Bristol Board

About this size

Bristol board is the standard finished-illustration surface for line art. The smooth surface accepts technical pens and brush ink cleanly without bleed or feathering, the heavy weight resists warping under marker work, and the 9 by 12 page size matches most comic-illustration scripting workflows.

For scanning, the white Bristol surface gives a clean threshold for converting line work to print-ready art. That clean scan path is one reason Bristol stays the default for inked illustration even decades into the digital workflow era.

• Ink drawings
• Smooth illustration
• Finished art