07-07-2010, 09:19 AM
The styrene sheet that I have been using is as slick as glass and, having no "tooth" does not take pencil well. A #2 wipes off with my fingers, but in many instances, the best thing I've found to remove pencil (even from a very soft 4B pencil) is a Staedtler Mars Plastic 526 50 white plastic eraser. [Made in Germany.]
It leaves no residue, does not smear the graphite from the pencil all over and leaves a sheet of drawing paper looking, dare I say it ... virgin!
They can be found in any for-real art supply store ... the kind where professionals shop, not the little arts-and-crafts store frequented by the "ladies from the club" who fancy themselves artists because they spread acrylic tube-type paint on pre-stretched canvases with a Grumbacher Fan Brush and follow the directions for technique from some guy in a beret and goatee who has a half-hour show on TV. Oh ... do I sound condescending? Well ... so be it.
Anyway, seek out a decent art supply store and get yourself a Staedtler Mars Plastic 526 50 eraser and your problems should become the stuff of history! If not, PM me and tell me about it. That type of eraser has my "go to" Line Eliminator since 1971! I used to buy them by the box!
It leaves no residue, does not smear the graphite from the pencil all over and leaves a sheet of drawing paper looking, dare I say it ... virgin!
They can be found in any for-real art supply store ... the kind where professionals shop, not the little arts-and-crafts store frequented by the "ladies from the club" who fancy themselves artists because they spread acrylic tube-type paint on pre-stretched canvases with a Grumbacher Fan Brush and follow the directions for technique from some guy in a beret and goatee who has a half-hour show on TV. Oh ... do I sound condescending? Well ... so be it.
Anyway, seek out a decent art supply store and get yourself a Staedtler Mars Plastic 526 50 eraser and your problems should become the stuff of history! If not, PM me and tell me about it. That type of eraser has my "go to" Line Eliminator since 1971! I used to buy them by the box!
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln