Some artists, knowing that blue pencil "will not show", tend to be more uninhibited and loose when roughing it out. Once they hold a pencil-- ding! I personally use red when animating, cause i find it is easier to see which line i am working with.
Also it gives me the chance to build on the drawings with another colour, say blue, or Tuscan Red, and it will show up nicely. If you start with blue, it usually ends up too dark to draw ontop with any sort of clarity. But then maybe im just a heavy drawer.. Back when Disney had a 2D animation department, the rough animation was done in red. This allowed the cleanup artists to hold a red gel over the drawing and see just the cleanup line they were working on, and then compare it to the rough by removing the gel.
When the finished drawing was scanned into CAPS, they'd filter out the red and be left with just the graphite cleanup line. Since it never showed up in the scans, there was some wacky stuff added to those roughs in red pencil, lemme tell you.
Skip to main content. What is the purpose of the blue pencil? Log in or register to post comments. I've just started to learn to draw comics. I want a blue pencil for sketch, and I want to erase it. What do you recommend me for sketching? It seems that I have to mention: "I'm not asking about brands". Improve this question. VansFannel VansFannel 6 6 bronze badges. I think there was some confusion here regarding "erasable colored pencils", which is not a product type that's common knowledge despite the marketing attempts of the product makers ;.
I'm cleaning up this comment thread because everything has been clarified in replies that have been seen, or the answers below. The earlier conversation has been moved to chat. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. An alternative is looking at why you need to have a blue pencil for sketching. Why blue? Why erasable?
Okay, use one anyway! Practice line control. You could be making your lines darker than necessary. This is both a physical and mental issue. The physical part is gaining the fine motor control to make light enough lines. The mental part is being okay with not having dark, clear lines. Both require practice and training to overcome. Try a different type of eraser link. Some types of erasers simply don't work well for certain media. Improve this answer.
Sorry, I'm not English and I don't know how you call it, but I'm trying to find a pencil that let me distinguish between the first line I draw i. It's a mess!! A lot of lines of the same colour. This is why I'm looking for a blue pencil. VansFannel Yup, that's called the undersketch, under-drawing, sketch layer, or any number of things. I refer to it as the undersketch in my answer.
My main point is that I think you can get by without one if you need to, but if you can't.. This makes the light ghost lines I need. If you use a regular Prismacolor non-photo blue pencil, it makes a bold blue line. I have also found that other brands of non-photo blue pencils make darker marks as well and I avoid them.
This pencil is very very light. If it does not make a mark that is dark enough to barely see, do not press harder, instead make multiple lines, circling back over the same stroke until it appears. If you press too hard and are doing a graphite pencil drawing with lots of blended subtle shading, the non photo blue lines will prevent some of the graphite from adhering to the paper, leaving light lines against the shading.
Also on some types of watercolor paper, the non-photo blue pencil seems to act as a resist, preventing some of the paint from sticking in the same way. Slick paper may not have enough tooth for the non-photo blue pencil to catch and leave a mark.
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