The STAEDTLER karat art eraser is primarily used for hobby and artistic applications. This special-purpose art eraser is easy to knead, allowing you to create shading effects by lightly dabbing, for example. This eraser is particularly suitable for use with soft pastel chalks. Faber Castell Latex Free Eraser, Cream and Grey, natural rubber (two sides: one for graphite and colour pencils and the other for ink.)

After thinking about the following questions I set out to see if testing would help me sort out the differences between erasers. Plastic erasers seem cleaner than rubber erasers because their crumbs are not as fine, the rubber eraser crumbs are so fine it is a bit harder to get rid of them all. Caran D’ache Design Eraser for Graphite and Coloured Pencils (phthalate free) – non-abrasive, not for ink First kneading: a bit stiff, had to twist it to get it to move, held together like gum except when I stretched it more than 2cm then would form fine threads that had little bits caught in it that fell out like snow, so I felt I was losing bits of the rubber. This was prevented by only using a twisting or pressing motion, not a stretching motion. Then it was fine. Second kneading of small piece next day: fine. If you intend to erase small exact areas you might wish to try an eraser shield. A great little device, that is a good value in the drawing companion set.

Eraser

Is there a rubber that will remove a graphite line in a drawing without lightening the ink line on top?

How it performed: Fine on light graphite lines and same as the others on coloured pencil. Fine on removing the graphite under pigment liner pens and didn’t lighten the ink. It lifted a bit more watercolour paint than the others but didn’t erase the graphite at all so was bad at that task. It is hard to erase graphite under a watercolour without damaging it. The best advice is to draw very faint lines you can barely see and when painted over they won’t show. Or let the graphite lines show a bit as part of the painting.When the lead runs out, there are two very easy ways in which you can refill STAEDTLER mechanical pencils with pencil leads:

Erasing Hard or Soft Pastels – Most erasers work to remove pastels (hard and soft) but many people have had mixed results. If your surface is very textured you may have trouble and if your paper is very soft you will need to be careful. Many people find that a putty rubber works best, again using a press and lift action. The sharpener revolves: it can be turned inwards so that it does not leak graphite dust through the blade aperture. To empty the pencil shavings from the (very small) reservoir, simply swing the sharpener outwards and pull it off the main unit. Faber Castell Latex Free Eraser, Red and Blue (two sides: one for graphite and colour pencils and the other for ink.) Faber Castell Perfect Pencil with Eraser + Sharpener (2B pencil with pencil extender, sharpener and eraser all in one) In contrast to mechanical pencils, leadholders are refilled by pressing the push-button to open the drop clutch mechanism and inserting the 2-mm lead (Mars carbon 200) into the leadholder via the tip.For school and office use, in addition to our STAEDTLER rasoplast and STAEDTLER Mars plastic, we offer eraser holders and eraser pencils as a classic option. These are ideal for use as pencil erasers for removing graphite from paper and matt drafting film. Thanks to their ergonomic shape, they are easy to hold while erasing. Dustless (dust-free) eraser crumbs are larger but can build up under the eraser in an interfering clump. Many people find coloured pencils hard to erase and usually impossible to erase completely. They think the best you can do is lighten an area enough that you can colour over it. Most of the time plastic or rubber erasers smear it so it enlarges the problem.