I did a test in my sketch book too. I already had several erasers that I was not pleased with. It is maddening to get smeared graphite all over my paper. I had an Alvin softie velvet, Staedtler Mars plastic eraser, Staedtler Electric eraser, Generals Kneeded eraser, Pentel Hi-polymer eraser, and Pentel Click eraser. I went out and bought two Faber-Castell dust free erasers and I must say I am in LOVE with them. I saved my kneeded eraser. But I chucked all the others in the trash can! Thank you again for making this video!
I don't know bout you peeps but the hi polymer eraser is one of the best I use them for school and they so good that people tend to steal em WHOS WITH ME?👍💟👌
Another super nice review! Just missed Tombow mono and mono light and the ones from Koh-I-Noor but anyway i liked your video, as usual. Got impressed with the good quality of Faber Castell. Have a super nice weekend! :)
This is such a great review on the erasers. Thanks for sharing! FC and Staedtler are the ones I use. I think those 2 are as good as each other, except FC being significantly softer. I was tempted to buy a Caran d'Ache eraser when I saw it on Blick, but I already got lots of great erasers to work with.
Hi Marty! Another on point review of yours! I just wish I had found this video before buying several erasers that just didn't work for my color pencil needs. Although I have not tried the CD Technik eraser, I equally found the Faber Castell dust free eraser to be the best of the ones of tried. Thanks again for this video!
+Christina La Crafty - Absolutely, love the FC Dust Free. The good thing is, erasers are pretty inexpensive. I pay a little extra for good quality, but it's still really cheap in the long run compared to messing up a drawing that took you hours or days to complete. :-)
Thanks for this video about erasers. Other people who does not draw do not understand erasers, there are different kinds of erasers for different kinds of lead. Other people say they're just erasers! My favorite is Faber Castell dust free .
This may sound kinda crazy, but by far my favorite erasers are not the ones I've found in an at store. My current favorites are ones from a party story that were meant for party favors.
Any tool, as long as used correctly and in the hands of a skilled artist, can produce art(unless it's just a really poorly made tool. It has to at least function how it's supposed to.)
Lady QueenBee not cray at all. I randomly picked up some cheap leads at an old grocery store (with lots of leads in a case). They worked as good as Pentels, except some leads had some impurities in it. The bad thing was I can't find it ever again since the grocery story ran out, and the case doesn't even have a brand name on it.
Man... I use Faber castle dust free forever just because that is the highest price eraser available in my nearest art store, and without knowing it's the best one... Thank you to let me know...
Enlightening video. I also am in love with graphite pencil. Looks like I'll pick up the Caran'dAche, but will never abandon my Pink Pearl. Actually use the shavings left on the paper to clean up work- must not forget that!
It depends on the paper. On watercolor paper you can only use ones like factis extra soft, art gum, kneaded eraser. The plastic ones and obviously pink pearl will damage it.
Hello again. I like to use the kneaded eraser (putty rubber) in graphite, to create light zones and to erase mistakes. For details, I like Staedtler Mars 528 50 erase holder and the technical drawing steel plate. But I have always udes Staedtler Mars, the blue one than you reviewed. Thank you!
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Thanks Marty, great review! I didn't know that erasers were that different, so this really taught me! I'm considering buying myself the Faber-Castell, my question is does it work on the Derwent Inktense Pencils? Those are the only colored pencils I have, for now. Also do you have a list of which colored pencils that the Faber-Castell eraser works on? That would be helpful for me and maybe others, since I'm just starting out I want to avoid as many purchasing mistakes as I can. Thanks again!
+Hermione Jarvis Hi Hermione - Not much information available on this. One thing though, you can probably erase the intense when they're dry without any problem, but once they've been wet I don't think the eraser will work as well, but it might be worth testing that aspect. I think the FC erasers were very inexpensive, less than $2.00 US. I'm planning to do another updates eraser review next year. :-) - Marty
I got a question, since a good eraser is something important for my duty and also knowing that the eraser i use for most is the mars plastic, i would also love to know your opinion about its consistancy through years. What i mean is that i have a box full of staedtler Mars Plastic erasers, but im afraid that throught the years the erasers itself may become harder and not being as good as they were supposed to be. I never take their sealed plastic unless when im going to use a new eraser but i dont know if that helps to preserve the ones i have in store over the years. What you say? being sealed for severall years, will it work the same way when i open it up and use it?
Hi hldts - Many erasers do get hard over the years and I don't advise using them. Mars plastic are good for most applications and seem to hold up well over time, however I store mine in zip lock bags. I think that keeping them bagged up helps to extend their life. Thanks for stopping by and for the question.
Owings Art i really aprecciate your suggestion, ill store them up in a bag and away from the light. Thank you for the helpfull video. I really enjoyed the results from the faber castell dust-free. I got admit that i have a faber castell 7086 and i didnt enjoy it at all. i also got faber castell pvc free extra clean and smooth and despite the fact that it was better than the 7086, it wasnt an eraser that i liked that much too. hope the third try is the charm. Looking forward to try the dust-free this time
Thank you really nice video. I am trying to find good stationary and I'm starting of with an eraser. But I don't want to buy one that isn't so great so thank you I really appreciate it!.😍😀
@@owingsart I like it. It erases colored pencils about 80%. Enough for me. Found 12 Faber Castell metallic pencils today on clearance at Michaels art and craft store!!
