This month, I finally got round to purchasing some Bristol Board, just to see how it compares. Up till now, I've used either straight 80 / 110 gsm copying paper, or 250 gsm smooth off-white card, so I took 1 A3 sheet of Bristol, and prepared to destroy it...
First impressions: very smooth. Lovely to pencil on, and you can erase really easily. So far so good then, so on to Inking...
Tried some dip pens and indian ink - not as impressed as I'd thought I'd be. Just as scratchy, and no real improvement. Brushes next, and yes, about the same. Then on to technical markers. Again, no real improvement, everything about the same. Bring on the brush pens...
Again, no real improvement, but I noticed more smudging, as if the ink was taking longer to dry. On to the LAMY fountain pens...
..And disaster! Smooth to work with, but noodlers absoluetly hates Bristol - it slides like a dog on ice! I was happy enough, until I came to rubbing out the pencils - smudge, smudge, smudge...
Also tried my UNI Signo white gel pen for correction... Got some strange results. Definitely depends on ink drying time being longer on Bristol.
Long and short? Use technical markers or brushes - everything else hit and miss. Makes me wonder if marker paper would be a better alternative...
On a side note, I'm starting to think about reducing my working pens to...
0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7/0.8 Technical Markers - usually Pilot/Faber/Staedtler
Black brush pens - small and large, filled with acrylic ink.
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