Review on 📝 Strathmore 400 Series Heavyweight Drawing Pad: Medium-Surface, 14x17, Wire-Bound - Enhance Your Art with 24 High-Quality Sheets by Kristen Simpson

I got this notebook a few weeks ago and it's officially my favorite surface for drawing with colored pencils! I've tried Strathmore 300-500 Bristol paper on both vellum and plain paper and most have either too many or too few teeth for my liking. I currently use mainly Faber-Castell colored pencils and appreciate a bit of bite in my papers, but not so much that it seems like the paper is gnawing at my pencils. I like both 300 series drawing paper and regular 400 series drawing paper, but heavy papers seem to work better for solvent/mixed liquid use. I even spilled some unscented mineral spirits on the piece and it dried with no wrinkles or issues. I had no problem erasing and creating highly detailed work on this paper, I was even able to (neatly) use an X-Acto knife to scrape off some of the color imperfections without cutting the paper! I also like the slightly off-white color as it shows a little better where you applied the white pencil. Below I've attached a colored pencil drawing I recently completed on this paper. The paper handled all the fine details well and withstood the few tries I had to make to get some of the textures right! This is a great paper, I will definitely be buying more, most likely in a larger format.