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Chris: Interesting choices. I am not yet at the wipe it off at the end of the session stage, but I am getting there.
I now understand why people use charcoal and pastel paper specifically - it really does make a difference. I tried yesterday on Arches watercolor paper and the results were "not quite nice". So I went to the nearby art store and got some Fabrino Ingres charcoal and drawing paper and boy did that make a difference.
The thing I notice in cheaper papers is that it is really hard to get darks to stick. You go over it once and it is somewhat dark - you go over it again and what you put down the first time just falls off the paper. This Fabrino paper was nice because it wiped off cleaner, and your first stroke stayed in when you put your second down - thus, I was able to build values incrementally.
Re: Watercolor. I saw several people struggling with watercolor at the classes I have been to. They too seemed frustrated. There was one guy who really had it down and was doing quite nice work from it. I would think it would be quite difficult.
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