Strathmore 300 Series Drawing Paper Pad, Top Wire Bound, 9x12 inches, 50 Sheets (70lb/114g) - Artist Paper for Adults and Students - Charcoal, Colored Pencil, Ink, Pastel, Marker

We bought this drawing pad as part of a bundle of art materials as a present for our Grand Daughter. I also have one of these pads myself and I have found it be a very nice type of drawing paper - with a good weight. The surface is nice to draw and paint on - not too shiny and not too grainy - also not too absorbent - so I would say about right for a wide range of drawing / painting / craft uses. I particularly like the body of this paper which makes it sturdy and not inclined to wrinkle or cockle when wet. The colour is also a good shade of white - not too creamy and not a dead white or a grey - just a very good plain white drawing paper in a good weight and quality.

I use this for all my artwork. Tried other brands, always come back to Strathmore.

Buy it for my 7 year daughter practice drawing. Very great quality paper. Will buy it again. But a little bit expensive.

Very good Sketchbook! My only problem is some of the spirals can come bent which makes it a pain to flip pages but its still worth the buy if you want to do more serious drawings

great for school

The sketchbook is amazing. It is very large, the paper is thick enough to be able to paint on, and there are a lot of pages. My only problem is that when it was shipped, it was shipped with a fold on the corner. This of course probably isn’t the company’s fault but rather Amazon because of their handling.

It is very smooth and good for drawing black and white. Not for colored

It was good but the pages tore off with me doing very little and indented what I drew to the next page. It was also a bit hard to use with colored pencils though I dont know if this paper is made for them.

I was a little disappointed because it’s not spiral-bound so the book won’t lay flat when open binding doesn’t seem like it would last very long but the paper is great

Great quality, has a nice pencil feel for a good price. My only gripe is that it arrived with both unbound corners damaged and the wrapper was ripped leading to water damaged page.