The sketchbook I'm currently using is Canson's Art Book One, it's marketed to be used for pencil/graphite, soft pastel, and charcoal. When I've looked for paper for soft pastel, I've found they tend to have some texture, there's finer and more gritty texture (also in a variety of patterns), I tend to prefer the finer. However, I'm not familiar with brands or types of paper, so I can't suggest any specifically. I would advice for you to buy a few different ones, that are small in size, and test the techniques you like to use and see for yourself how it combines with the paper underneath. You can apply fixing spray and put some glassine paper over it after it dries to further protect it. Another suggestion: you could save up the remaining left over "clumps" (for a lack of a better word) in a small bowl or container for future light initial sketching, blending, or surface coverage. You could also have tissue paper/paper towels around to catch the mess (it's in their nature to get everywhere as far as my experience has taught me, so I just do the clean-up after using them). I could explore some options in a future video and share my opinions, perhaps that could be useful. I hope this helped :)
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Hope this video provides some direction,
Time-stamps:
0:00:47 Brainstorm
0:05:55 Sketching Techniques
0:13:12 Goal Setting + Timeline planning
0:20:00 Break
0:24:59 Focus Session
1:00:29 Recap
What sketchbook do you use or recommend for soft pastel? I find they get everywhere and some are hard to stick to paper. Any with good grit?
The sketchbook I'm currently using is Canson's Art Book One, it's marketed to be used for pencil/graphite, soft pastel, and charcoal.
When I've looked for paper for soft pastel, I've found they tend to have some texture, there's finer and more gritty texture (also in a variety of patterns), I tend to prefer the finer. However, I'm not familiar with brands or types of paper, so I can't suggest any specifically. I would advice for you to buy a few different ones, that are small in size, and test the techniques you like to use and see for yourself how it combines with the paper underneath.
You can apply fixing spray and put some glassine paper over it after it dries to further protect it. Another suggestion: you could save up the remaining left over "clumps" (for a lack of a better word) in a small bowl or container for future light initial sketching, blending, or surface coverage. You could also have tissue paper/paper towels around to catch the mess (it's in their nature to get everywhere as far as my experience has taught me, so I just do the clean-up after using them).
I could explore some options in a future video and share my opinions, perhaps that could be useful.
I hope this helped :)