I sketch with charcoal so I prefer newsprint, or any cheap paper for that matter. But I wanted to try something new and this also offered a different tone. I was really excited knowing it's really hard to find cool colors other than white and gray. When I unrolled it, it was just thin translucent tissue paper and realized it was not sketching paper at all. After staring at this for a while, I said, "what can it hurt?" So i gave it a try, sketching with soft charcoal, and it still warped and cut through the paper. In the description, it said you could use marker or even pencil on it. I wouldn't recommend it. So those of you out there that have the same idea, all I can say is that you'd be more satisfied sketching on cheap toilet paper, but on the upside I have cool tissue paper now.  :)