I was still in doubt and I want to say, that while I persist in my pastel work, I am so confused. It's matching my pastel pencils to the best paper and so far I haven't found it. I did a drawing of a crow with pastel pencils and Pan Pastels on Premiere Sanded paper. It was okay. In fact I like this paper the best and I have and use many. I have an embarrassment of sanded paper. This is the project which I am now working on editing for a YouTube time lapse demo. It was for for the bokeh background but not as good as I wanted for the pencils. What's an artist to do. Everyone I watch swears by Pastelmat and Uart but I find them too rough for my pencils. What should I do? Please scroll down below the crow to read my reponse.
Drawing paper. If I can use Pan Pastels on mat photo paper for tinting why not on drawing paper. Okay. There are many grades of paper. I have decided to start with Derwent's Lightfast Paper. Really expensive. I bought a 7 x 10 inch pad and used it once with colored pencils and it was good. If this works well with pastel pencils it may be my go to paper. I have my Strathmore drawing papers and Artagain papers to experiment with. Well the white drawing paper wasn't thick enough. The Derwent Lightfast was okay. Now I'm going to try several brands of water color paper. Whichever one wins is my go to for pastel pencils. I hope it's a clear winner.
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