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How to Make a Comic Strip : Why Use a Blue Pencil for Comic Strip?

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Uploaded by on Feb 16, 2008

Why cartoonist prefer to use blue lead pencils from their easy erasability to future inking considerations; learn this and more in this free online art lessons about creating comic strips taught by experienced cartoonist and graphic artist Matt Cail.

Expert: Matt Cail
Contact: www.homepaintings.biz
Bio: Matt Cail is an artist who works in oil, water color and acrylic paints, among others.
Filmmaker: randy primm

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  • your eraser is shit.

  • Of course it is! You pressed as hard as you could on the graphite!

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  • @2010tinawowo hey

  • cool :)

  • The entire time, I was like... the hell are you trying to draw?

  • Are you stupid? That is NOT a felt tip pen that's a multi liner.

  • he pushed the graphite pencil down hard so obviously its going to be hard to erase...you should try to keep the drawing loose and light and not press down hard at first. same thing with blue lead, if you press it down hard enough its gonna be hard to erase....plus that eraser is shit...i use hi-polymer eraser.

  • So is the guy using just a normal blue lead crayon or a non-repro blue lead?

  • hee hee comic stripping

  • The best reason to use blue pencil is beacause you dont have to erase at all. Just scan the page and then go to photoshop or gymp and lighten up the blue und the cyan (till 100%). If u use a photoblue pencil you dont have to do even that. Thats the reason to use a BLUE pencil. Matt Cail could use a yellow or a green pencil for his reasons. And at last, if you push with the same presure then blue is actually harder to erase.

  • @anikawright You can order them online at DickBlick or a place like that.

  • i use yellow pencil cause its a light color and easyier to erase than an orange pencil to tighten the pencils just because i can use ink and know ink from pencil.rather than having the hassle to know graphite from ink.BUT HEY what do i know

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