I was playing around with a scrap of illustration board today. It was a sample piece I'd received when I was trying to decide if I wanted large pieces of it or not. The texture, especially in portraits, that can be achieved in different paper supports is quite interesting.I have used mostly Bristol smooth for portraits and sometimes Stonehenge paper, both of which I like a lot for graphite portraiture, each for their own individuality. I am using a 22 x 30 illustration board for a current drawing and liked mostly how its slightly rough texture worked for me. Its quite a forgiving support and takes erasure quite well which I was surprised by. I somehow felt that it would be more fragile.
So I played with this little doodle on the fragment of illustration board that was my original sample, using the circulism technique and it does work well for skin texture on this. I think I'll be buying more illustration board in the future.
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Interesting; I'll have to try that sometime.
I've never tried it. Does it dent if you press hard with the pencil?
It has got a nice texture to it Dave. New supports are always worth experimenting with.
I don't press very hard Jeanne, so I can't really say. But it does seem pretty resiliant.
It's really difficult to get illustration board over here - even in graphic stores.
I hadn't used it before except for the sample here but am now working my larger drawing with it and quite like it. It really is quite sturdy and forgiving.
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