Ronnie Tucker – Pet, Wildlife & Portrait Artist.

Drawing… with an eraser?

Dec 28, 2009 art, pencil

a Kneadable/Putty Eraser

Drawing with an eraser may sound like an oxymoron, but it is possible.

In the drawing below, Allosaurus, I’ve used smeared graphite for a background then added more smeared graphite to the subject to create the shadow areas, the residue graphite that is still on the cloth is then rubbed in to the mid-tone areas. Any areas that need to be highlights are ‘drawn’ with the putty eraser (more on kneadable/putty erasers here), effetively removing the mid/dark-tone graphite.

Allosaurus - graphite on paper

The entire process is shown in the YouTube video below. The video is at double speed, the actual drawing too me over 20mins to complete.

The same steps were used in my Godzilla interpretation sketch.

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