Comments about Fabriano Artist’s Journal:

I've been keeping a journal for the last fifteen years. Having filled four previous volumes of varying quality. I'm about to finish my current Artist's Journal. It is my fifth. I look forward to replacing it with another Fabriano Artist's Journal.

Comments about Fabriano Artist’s Journal:

The journal provides various colored grounds that go great with pastel or other sketch mediums. For whatever reason, the product seems hard to find. Kudos to Blick for making it available at a great price.

Comments about Fabriano Artist’s Journal:

I love the different colors and they are not so large that you can't carry around.

Comments about Fabriano Artist’s Journal:

i bought one of these years ago (and am on here considering buying one again). Yes, it's a soft cover. But it will hold up under stress. i bought mine at a time when i was couch surfing, living out of a bag, and being downright moody. i am tough on things, and the book stayed together just fine. In fact the cover just got more touchable and the book became a good friend. As far as I know, there are no other sketchbooks with multicolored pages that are this bright, and I don't know of any others with so many pages, except perhaps the new flexi-sketch books. This book always put me in a good mood, and pushed my drawing to new places, as i learned to use the bright pages well.

so to counter the previous review: no, it's not a hardcover. but it stays together just as well.

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This book is great for sketching out compositions in ink and making notations on progress. I use the Pitt artist pens. The bold black lines are great against the various colors of the paper. I have been using this product since 2001. Although I am sad to see it discontinued I am covered since I have enough to last for at least 25 years since it takes me about a year to fill it. I admit the cover is not the best but the paper is. I had a leather cover custom made to fit this sketch book and it keeps it intact just fine.

Comments about Fabriano Artist’s Journal:

This journal does feature a (very) think paper cover, not a hard cover, but the interior pages are high quality Fabriano paper with a nice tooth for pastel, charcoal and pencil work. It's also sturdy enough to paste in items and stuff full of collected things without killing the integrity of the book. I've had several of these books, both colored and cream paper as well as the larger and smaller sizes, and they continue to be one of my favorite artist journals. They are a bit expensive but the paper is very good and I've carried then around a lot and have yet to have one fall apart on me. I see these are now being listed under "clearance" and it would be a real shame for Blick to stop carrying these!!!

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I purchased a multi-colored journal and cream/white journal. The product quality is only average at best.

They are listed as "hard cover", but the cover is more of a thick but still very flexible paper, about the thickness of a cereal box. Several of the corners were bent upon arrival, and overall it just doesn't feel sturdy. I definitely would not consider this "hard cover" by any stretch of the word. The pages are secured to the cover by a thick and brittle glue, and over the top spine of the multi-color has overflowed onto the pages. The binding has the feel of a cheap paperback.

The paper inside is as described, but when I flipped through my white/cream journal I noticed several pages with black streaks which won't come up with eraser.

Overall I am very very disappointed in this purchase. I feel misled by the "hard cover" listing, the quality of binding, and the quality control over the paper.