"You need to knead your
kneaded eraser!" You will use the
kneaded eraser to lighten or lift up tonal values.
I use a
kneaded eraser, which is a type of soft eraser that enables you to mold it quickly into any shape to erase very small areas.
"Use a
kneaded eraser to pull out the highlight on the dog's nose." "Add the details of the flower center...."
The best eraser to use is a
kneaded eraser because it does not tear the paper or leave "crumbs."
She shared lots of tips with the novices - when to use different hardnesses of drawing pencils, how to create a foggy effect using a
kneaded eraser, creating sharp lines by carving the edge of a white vinyl eraser - before moving on to composing a landscape.
If they need to erase, a
kneaded eraser works well.
After completing the pencil drawings, students began shading using black-and-white charcoal pencils, a
kneaded eraser, and sparing use of a blending stump.
Faber-Castell injects some zest into the gray life of the
kneaded eraser with a new line of Colored
Kneaded Erasers.
One was a hard-edged, white Staedtler eraser and the other a
kneaded eraser that could be shaped to fit into small areas without obliterating an entire portion of a drawing with one swipe.
Some students approached the coils by shading the thickness of the coil, then lifting out highlights with a
kneaded eraser, uncovering the gray, middle value of the paper to suggest the roundness.
I had them darken the paper with vine charcoal, then study the nest's shape and form, lifting the shapes with a
kneaded eraser, all with the goal of suggesting form.
Students were introduced to a
kneaded eraser used for "lifting" off graphite or making an area lighter; a pink "correction" eraser; an eraser shield for cleaning edges; and a drawing brush for wiping away eraser residue.