anchor.diff:          <td data-label="Scanning:">Very good</td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
  -        <td data-label="Name:">Fabriano Studio hot-press watercolor paper</td>
  +        <td data-label="Name:">Fabriano Studio hot press watercolor paper</td>
           <td data-label="Heavy wash:">Good</td>
           <td data-label="Light wash:">Very good</td>
           <td data-label="Dry brush:">Very good</td>
  
positive.code:   images: {
      "#{current_page.url}paper_test-screen-v1-bristol_board.jpg" => "Bristol Board paper test scan",
      "#{current_page.url}paper_test-screen-v2-mixed_media.jpg" => "Mixed Media paper test scan",
      "#{current_page.url}paper_test-screen-v3-hot_press.jpg" => "Fabriano hot-press paper test scan",
      "#{current_page.url}paper_test-screen-v4-cold_press.jpg" => "Strathmore 300-series cold press paper test scan"
    },
    size: "large",
  
negative.code: 
  Likewise, most of my drawings are meant to be scanned; very little of my work on paper is “finished.” That means I need smooth, reasonably neutral-toned paper. And it shouldn’t warp too badly if it gets wet (I hate scanning a drawing and then discovering that a quarter of it is blurred).
  
  Hot press watercolor paper does all this pretty well, and I'd been using it happily for awhile. But it's drawbacks are getting a little harder to deal with: it's pretty expensive, for one, and it can be hard to find. And, because it's expensive and hard to find, it often feels like overkill to use it for work that I'm only scanning. Sometimes I'll need to do a dozen small drawings for a given illustration, and it can be pretty painful to blow an entire $30 pad of Fabriano on one piece. Especially if I run out and then need to drive to Baltimore to get more.
  
  In the end, hot press is already working for me, but I wanted to find out if there's a cheaper, more ubiquitous alternative I could use alongside it. This “workhorse” paper could handle everyday stuff, and I could save a pad of hot press for the more challenging stuff.
  
  So I did a quick and extremely unscientific test of a few common papers using a variety of super-wet to super-dry brush strokes. This was done mostly on scraps of paper I had around my office (like I said, unscientific), but the results were both helpful and surprising; these familiar papers behaved a bit differently than I'd expected. I'll try to revisit this post occasionally and add more papers as I try new kinds out.
  
  