Prelude
I have
compared 45 different papers for markers. I have not included any papers that
are not specified for markers by the company that produce them. It is not
uncommon that an art store will market a paper as a marker-paper but if you
look at the brands homepage they are not label as a marker paper. But with that
said, a lot of other kinds of paper can work very well with markers, for
example watercolor paper (even though they will “eat” the ink in the marker a
lot faster than any other paper). I also tried some Japanese sumi-e paper with
good and interesting result. I might
write more about that in the future. For now, this is a marker paper review.
The theory and method for thinner marker paper
(70-80 g/m2)
I started
with some small samples to se color saturation and value, bleeding and
feathering.
I am a firm
believer in working the paper as you normally would, to be able to fully
understand the potential the paper has, so I decided to do a drawing on every
paper.
I especially
wanted to test the blending and layering abilities. With blending I mean that I
work wheat in wheat, and with layering I let the ink dry before I put another
layer on top.
Before I
started my drawing I wrote down the name of the brand on the paper. I then
covered the name so I wouldn't se which paper I was working on. I wanted it to
be a blind test.
I have
earlier tried to do the exact same drawing but found that this only works if
you compare two or three of them. When you compare many items (as I have done
earlier; I compared 29 markers, and now I compare a lot of papers) the chances
are huge that the first couples of drawings are a less good than the following
(because you are learning) and the last ones are pretty bad because it get so
monotonous that it is very difficult to do a good job. At least that is true
for me. I therefore chose to draw every drawing different but in the same
manner and use the same subject (in this case, one girl stood model for all
drawings). I also chose to use the same colors for the face and hair on every
drawing.
Monochrome crafts marker 70 g/m2
I am not
sure if this paper still exists on the market, because I could not find much
information about it.
Monochrome Crafts Marker |
The paper
is smooth and white. The front side and the backside of the paper differ; you
cannot use the backside to draw on.
This is one
of the worst, if not THE worst paper of them (70-80 g/m2) all. It
has very bad blending abilities and layering abilities. If you oversaturates a
paper with ink it will create puddles, which goes for all papers (in this
category), but this one created puddles almost immediately. It is also very
grainy, just look at the hair on the drawing! It was very difficult to get
nuances in the colors. The light colors all became lighter than on other papers
and the dark became darker and flat.
Conclusion: this is a very poor paper, maybe the worst
one.
Drawing made on Monochrome paper |
Color samples on Monochrome |
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