy didn’t bleed, wow! I hope you will try more in this book, also with other mediums and let us know if it still won’t bleed.
Thank you so much for experimenting and showing.