how not to "mess up"(literally) your drawing?

[KlarkKentThe3rd]

When you draw, how to prevent the hand from messing up the picture as you draw it? You know, touching the lines and getting making a mess?

[Seth]

Use what I call a "slip sheet" Take a small piece of paper and put it under neath your hand while drawing. This will prevent the lines from smudging. Hope this helps! :)

[KlarkKentThe3rd]

Use what I call a "slip sheet" Take a small piece of paper and put it under neath your hand while drawing. This will prevent the lines from smudging. Hope this helps! :)

How dumb was I!!! I should go back to school :P

[jeremyhopkins]

Yep, that's the same solution I use too. You can also buy a a pair of cotton gloves: http://www.chromacolour.com/store/animation-accessories.htm

[jeremyhopkins]

I'm going to move this to the techniques forum too. Thanks!

[DNethery]

Use what I call a "slip sheet" Take a small piece of paper and put it under neath your hand while drawing. This will prevent the lines from smudging. Hope this helps! :)


Yes, Post-It Notes™ are perfect for that. The Post-It Note can easily be re-positioned on the parts of the drawing you want to cover so the graphite doesn't get smeared by your hand.

http://www.treehugger.com/post-it-notes.jpg

Some people use these:

http://www.smudgeguard.com/gallery.htm

[KlarkKentThe3rd]

Yes, Post-It Notes™ are perfect for that. The Post-It Note can easily be re-positioned on the parts of the drawing you want to cover so the graphite doesn't get smeared by your hand.

http://www.treehugger.com/post-it-notes.jpg

Some people use these:

http://www.smudgeguard.com/gallery.htm

I think I'll go budget-class and will try to be careful or use simple paper.

[Seth]

How dumb was I!!! I should go back to school :P

Hey, don't worry about it. I had the same problem until a year ago, until my Art Teacher showed me. I felt pretty stupid that I didn't figure it out on my own. :laughing:

[DNethery]

Does everyone know the little trick of using the oblong Acme peg holes on a spare sheet of animation paper as a handy eraser template ?

If you own a metal eraser template (http://www.duall.com/image/spacer.gif), that's fine, but the peg holes on a sheet of animation paper will do the same thing.

http://www.hstech.org/howto/paperwk/ltgtemp.jpg

Say you want to selectively erase a small area on a drawing, such as an eyelash or a button a character's shirt , but you don't want to erase any of the area around it ... use the eraser template to erase just the part you want to get rid of.

This is a small thing, but in actual production (especially for clean-up) it is a significant time saver , to avoid erasing more of the drawing than you want to erase.

[Sidney]

hah, cool! I've never seen so many different ones.
I have the small one in the bottom right corner.

Good times.:cool: