Strathmore 400 Series Drawing Rolls

This is wonderful paper for drawing with graphite or charcoal. It is unfortunate that it is only sold in rolls. I work mainly on 14x17 paper with means a lot of very frustrating work to cut this paper to size. The fact that the paper is rolled very tightly does not help the process. That is bad enough but once the paper is cut to size it is near impossible to have it lay flat as it was rolled too tightly. Very often the paper will get creases from me trying to unroll it and be ruined for drawing. This is the absolute worst way to package this project. It is too bad that Opus has stopped selling the pre-cut pads.