Shore & Marsh Portrait Hardback Sketchbook A5 92 Sheets
Is $ 12.00
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Shore & Marsh Portrait Hardback Sketchbook A5 92 Sheets
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Rated 5 out of
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Palia from
Sketch book
Beautiful hard back sketch book.
Lovely quality. Will treasure it.
Date published: 2025-04-16
Rated 5 out of
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Zdenka72 from
Notepad
Really nice notepad, I am using it for my sketching
Date published: 2025-02-04
Rated 5 out of
5
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Magz1989 from
Black book
Love do my drawing when I’m feeling down or bored
Date published: 2025-09-10
Rated 5 out of
5
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ReganE from
Great sketch book
Nice thick paper for sketching and painting and great amount of pages and hard back cover .
Date published: 2025-10-04
Rated 5 out of
5
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thank you they are very from
drawing books good price
thank u very i got more books i needed them to practice on
Date published: 2025-09-21
Rated 3 out of
5
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londinius from
So-so own brand sketchbook
This Shore and Marsh product (Hobbycraft own brand) is a cloth bound hard backed casebound journal. It is a true A5 size. There’s no elastic fastening, no document wallet and no integral bookmark so if those are essentials as far as you’re concerned then this is not a sketching journal for you. The paper is 140gsm and there are – get this – 92 sheets which is 184 sides of paper for drawing on. So, on paper (should you pardon the pun) this looks like incredible value. Hobbycraft currently sell this at £6 a pop, although I have seen it said that this is a sale price , and the usual price is £8. Well, my calculations are based on the £6 I paid. This means that each side of paper costs you about 3p. Which is incredibly cheap. I’ve christened the first page with a drawing in ink fineliner – 0.1mm and 0.5mm. The paper in this Shore and Marsh journal has quite a rough texture, and I did find quite a bit of resistance to the pen, especially when I was using the 0.1mm pen. I don’t mind a little bit of resistance, but this seemed excessive to me and it meant that I didn’t enjoy making the drawing as much as I’ve enjoyed using other brands of sketchbook. When I finished the drawing I turned over the page and could clearly see some dots where the fineliner had come through. This is disappointing considering that both Seawhite and Derwent use paper that is no heavier than this journal, but neither of them has this problem.
It is a shame, because I do most of my drawing in fineliner. I would recommend this on if you’re going to be exclusively sketching with graphite, charcoal or coloured pencil. Even if you’re only planning to use dry media and cost is an issue for you, I would still recommend spending a little bit more and buying something a little more forgiving and a little more easy on the pen.
Date published: 2026-02-11
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