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.

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Tags: allosaurus, dino, dinosaur, drawing, eraser, graphite, kneadable, pencil, plastic, putty, reptile, sketch