![]() It seems to be their nature, so I buy the small ones and get five or six at a time. I usually keep the one I’m using stuck to my drawing board, in a small pill box, or stuck in the cap of a Coke bottle, but they still get lost. However, they’re sticky and tend to get lost. Kneaded erasers are great for general clean-up work around the edges of the drawing too. If you don’t use the kneaded eraser first, you could end up smearing the graphite and even driving it farther into the paper with the polymer eraser. If you have a very dark area in the drawing that you need to remove, you should pull up as much graphite as possible using a kneaded eraser first by pressing and lifting, then use a polymer eraser to erase the remainder. You can lighten an area by gentle tapping or rolling, and you can pinch them into a point and then use the tip to create subtle detail and texture. They are slightly sticky, but not too much. Kneaded erasers are the most useful, and I like General’s Brand. Here are the erasers I use and how I use them. I’ve listed them in the order I use them most. I usually pinch it, cut it, or alter it’s shape somehow to help create the effect I’m looking for. However, I hardly ever apply an eraser to the paper as it was intended to be used. I depend on my erasers as much as I depend on my pencils, so I guess I’m officially a pencil and eraser artist. ![]() From grass seed heads to my cat’s whiskers, my erasers have helped me draw every graphite piece I’ve ever made. ![]() While I could draw without erasers, my drawing technique would be tremendously different without them. ![]()
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