Discover Your Creative Journey · Test first, then draw.

Sketchbooks we bind for daily pages

Our everyday sketchbook is a 9x12 inch spiral pad with 100 sheets of 68 lb (100 gsm) acid-free, pH-neutral paper. It has enough tooth for graphite, charcoal, colored pencil and pastel to grip, and it takes an eraser without going fuzzy. The top spiral flips all the way round, so left-handed and right-handed drawers get the same flat page, and each sheet has a micro-perforated edge for the days a drawing deserves a frame.

Around that pad we built the specialists: a 73 lb coated marker pad you can use on both sides, a 140 lb cold press watercolor pad with 40 sheets, a 98 lb mixed media pad, and smaller 8x10, 8.5x11 and 5.5x8.5 formats. Several come in packs of two, three or four, because a sketchbook that is rationed never gets filled.

Soucolor Sketchbooks

Before you pick

Mostly pencil and charcoal?

Stay with the 68 lb drawing paper. It is made for dry media, erases cleanly and gives you 100 sheets to practice on without counting them.

Planning to use alcohol markers?

Choose the marker paper pad. Its coated 73 lb sheet keeps ink on the surface so both sides stay usable, which ordinary drawing paper cannot promise.

Drawing away from the desk?

The 5.5x8.5 inch two-pack has stiff covers front and back, so you can draw on your knee and drop it in a tote afterward.

The first stroke is only a test

Nothing on a swatch card has to be good. It only has to tell you what the colour does. Pick a pad, pick something to mark it with, and give yourself one row of honest tests before the real drawing begins.