i bought some medium kneaded putty rubber for my drawing the other day, and i was wondering, do i need to knead it out of the blck? or just use it as a normal rubber, thanks.

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Originally posted by Cloud:
Dude I hate putty rubber. It flops all over when your trying to erase.

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Ok, his i totally agree with, if you make a small bit of it, its too thin and flops every where, this i find annoying, ill try your suggestion. thanks.

I mainly use putty rubbers for getting rid of unwanted smudges.

I find kneaded erasers very useful for gentle gradient correction and lighting areas, as opposed to all out erasing, as it's usually too soft to effectively focus on a small area, I usually rely on eraser sticks for small area erasing like that. Kneaded erasers can do wonders when putting highlights and tints in graphite, charcoal, conte or other darkly rendered drawings ^_^

Using kneaded erasers, you'll find that it can add a great deal of richness to full pencil renders, but not quite as useful for black and white line drawings. I mainly use two techniques with kneaded erasers, you can either use them for rolling to collect loose graphite and clean dirty areas, or you can pat them down softly like when using a face pad (Don't ask) for a gentle lightning effect. There are also some pretty interesting effects you can achieve by manipulating the shape of a kneaded eraser, but that's a bit long to explain and best left to experimentation.

Hahhaa, I was a HUGE fan of kneaded erasers back in film school, I literally collected them, and have a ball about the size of my fist still on my desk.

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