Sunday, April 18, 2010

My smart eraser


During my summer vacation after 12th exams, I joined a drawing class at Chandrakant Mandare Art Gallery. He was a well known Marathi Actor and artist. He taught us a powder shading technique to draw portraits. During that training we learned so many useful drawing techniques.

One of them is…
 
To erase a small part of line drawing or to give a highlight in dark shaded area we use to use eraser and eventually erasing the adjacent lines. In case of putting the highlights using eraser, it was more frustrating as it used to erase the other part of drawing which was not desirable.

See below images. A sliced piece of eraser is fixed into ball pen’s body to serve as a tip. You can call it as an eraser pen.







1)    This method was very effective, useful and was very convenient to erase from parts like eyes, eyelashes and shades of hair without spoiling the drawing. (For detail parts check drawing section at http://www.pradipkhekare.com)
2)    As it is a pen, it gives accurate results. The area adjacent to the eraser tip is visible on paper which is not with regular rectangle eraser.
3)    And most important, it feels GOOD!


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