Video: How to Properly Erase a Comic Strip

How to erase the leftover blue pencil lines that remain in your comic strip after inking; learn this and more in this free online art lessons about creating comic strips taught by experienced cartoonist and graphic artist Matt Cail.

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Next step: erasing. Pull out that good handy dandy eraser of yours and let's get erasing. At this point, we have used all the blue lead on our page. We're not going to go back and do that again. Now it's time to go back and if there's any overlaps to get rid of it, to make sure you don't have double image effects. For this, what I like to do is very lightly go over the entire comic. You want to make sure not to go too heavy because you do not want to pick up the ink. If you go over very nice and light, very gradually, you'll find that you'll pick up the blue, but you won't pick up the ink. I suggest doing this over the entire strip. One word of caution though, make sure you've allowed at least a couple of minutes for the strip to have dried. You do not want to do this right after you've put your ink pen down after you finished your inking process. Otherwise, you're just going to be smearing. We're going to do this across all of our panels. After we have a nice layer of erasing that's gone over everything, we're going to then wipe things away. If we still see lots of blue, we'll repeat the step.

How to Properly Erase a Comic Strip

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