Review of Pro Art Drawing and Sketching Paper Value Pack

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These are great for sketches or detailed line work or shading. I haven't been able to find a better value than these four sketch books, the quality of the paper isn't the best, but i still recommend it to anyone who has any doubts on purchasing this

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My husband purchased two of these packs for my use. The sketch books in this pack are conveniently shrink-wrapped together for shipping. My over-all rating for this sketch pack is 4 stars. Even though I am mainly satisfied with these sketch books, I do have a few reservations which keep me from rating the pack 5 stars.

1. Hardbound sketch book. The product description claims this lies flat when open, but it doesn't, especially when you get beyond the first third of the book or so... Mine keeps wanting to close whenever I'm not paying close attention. I find this to be a distinctly unpleasant drawback, even to the point where I've avoided finishing the works I started in one of these books. 3.8 star rating for this item.

2. 9 X 12 Spiral-bound sketch book. This is bound on one long side; I prefer sketch pads that are bound on the short side, and prefer to avoid spiral-bound pads altogether. While this book will lie flat when open, the wire binding gets in my way while working. I make use of this type of book by removing pages to work with... and then, of course I have all those little shreds of paper to deal with as one has with any spiral-bound paper that's not perforated for removal. 3.8 star rating for this item.

3. 9 X 12 Euro-style sketch book. Pages are stapled together in this sketch book, which can be made to lie flat with a bit of back-folding and coaxing. One of two better components in this sketch pack, this book is handy to take along when traveling, but needs some better type of cover to protect the book, in my opinion, because the covers are fairly thin, not much better than heavy cardstock. This book is not suitable for removing sheets to work with outside the book. 4.2 star rating for this item.

All three of the above items contain 70lb paper, which is not the best, but is workable, especially if one is creating rough drafts of projects to be finished on another media.

4. 9 X 12 Drawing pad, tape-bound on one short side. This is the starring item in this pack! The paper contained in this pad is at least a cut above the paper in the other three items of this pack. There are 25 sheets of 90lb paper that can easily be removed from the pad. Since I prefer to work on loose sheets, this is my favorite pad of the bunch. After removing a sheet to work with, the remaining sheets of this pad stay bound until the artist is ready to remove them. The heavier paper featured here is suitable quality for finished drawings with any dry media. 5 stars for this item.

As another reviewer has stated, I haven't been able to find a better value than these four sketch books, despite the fact that I'm not real fond of two out of the three, and have somewhat lukewarm feelings about the third. The 4th pad more than makes up for that. I just wish the tape-bound pad included in this pack were available separately.

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These are nice sketch books. There is a thin spiral one, a thick hard covered book, a spiral one with the spiral on top and not the sides and a thin soft covered one for traveling. Over all I am happy with the purchase, and look forward to drawing in them.

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I purchased this for my son after looking in stores for the same item and the price was just way too much. This item was as described, the shipping was quick and I would most definitely reuse/recommend this seller. :)

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I bought this package for my son who is taking an art class. There was a lot of paper included for this price and it has suited my sons needs very well.