I'd like to see an update to this video with new erasers. One of them being the Korean model Moo Professional Eraser and a newer version of the Staedtler Mars eraser that says it's now PVC free.
Thank you for the insightful video! I use Hi-Polymer but I'll give the Faber-Castell eraser a try. In my head I was envisioning the kneaded eraser destroying all the erasers listed above for the imaginary charcoal category :P. I normally work with charcoal so I always use kneaded erasers, but I like to doodle from time to time.
For charcoal I definitely use kneaded erasers, :-) But for doodling or creating great works of graphite based art, these work great. Thanks for the comment!
There's another one...Milan Gigante 4.0, a big one in size. However I haven't seen the specs on what exactly this one can do. About the Prismacolor Artgum eraser, I've seen and purchased a version of this that's heavier but lighter in color but costs about 2.00 dollars. I don't know if I'm imagining this but it's definitely heavier in density than the others I've seen in art stores. I don't know if this a manufacturing issue or whether it really is a different version.
DorothyFan1 Thanks DorothyFan1. I don't know about the Artgum you're mentioning, just the ones I demo in the video, which is a good one. I'll look into it and add it to the list for review.
When I was getting art tips from the owner of a local art store in Ohio, he had me using a kneaded eraser. I don't recall the brand; but, it was blue. after using it, I could clean it by kneading it. I'm not sure if it was really clean; but, the graphite disappeared. Eventually, the eraser looked fairly clean.
Donna G It sounds like normal blue tack to me. The stuff that people use to stick stuff to walls. Blue tack and white tack are known to be great erasers probably better than actual kneaded erasers.
It's possible that normal blue tack can be used as an eraser. I've never used it and have only heard of it be used to stick lightweight things up on a wall. What I used back then and more recently was a product that had the words "kneaded eraser" on the label. One brand that I can think of is Staedtler; but, that company refers to its kneaded erasers as kneadable erasers. There is also Faber-Castell and come to think of it, I think my kneaded eraser is from Faber-Castell. When I first got it, it was the color of the blue eraser here: www.amazon.com/Faber-Castell-Kneaded-Eraser-Yellow-Blue/dp/B000GPI8OY I do remember the logo. The store where I got it is local to me; so, I always check there first before I order online.
Thanks for the cool review. I was wondering if you have ever tried electric erasers? I know some RU-vidrs really like the Derwent one, but I was wondering if you've ever tried it? Also, I was looking on eBay and saw some very inexpensive ($2) Asian versions and I was wondering if you could do a review on them? (If you do a search for "electric eraser", then sort by least expensive, they should be the top results-pastel colors: white, blue, pink, yellow)
+youngcou Hi and thank you for the message and questions. I try to avoid machines in any capacity, whether it's sharpeners or erasers. Mainly because they perform poorly and they can also ruin your drawings. I like hand-erasing because it keeps me closer to the work. For me it's like the difference between driving somewhere and walking. When I walk I almost always see many, many more things than when I drive to the same place. I don't know if that makes sense, but I hope so. - Marty
+Owings Art ah, I see. Thanks for the reply :) I totally understand, it's a personal choice. I truly appreciate your explanation. Moreover, thank you very much for your many amazing reviews and other videoed! Please keep up the great work
youngcou the electric erasers are more for creating high-lights than for erasing. They do a great job for high-lights on petals or the iris on an eye for example.
Aw man, after 8:28 I was hoping you would show the "after" pic so we could see how they compared. The pic you took of before you erased was so clear; it would've been perfect.
Thanks a bunch for making this video. Do you know of any eraser out there that I can use to erase mistakes that are made in (sometimes highly) detailed pencil drawings? I have subscribed, I look forward to your future videos! :-)
Hi AtleantisAngel98 - Well I use the Faber-Castell eraser for just about everything I do in pencil. Highly detailed areas may be more difficult because of fine angles or tight spaces or heavily worked lines so there's no guarantee that any eraser will work in those circumstances. I also use some pencil erasers sometimes if I need to get really, really fine. You could try that and see if it works for you. Thanks the question and for subscribing.
Nykki That sounds cool. I recently picked up something similar and it works great. I can't remember the name at the minute, but i'll look it up and post something about it.
Owings Art I got it in front of me right now. It's by Tombow and on it is says "mono zero elastomer eraser" and on the very top is the size 2.3. When I got it, the packaging was ALL in Japanese, it was crazy. It works great, it doesn't leave eraser dust really, it just kind of balls up and falls off in one go; it doesn't affect the eraser itself for the paper. I love it.
Don't even think about buying the Caran d'Ache Technik eraser anywhere else other than specialized online artstores. The price on one site I know but won't mention prices these at 7.00 a piece! And about the next round...I think we're due for a new eraser test. It is 2017. :)
There are several erasers that seem kinda popular amongst artists: 1. Uni Boxy Eraser 2. Pentel Hi-Polymer Ain Eraser (common and dust-gathering version) 3. Sakura Foam Eraser 4. Tombow Mono Eraser 5. Pilot Foam Eraser 6. Seed Radar (usual and colorful versions) I believe most of them act similar and can compete with Faber-Castell dust-free
One of them I'd like to see is Moo Professional Eraser. This brand is from Sou h Korea. Another is Tombow NP non PVC Eraser. Also try including one of the kneadable erasers that you can shape in any way you like. Finally there's one called Epure Maped...however I'm not sure if the manufacturer is the same as the Alvin - you'd have to check onbthat to be sure.
