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This item contains hazardous materials and is subject to special shipping considerations. Bristol Board is an alternative to Illustration Board where both of sides of the board can be worked on.

It is ideal for the Illustrator who wants a light weight board with archival and preservation qualities. The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled. Sign In. Forgot your password? Sign in. Please enter your email below and we'll send you an email to set a new password. Email Address. Set new password Back to Form Login. Sign Up. Do you have a Creative Rewards card? No Yes. Password Strength: No Password.

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Our Bristols are available in vellum, semi-smooth, smooth, and plate surfaces. Smooth: Also known as hot press, has a very satiny, hard finish. This surface is especially good for pen and ink, marker, mechanical layout and airbrush. Vellum: Also called regular, medium or kid finish, this surface has a tooth or roughness, making it excellent for use with dry media including pencil, colored pencil, charcoal, pastel and oil pastel.

Semi-Smooth: The perfect in-between surface that isn't as smooth as smooth, and not as rough as vellum. The Slightly textured surface is suited for pen and ink tools, pencil, specialty pens and markers. Plate: A unique, uniformly smooth finish is created on the surface of the sheet through a special process.

Sheets of paper are interleaved with highly polished metal plates to make a stack or "book". This surface is ideal for pen and ink, marker, mechanical layouts and air-brushing.

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