The phrase "a drawing pad" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a pad of paper specifically designed for drawing or sketching.
Example: "I bought a new drawing pad to practice my sketching skills."
Alternatives: "sketch pad" or "art pad".
This paper are for any stray drawings you want to draw, so you can have a drawing pad too.
Jason Polan, a freelance illustrator who lives in midtown, flipped open a drawing pad as he headed into Zuccotti Park on a recent chilly evening.
I'd have a drawing pad and pencils with me, and in between selling I would draw people and window displays," he said.
Citarella was hunched over a drawing pad connected to his computer, using a stylus to put the final touches on the display image for their newest work.
After hours of trying to elicit any scrap of detail about his life, someone had the idea of leaving him with a drawing pad and pencils.
At a meeting to present the firm's proposal to the architect and developers, John Skilling, one of the four partners, used only a drawing pad, an easel, and some markers to make his pitch.
"This part is too light, so I am going to basically start to burn it in and bring in more density," Mr. Dangin said, scribbling with a stylus on a computerized drawing pad as he adjusted the color and contrast in a photo by Adam Bartos, an art photographer.
There is a large drawing pad on an easel at one end, covered with sketches of screen shots from Fidelity's Web site.
Last season, in one of the best "Saturday Night Live" opening monologues in recent memory, Zach Galifianakis, dressed in a red dress, lip-synched "Tomorrow," from the musical "Annie," while tearing pages of jokes about gay marriage and pot smoking, written with a Sharpie marker, from a giant drawing pad.
A slim woman in a blonde Dusty Springfield wig sits with a large drawing pad on her lap, sketching furiously.
A tiny woman in a blonde Dusty Springfield wig sits with a large drawing pad on her lap, sketching furiously.
