Figure / Text: Wen Ze Editor: Blue Pencil [Pencil has something to say] Many of the first problems encountered by many cabbages that have just begun to learn watercolor illustrations are – watercolor papers to be selected? Many watercolor papers have various problems, such as overflowing colors, uneven coloring, and dying. In fact, the choice of watercolor paper is related to your watercolor technique, style and other content. How to choose the most suitable watercolor paper with the highest cost performance? Pencil Jun has collected some reference materials for you, I believe it will be greatly helpful to you! Before picking a watercolor paper, you first need to figure out a few indicators. Otherwise, facing the watercolor paper of each brand, it can only be caught! 1. Material: wood pulp, cotton pulp, cotton and wood mixed 2. Texture: According to the texture generation method, it can be divided into cold pressing and hot pressing. According to the roughness, it can be divided into coarse, medium and fine lines. 3. Grams: In short, the thickness of the paper 4. Other invisible indicators, such as acidity, mildew, etc., this can be temporarily put aside Ps: Talk about the brand The most common in the country is France's Canson, which includes Barbizon, Montvale, Fontenay, and Arches. There are also more Italian Fabriano, Fabriano does not seem to give a separate name to the different series, but there are many series! The British St. Joe's got Waterford and Bockingford, then Lana, and I don't know anything else. Let's talk about the first three indicators below. First, the material Wood pulp paper ã€characteristic】 Surface: It looks whiter and the paper is tough and smooth. Draw it, there are several obvious features: 1. Poor water absorption. After painting, the water will remain on the paper for a while instead of being sucked into the paper immediately. This feature makes it possible to make certain special textures of watercolor on wood pulp paper, such as some color mixing of wet painting, some special effects of water stains, and water marks unique to watercolor. Demonstration (wood pulp is 300g Dreamfarer, cotton pulp is fabriano artist-grade rough grain 200g): Comparison of scrubbing effect: the wood pulp is whiter. Comparison of the effect after drying: Because the wood pulp is slow to dry, it gradually leaves water marks, and the cotton pulp is very soft and even. 2. Smooth. Because wood pulp paper is usually smooth, this property also gives wood pulp paper some features: easy to scrub, slightly poor color rendering, easy color coloring, and uneven color coating (it will collapse at first, but this is also watercolor) One of the charms is not suitable for expressing dark colors, not suitable for thin drawing techniques (that is, drawing multiple layers). Wood pulp paper is usually much cheaper than cotton pulp paper! Demonstration (how to paint uneven Barbizon!): [suitable for painting] Therefore, wood pulp is usually suitable for more freehand watercolor painting, many faint, watery, small fresh watercolors are wood pulp paper. For example, the style of the early court teacher is more suitable for wood pulp. As well as vin.tam, wood pulp paper is best for expressing this romantic water mark. [brand] Among the brands, Kangxi's Barbizon and Monfal are wood pulp paper. Barbizon is famous for "Babi ash, Barbie," and in general, the entry level will be used. However, A Terrier revealed in her "Orange Water Shadow" that she used Barbizon. When I don't believe it, I can only hope to go to it. Lana seems to have only wood pulp paper. Bo is a wood pulp paper. 2. Cotton pulp paper The price of cotton pulp paper is usually expensive and horrible. Half-open cotton pulp paper can buy a cotton T-shirt... Is it necessary to buy cotton pulp paper? This is not necessarily true, but be sure to try at least. ã€characteristic】 Surface: It looks yellow, a bit velvety, feels soft and collapsed, and it doesn't have a crunchy sound, but it's all in awe. Draw it, have these characteristics: 1. Wash water is good. Therefore, the color is not so easy to roll on the paper... It is easy to control the position of the color when the wet painting is mixed, and the color rendering is good. Because the moisture is quickly sucked away, it is not easy to leave water marks. It is especially suitable for drawing multiple layers. When drawing the upper layer, it usually does not stir up the lower layer. How to say it, I feel that the cotton pulp can firmly grasp the pigment particles, and the pigment particles of the wood pulp are hard and floating on the paper. Since the cotton pulp will hold the paint, it is not so easy to wash it off after painting. 