Morning all. Today, I want to revisit my review of the Daycraft Signature sketchbook. During my review, I mentioned the bleeding that happens when you use a fountain pen, but I said that it didn’t bother me. Well, I’ve now been using this notebook as my journal for just over a month, and I can now say that the bleed through is starting to get on my wick. I miss the clear, blank pages that you get with good fountain pen paper. However, I was whinging about this to someone, and they pointed out that the notebook is in fact a sketchbook. It never promised to like fountain pen ink. [As an aside here, I didn't know that "whinging" was a British word, but Microsoft spell-check does not like it!]
So, I thought that I would do some doodling in it and see how it held up to the materials it says it will like. The drawing below was done with a 6B pencil. 2B is actually my favourite grade of pencil, but I need to buy a new one!
The paper is quite smooth, and it doesn’t have the tooth that some sketching papers have. However, the pencil was easily laid down and it’s wonderfully offset by the cream tone of the paper (which you can’t really see in the photo above).
The paper is a pleasure to draw on, and I really enjoyed doing this quick sketch. Never one to be satisfied though, I then decided to do a watercolour doodle on the page.
I drew the initial outline with a PITT Artist pen, which shows through the paper, but doesn’t bleed like fountain pens. The watercolour paints went on the smooth paper really well, and the paper held the water quite well. Now that it’s dried, it is slightly crinkly, but I’m impressed at how it held up.
Some of the colours did spread as I filled the drawing in, which I think means the pigment didn’t absorb into the paper quickly (feel free to correct me here, I’m not a watercolour expert!).
The dried drawing does show through the paper, and there are tiny specks of bleed through. If I was going to use this as a sketchbook, I’d only draw on one side of the paper.
Overall, I am impressed with the Signature’s capabilities as a sketchbook, but I want to use it as a journal and I’m going to continue to do so. I’m just going to have to ignore the bleeding from my fountain pens!
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