Prelude
I have
compared 45 different papers for markers. I have not included 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 the somewhat thicker
marker paper (110-120 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 30 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.
Montana Marker paper |
Montana Marker paper 120 gsm
Montana is
a graffiti oriented company that offers this marker paper. It comes in A4 or A3
sized pads. It is for both alcohol and water based markers.
The back
and front of this paper seems to be the same, you can draw on either side.
The look on
the paper is a bit disturbing. The paper
has a dull surface and is grey to the color. The paper also looks and feels
rather cheap. It has visible lines, which you also can feel. The surface
resists the marker some. It doesn't goes on smoothly. However it isn’t all bad.
The paper takes many layers without any problems. It is easy to get a good
result but the big downside is that colors don´t get as dark as they can be on
other papers.
On my color
samples the colors look much worse than on the sketch I made. However, that can
be because I have not used vibrant color in my sketch. All color samples looked
very grainy, light and milky. Especially my Copic looked very grainy. I would not
recommend this paper for a Copic user.
A good
thing is that the ink does not feather on this paper, even when I saturated the
paper with many layers of ink.
The ink
will bleed through to the next page. The downside of bleeding is however easy
to overcome by putting a paper you don't value underneath.
Conclusion: This paper is not as bad as it looks, except
for a Copic user.
Sketch done on Montan paper |
Color samples on Montana paper |
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