Comments about Borden & Riley #125 Marker Sketch Pads:

I recently bought the 9x12 pad of this paper, and went at it with the different mediums I use (except watercolours, acrylics, and a few dry mediums that I don't use when drawing anyways). So far this has been good to me. I've drawn in pencil and erased a good amount of times that this paper should have lifted and torn. I've rendered with markers, and it hasn't eaten through them that I have to refill them, and ontop of those markers I've gone in with pencil crayons, and finliners. Luckily it does have a plastic/waxy kind of backing to it which I guess is what makes it bleedproof. To me it holds up really well for paper that is reasonable in price.

Cons are you can't draw on the back of the sheets of paper (I don't normally but if you are that kind of person then this probably is something you should consider if you're looking at this paper). With rapido sketch pens the ink does spread a bit making the lines look thicker. I tested it having more control with the pen and the line quality doesn't look like it has that spreading effect anymore. Still safer to just use fineliners on this paper it doesn't have that problem, at least with me it hasn't.

Comments about Borden & Riley #125 Marker Sketch Pads:

Still allows for capillary attraction with both tech pens and markers.Lines aren't clean enough.