This sketchbook is made my Leda Art Supply. I started it January 21st, 2021 and finished it 8 months later on September 22nd, 2021. It’s pretty big for me, 7.5” x 10”, which makes it probably the biggest sketchbook I’ve had in like 10 years. It was a gift from my brother-in-law’s family.

If I were to describe this sketchbook in one word it would be “smooshy.” I actually really like the soft cover, the elastic strap, and the huge pocket in the back, but the paper is really thick and soft. After its been used the pages kinda spread, so it doesn’t lay flat. That’s a bad way to describe it, I’ll take a pic to show you what I mean.

See? You can squish it to half the size. The paper itself isn’t my favorite… it’s really soft! It can take washes, markers and ink well, but everything soaks into the paper in a way that makes me personally feel DRIED OUT. This sketchbook left me parched. After a while I ended up loving having so much room for comics, and since the bleed through was pretty bad with fountain pen ink (which is all I’ve been using since the pandemic), I didn’t want to use the other side of the pages… so I taped in tons of what I call my “Clippings”, random doodles on pads that I use for work notes. Some of my favorite drawings in this sketchbook are the clippings. Overall, I enjoyed how different this one was for me and can definitely see the general appeal of this sketchbook, but after lugging it around for 8 months I’m definitely ready to go back to something slimmer.