Strathmore 300 Series Charcoal Paper Pad, Glue Bound, 9x12 inches, 32 Sheets (64lb/95g) - Artist Paper for Adults and Students - Charcoal and Pastel

The paper has a nice texture, holds the charcoal well and its not thin. I do other art and have a ton of paper and its not true that you can use any paper for charcoal. Im will buy again

Perfect for what I need. Has a very nice thickness. Holds the charcoal well. I’m loving it.

Good price. Good quality. As expected.

This is a go-to paper for me. I love working in charcoal and this has an excellent tooth, which is valuable in three ways.1. It can hold a large build-up of charcoal for getting extremely deep, dark shadows.2. It can stand a lot of reworking and erasing without showing any damage or unwanted texture in the final work. That's hard with charcoal.3. It can handle a lot of blending and rubbing without loosing its texture and ability to hold charcoal.I go through this pretty quickly. It's a favorite. This is the one most commonly recommended by teachers I've studied under, justifiably so. As one teacher said, you don't want to fight the materials. If you give 100% effort to a material that can only give you 85%, you'll only get 85% results. Go with quality. This is going to give you 100%.

when it first arrived I pulled it out of the box and the sheets fell out of the pad and slid all across my floor. However, other than that occurring, the pad is very nice to use and the paper is very high quality.

My daughter does a lot of charcoal art pieces. And she loves it. Definitely at the end spray lightly with spray for pencil and charcoal so it does not smear.

This was purchased for my soft pastel learning journey. I bought this larger sized pad to do big projects and also to cut down for smaller ones...for this it's a great value! Quality & thickness was what I was expecting. The paper is smooth. Really good for my work.

If you take working in charcoal seriously, this is some excellent paper. The tooth and feel feedback is amazing. You can rework areas of your drawings and fine tune without worry of dramatic wear. However, if you go deep and heavy, you will have trouble reworking, so make certain on your final marks.I'm still exploring Strathmore's product line, but I try to purchase the best I can find when it comes to art paper. So far they are the "go to" company for this.