Good drawings start with the right surface. Different projects need different media. Vellum behaves differently than tracing paper. Marker paper handles ink differently than bond paper. Choosing the right surface can make drafting, sketching, printing, and presentation work much easier.
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11" x 17" 500 Series Sequential Art Bristol Pad - Smooth Surface
Strathmore$56.40This 100% cotton bristol is an industry standard. It has been the choice among sequential art professionals and award winning illustrations for years. Features:11" x 17" Sheet Size2-PlyPlate... -
Newsprint Rolls - Rough
Seth Cole$16.70 - $31.10Seth Cole's #79R is a rough-surfaced Newsprint. It easily receives all grades of charcoal, pencil, conte, pastels and chalk for free-flowing lines and rich effects. This newsprint takes erasures... -
Rhodia Graphic Sketch/Memo Pads
Rhodia$3.10 - $11.70Handy economical white sketch/memo pads with violet 5x5 squares per inch grid lines. Sheets are approximately 20 lbs. basis weight and perforated for quick tear-off. For various home school office... -
12" x 50yds. 55Y Sketch Paper Roll
Pacific Arc$16.60Pacific Arc 55Y yellow semi-transparent tracing paper is ideal for making copies or transferring drawings from one surface to another. Yellow Tracing Paper Roll made with 7 lb acid free paper. -
20lb. Layout Bond
Seth Cole$12.30 - $109.80Seth Cole's layout bond is versatile, acid-free, and ideal for preliminary sketches. A reliable working paper. An economical, all sulfite, multi-purpose paper any time, any place. This paper is... -
24 x 36 Vellum 1000HTSA Architectural Title Block - 100 Sheets
Clearprint$357.251000H 16-pound Clearprint Vellum is the most popular vellum on the market. Made of 100% new cotton fiber, this media is transparentized without solvents to produce the proper translucency as well as... -
400 Series Recycled Hard-Bound Drawing Art Journals
Strathmore$16.95 - $26.50Lightly-textured, matte cover in dark chocolate brown. Durable Smyth-sewn binding allows pages to lay flatter. This bright white drawing paper has a Very Good rating for graphite pencil, colored... -
523 Raritan Drawing Paper Pads
Bienfang$6.60 - $23.40Great tooth for subtle color and shade effects, Bienfang's Drawing Paper Pad has a medium surface texture that stands up again erasing and scraping, and is ideal for techniques utilizing pencil,... -
8.5" x 11" 8x8 Grid Bond Paper Pad
Bienfang$7.95This 8x8 grid bond paper is designed for drafting, sketching, layout work, and classroom use. The printed grid provides helpful measuring guidance while the bond paper surface works well for pencil,... -
Engineer Computation Pad
Staedtler$9.95Engineering Computation Pad 5 x 5 cross section ruled on 1 sideFeatures: Green tinted translucent sulfite bondPrinted with green ink that conforms to environment standardsThree-hole punched5 x 5... -
Newsprint Pad -Rough
Seth Cole$8.30 - $52.40Seth Cole's #79R is a rough-surfaced Newsprint. It easily receives all grades of charcoal, pencil, conte, pastels and chalk for free-flowing lines and rich effects. This newsprint takes erasures... -
36" Vellum Rolls - 4x4 Grid
Pacific Arc$33.15 - $181.85Bullets Features: 100% Cotton Rag – Provides strength and smoothness for high-quality technical drawings. 16 lb. Industry Standard – Balances translucency and stability. 4×4... -
36"W - 20lb. High Brite Inkjet Bond Roll - 2" Core
Dietzgen$123.20 - $228.75This Dietzgen paper is 20LB high bright (96%) inkjet production bond paper. High Brite Bond provides good ink adhesion, print quality, line acuity and image clarity across multiple print technologies... -
36"W Vellum Rolls 1000H
Clearprint$33.45 - $178.551000H 16-pound Clearprint Vellum is the most popular vellum on the market. Made of 100% new cotton fiber, this media is transparentized without solvents to produce the proper translucency as well as... -
8.5 x 11 Vellum Sheets 1000H - Plain
Clearprint$9.75 - $41.951000H 16-pound Clearprint Vellum is the most popular vellum on the market. Made of 100% new cotton fiber, this media is transparentized without solvents to produce the proper translucency as well as... -
Alva-Flex Drafting Film - 3mil - Single Matte
Alvin Drafting$17.60 - $112.65Superior long-lasting and chemically matted for pencil and ink drawing applications and will not tear cut stain become brittle or discolor with age. Excellent erasability for both ink and film lead... -
MESA Sketchbooks
Pacific Arc$5.40 - $15.00Introducing the Mesa Series wire-bound sketchbooks—a perfect blend of quality and affordability. These sketchbooks feature slightly off-white toned paper with an excellent tooth and an acid-free... -
10x10 Quadrille Bond
Seth Cole$10.00 - $71.90Seth Cole's #78 paper is a 20lb, acid-free, versatile layout bond, with a smooth opaque surface, printed with a non-reproducable blue grid.Features:8.5" x 11" Sheet Size20lb BondAcid freeSmooth... -
200 Series Sketch Pad
Strathmore$4.40 - $6.75Sketch Paper is a lighter weight paper that is great for experimentation and practicing techniques. A light weight sketch paper excellent for on-location sketching and practicing techniques. Acid... -
24 x 36 Vellum Sheets 1000H - Plain - 100-Sheets
Clearprint$282.601000H 16-pound Clearprint Vellum is the most popular vellum on the market. Made of 100% new cotton fiber, this media is transparentized without solvents to produce the proper translucency as well as...
Drafting Paper & Drawing Media
The wrong surface fights your pencil, bleeds your ink, or falls apart the moment you erase. The right one disappears underneath the work. We’ve been thinking about that difference for a long time.
DEW built its reputation on technical drawing media. We know drafting vellum the way most suppliers know copy paper: the weight differences, the tooth, which grades hold up under technical pens versus lead, which rolls work with large format printers and which ones don’t. Brands like Clearprint and Dietzgen have been part of what we carry since the beginning, and our team has used this stuff on actual drawings, not just stocked it on a shelf.
Over the years we have expanded that same approach into drawing and illustration papers. Sketchbooks, bristol, charcoal and pastel paper, marker paper, mixed media. The selection has grown because the people who draw by hand, whether professionally or purely for the enjoyment of it, deserve a source that takes the material seriously.
What you will find in this category runs from highly technical to purely expressive. On the drafting side, that means vellum sheets and rolls, mylar drafting film, layout bond, graph and grid papers, and large format CAD and inkjet media for plotters. On the drawing and illustration side, you’ll find sketch pads and sketchbooks, tracing paper, bristol boards, newsprint, charcoal and pastel paper, watercolor paper, and mixed media surfaces. In between there’s tracing paper that serves both worlds, presentation and mounting boards, foam boards, and specialty films and barrier papers for protection and overlays.
If you’re a drafter or engineer who has always bought vellum here and never explored the rest of the section, it’s worth a look. And if you’re an artist or illustrator finding us for the first time, know that this isn’t a general art store that happens to carry a few rolls of tracing paper. The depth here is real.
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