Canson XL Series Drawing Paper, Black, Wirebound Pad, 11x14 inches, 40 Sheets (92lb/150g) - Artist Paper for Adults and Students - Colored Pencil, Ink, Pastel, Marker

It was for my sons birthday and he loves it. Good quality!

....the cover is just a piece of paper itself which I can see easily tearing. Ive never had a Canson sketchbook that didnt have a strong, resilient cover. I had to take off two stars for that because I travel with my sketchbooks often and need them to withstand constant backpack wear and tear. But the paper is absolutely black and beautiful. A lot of sketchbooks that advertise black paper are really dark grey, definitely not the case with this sketchbook. The pages are perforated which is also lovely. If you dont mind not having a cover, you will love this!!

Perfect just what I needed, great quality, good price.

Nice thick papers, great quality. I use gel pens to draw and so glad to see that paper does not bleed through.

just fine

Good

This sketch pad was amazing and huge. Very happy with it.

Very thin, not able to use it for Gouache

It seems like it might be a good paper but the warp is so strong :(. I am puzzled as dont like the hustle of returns. Wish the companies sell such items with a discounted rate and proper indication of the flaws, they can even unite them for bulk offers. For some projects and buyers it can work. Yet for a beginner when 5+ of art supply orders had some flaws it feels like a turn off to get them here without actually seeing the physical state of the items. Anyways, shopping on amazon is convenient yet comes at times at a cost. Not for purchasing gifts at least. Shipping was ok as promised. The box was not damaged, I am 100% sure the item was flawed when they were packing it. I might try to straigten the albums (a smaller one was also bended a bit) and if it does not work will have to return it. Update: I tried to straighten in under a paper box, it did help a bit taking about 50% of the warp. Not ideal but I decided to keep the paper and perhaps use it for some other crafting as well as framing.

Purchased as gift for a friends kids -- they create drawings with colored and regular pencils; the larger size helps as they explore a variety of drawing techniques illustrated in book I found for young artists.