My Definitive Paper Preparation Video
Added 2019-10-31 12:15:36 +0000 UTCIt's here! This video has all of the info you will need to stretch your paper over a panel and tone it with ink.
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I suppose that it must have some effect- though I have only ever experienced a minimal difference.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2023-07-21 08:58:30 +0000 UTCHello, question about not stretching but paper texture. Does the environment affect the paper? I dont use stonehenge paper, but some cheap bristol and i have noticed, after some time it gets literally the same texture as i see on your tutorials and i get similar line quality to yours.
Lewosz Kamil Artwork
2023-07-20 18:51:05 +0000 UTCHello Stephen. I have a question about paper thickness. Though you’ve mentioned numerous times about texture (rough, smooth, hot press, cold press), what importance does the weight of the paper (thickness of paper) play, especially in regards to ease of value application? I ask this because of a recent experience last weeek using Staedler black pencils on an 80 lbs (I would say a bit thinner) grey Strathmore paper, and perhaps I was really layering the black pencil on just a lot, but it (the paper) felt like it just couldn’t take anymore. By contrast, earlier, using the same pencils on a 160lbs paper was a much better experience. Is this due then to the paper thickness, or perhaps that my value application technique just needs more work? Lastly, on this subject of paper thickness, theoretically speaking, how would photocopy or thin printer paper hold up, if you tried to do a refined portrait drawing on it? (Not to say that one would want to, but just in theory) Would the paper “give way” at some point after heavy layers of values? Maybe then cheap copy paper then is only suited for line work, or simple sketches (not that I normally draw on photocopy paper, but just as an example). So, if you could just briefly comment on advantages/disadvantages of thin vs thicker paper for long form drawings. Thanks, Daniel
Daniel Morris
2022-11-25 14:07:47 +0000 UTC
