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~ColouredArt Aug 11, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
While drawing and then realizing that you have smudged all the areas that are supposed to be white. Also my hand gets very black while drawing so I end up messing up everything. Anything I can do?
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~Ithilloth Sep 8, 2012
when my pencil sketches and drawings get smudged on the white places I just take a rubber and erase what should be erased. :dummy:

tried with blank sheet of paper under my hand but it just won't work.
and I'm lefthanded too XD
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~FlutterGirl7 Sep 8, 2012
There are a couple of more practical things you can do, cos I duno about you, but I don't like the feeling of wearing gloves while drawing, and if a paper/tissue moves while you move your hand, which it tends to do, you'll still end up smudging..So instead, get yourself a shading stomp (if you are drawing with charcoals..) and use it to go over areas you've drawn, it grinds it better into the paper, making it less likely to smudge. Also, be careful never to drag your hand across the paper, be sure to lift when moving your hand, not always going to happen, I know..the shading stomps will help prevent more smudges than you get now from dragging...and lastly, get yourself a magic eraser. Whenever your hand starts getting pencil smudges, rub it off with the magic eraser. Works like a charm.
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~FlutterGirl7 Sep 8, 2012
There are a couple of more practical things you can do, cos I duno about you, but I don't like the feeling of wearing gloves while drawing, and if a paper/tissue moves while you move your hand, which it tends to do, you'll still end up smudging..So instead, get yourself a shading stomp (if you are drawing with charcoals..) and use it to go over areas you've drawn, it grinds it better into the paper, making it less likely to smudge. Also, be careful never to drag your hand across the paper, be sure to lift when moving your hand, not always going to happen, I know..the shading stomps will help prevent more smudges than you get now from dragging...and lastly, get yourself a magic eraser. Whenever your hand starts getting pencil smudges, rub it off with the magic eraser. Works like a charm.
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~starrypawz Sep 8, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Sheet under your hand can be useful, also I found that making sure to wash and properly dry my hands before working can be good and keep an eye on your hand as if it starts getting really greyed up/blackened up from drawing go and wash them.
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~ColouredArt Sep 8, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I wash my hands too :) Because we usually have "fat/oil on our hands"
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~PhinnyMinny Sep 4, 2012   Traditional Artist
Are you left handed? That use to happen to me allllllll the time when I'd work with pencil too. I'd have to make a conscious effort to lift my hand from the paper.
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~ColouredArt Sep 4, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
yes I am, always smudge while writing in school to :( So you say it's a thing only left-handed do :)
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~erspears Sep 7, 2012  Professional
No, that's not what she's saying. It's not a thing only lefties do. It's still your fault you drag your hand over your page, exactly the way it is when righties do it, even if you do use the wrong hand. And, you notice she says she does precisely what a bunch of people have suggested? Your wrong-handedness left-handedness is incidental--you don't have to draw left to right. I draw in the direction that makes sense for the image, which could be right to left, left to right, or anything else, but I still don't smudge my shit, because I lift my hand off the paper.

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~Villekat Sep 2, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I'm not sure how much this will help but if you were a latex glove the oils from your hand wont get on teh paper and wont smudge it as badly.
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~ColouredArt Sep 2, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I guess it would help, but I don't want to wear gloves while drawing :)
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