So I drew a bot on all of them using my standard Staedtler Triplus, Rotring Tikky 0.7 and Berol broad pens I do most of my sketches in. The one on the left was the Windsor & Newton Bristol board, it was lovely the colour is a bit grey, but fely lovely to use. The one in the middle is the Letraset marker paper it comes up a bit cream, but it has the bonus of being traceable, it didn't feel right with pencils though for the sketch. The one on the right was the Strathmore, by far the most expensive possible because of the size as well as quality, good with the pencils and well as the pens comes up a little yellow, but that is fine. None of them leaked through on to the next page not even with the Rotring which gushes ink out. All of these require extra waiting time before erasing pencil lines as the ink takes longer to dry on the hot pressed surface. If you look closely you'll see little pools of ink at the end of each line which is what takes the time and if you erase to early, this is where the smudging will come from.
The sketch below was done on Tesco presentation board which I have been using a lot it is very cheap to buy comes up super bright white, paper and pens are fine on it, it just is a that little bit coarser which takes away a little of the pleasure of sketching a little.
Overall I like the Windsor & Newton the best, good price, lovely to use. The Strathmore has the nice size, the Letraset the tracing option, and Tesco the super cheap price, but the best all rounder in the Windsor & Newton Bristol board.
So what next more pens? Probably.
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