2. Rough. When the pen is used, the resistance is large, and it is not easy to slip, haha. Demonstration (this is a fabriano artist's rough lines. The more left on the cotton pulp paper is the excess of the color material, not the trace of water.): This fluffy, color transition seems firmly in the need cotton pulp and paper, wood pulp, it will be estimated on the full big splash - (Author: Myanmar painter Myoe Win Aung) [suitable for painting] Personally, cotton pulp is suitable for realistic watercolor painting. The cotton pulp can carry one layer after another, so if you want, watercolor can be painted like oil painting with realistic light, color and texture. â–² Author: Susan Harrison • • Tusi Tan / New Zealand [brand] Kangxi's Fengdanye and Ashi are all cotton pulp. Most of Fabriano is cotton pulp. Dover is a cotton pulp. â–¼ Get the fine texture of Dofu Second, cotton and wood mixing Cotton and wood mixed, only seen in fabriano, sometimes feel that it has both advantages and is very cute, and sometimes feels no advantage (too split) Rough grain I feel really good, color is super good, draw 涩Oh. However, the middle pattern of the same paragraph is completely different from the rough lines! Not all kinds! Lost. (This looks like no fine lines) â–¼50% cotton thick â–¼50% cotton rough, huge pit Second, the texture 1. Cheap wood pulp paper seems to be medium thick. 2. Each family's rough, medium and fine are different from others. 3. The same style of the middle and the fine may be completely different styles, not to say that the rough lines are big pits, the fine lines are small pits! So I can only try a lot. . 4. (This is an important point!) What is rough, it seems to be only suitable for painting the kind of paintings that are for people to see the real thing (that is, to look at the exhibition, to buy it home), especially large. For printing, the original art pit will be very disaster! So there are very few rough lines for drawing illustration comics! (@bryan supplement: hot pressing refers to ironing the surface of the paper with the same thing as the iron when making paper. The other is cold pressing, pressing the surface with heavy unheated things. In general, the hot pressing is flatter and thinner than the cold pressing. Then, the rough lines are of course suitable for rough landscapes. The landscapes of the still-life figures are not bad, and the fine lines are the most meticulous. However, many people think that the fine lines have no watercolor. ) â–¼fabriano artist fine lines, because the lines are very thin, the water absorption is also poor, even a little wood pulp feeling In the same series, when the pen is dry, it can make a good-looking flying white. The same series of rough lines, painting portraits is too thick The typical rough / coarse grain cotton pulp dry brush sketch of scenery: Jie Dela Green / English Third, grams and other It is the weight per square! Generally speaking, 300g is not used, and it is not easy to wrinkle after painting the paper. 200g will be smashed, otherwise it will be crumpled. The heavier, the more expensive it is... In short, the ideal paper should be “neutral and acid freeâ€, which may cause the pigment to change color. Anti-mildew is also very important. The paper I bought originally made a lot of yellow and mildew after a few years, and the imported ones are very good. To be honest, I don’t think any of the domestic watercolor papers can go on standard production and create a stable and reliable watercolor paper. There is also a layer of glue on the watercolor paper, I don't understand it. There are two points to note about this layer of glue: 1. It is not possible to use hot water for crepe paper. It is said that the layer of hot water will become uneven. 2. This layer of glue seems to sublimate in general, the paper bought is not used for a long time, the glue disappears, and it is like toilet paper. I have encountered this kind of misfortune many times! ! Finally, I can insist on seeing the last one, and it must be true love for watercolor illustrations, haha! I wish you an early success. Information you may be interested in: Take a wave of art and fresh, 2017 watercolor illustration calendar award (with AI source file) Super welfare! 250+ latest high quality PS brush free to take away I heard that they all entered the pit of the travel account! 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