Strathmore (25-508 STR-025-508 100 Sheet Sketch Pad, 8.875 by 11′, 8.5’x11′, White

I wanted to get this for my daughter who is an aspiring artist and she loves keeping all of her artwork in one place. This is great!

I added these sketchbooks into our homeschool this year. Each kid has one that will last for the whole year, and they do a drawing assignment each day.

The paper quality has been great for them to draw and sketch on. However, i do not think that sketchbook will hold up for the whole school year. The back is sturdy with a thick cardboard piece on it, but just from turning the pages each day, they are starting to tear out. For those that are more careful with the books or for those who tear out their sketches, this is not a problem. It’s really a minor issue, and overall, we are pleased with these sketchbooks.

Love these for adults and kids

Sturdy easily movable pages with spiral hinge.

Good sketch book for the price

This is a nice basic sketch pad. Good paper thickness. Easy to tear the pages out. I recommend it.

For a beginner with art.

Oil paint artist, just tried the strathmore canvas paper. Great for oil painting, i’m currentley working
on my art at this time useing this canvas paper. I like the texture @ the way that it excepts the oil paint medium. Will order more in the future.
Now here’s what i did before i started, i cut to size then attached it to a foam core borad
with spary on gule airsol can. Let dry for 2 hour’s ready to paint. Will post picture win finished.

Sturdy and lots of pages. My daughter loves to sketch with these books

I liked that the sheets were very thick and the price was good. This was for my child’s classroom for the year. It’s durable and doesn’t fall apart.

I understand that the paper is not mixed media but it is very thin. Whenever you even write it goes through to the other side. The quality is understandable for the price.

Just what i expected

Packaging could have been better. The book was bent in the mail. I was able to straighten it out by placing heavy books on it over night. This is a nice gift!

Strathmore sells good products. They aren’t cheap, but quality is there. If you want sheer, this might not be the way to go. This paper is more translucent than transparent.

I purchased the sketchbook for my granddaughter and she is having many enjoyable hours drawing with the book.

Affordable, but the glue at the top is weak and breaks. Pages become disconnected…

It’s a present for my grandson, i’m sure it will get good use.

I absolutely love strathmore sketchbooks. Their paper is next level. And they have all types for all artists. I wasn’t expecting my typical 400 series awesome paper. It said that is was 200 series which they determine ‘good’ and i do like the paper. I got it from their strathmore store here on amazon because i’m crash coursing it as a beginner artist who found art to be the most therapeutic way to spend my time with a lifelong progressively degenerative genetic chronic illness that has caused me to be in bed almost all the time. The thing is, i do my art stuff (even painting which is rarer than i’d like) on my bed. The reason i didn’t give this paper 5 stars is because the large spiral causes my pages to slide around if i move and then it folds and creases my hard work (which makes sense for a thinner paper). Lastly my gel pens and ballpoint pens leave deep divets and even bleed through at times. In this case i can rarely use the other side of the page greatly minimizing the massive amount of pages i was expecting from this sketchbook. It has a ton of pages so that’s not a huge deal and man was it cheap. I paid very little for aa lot of decent drawing paper that’s good for swatching and sketching before final drawings, taking note and measurements and scrap drawing paper. I hate the spiral bound crazy amount of sliding around it does. The crevasses from my pens and the bleed through. So now i know to just spend the money for the better series and to have a bound sketchbook instead of the giant spiral.
Overall, decent paper, extremely affordable so we’ll worth buying. Definitely will not hold up to any sort.of wet medium. This is drawing paper only.
Hope this helps some of you! And happy arting. You’re getting better every time that pencil hits the paper!

As advertised

Only use pencil and charcoal, it sinks through paper!