is there a diffrence bewteen drawing pads and sketching pads?

Question

whenever i buy a pad to draw on i always get a sketch pad

but i was wondering if there is a diffrence bewteen the paper because its all about the toothyness and thickness of the paper and color but does the drawing and sketching on the front of the book make a diffrence

and i have some tracing paper i bought but i cant think of what to use it for, i traced a few pictures and that helped a little but i wanna get some ideas so i dont just waste it because it was expensive :D

Answer 1

There are differences between drawing pads and sketching pads. Depending on what you are doing will dictate which you will use. If you are just doing gesture drawings, you might go for an inexpensive sketching pad, whereas if you are trying to do something more elaborate, you might want to use something more expensive. It also depends on what media you plan on using. If you plan of following up your pencil drawing with watercolor, you might want to use a watercolor drawing pad, or if you are doing a pen and ink drawing, you might want a pad with a slight tooth. Most pads of paper will be labeled for it's uses.

As for tracing paper, it is excellent for caricatures, or anything that you want to draw. I'm not a very clean drawer. I like to use a lot of thinking lines, and my drawings look very messy. I have to use the eraser a lot, but if I went to heavy with the pencil, there might be a lot of gouges in the paper.

To alleviate this, you can sketch on the tracing paper. After you refine it, flip it over and trace it with graphite. Flip it over again and trace it onto the paper the drawing was intended for. The graphite you used will transfer onto the paper, and acts like a carbon copy. This is handy for if you want to add an element to your drawing, because you can see what it will look like before actually adding it to your drawing, and will prevent you from spoiling it.

There may be more uses, but that is all I know. I hope to learn more from some of the other answerers.

Answer 2

diffrence bewteen drawing pads sketching pads

Answer 3

No difference.

I make dozens of thumbnail sketches of most of my projects, before I settle on a basic layout.

Want to guess what kind of paper I use?

The backs of used copy paper. I generate tons of that stuff making business letters, comps, etc. The back sides aren't doing anything useful, so I put that surface to work, and save a few trees in the process by not wasting it.

Answer 4

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