Would spraying hairspray on a drawing stop it from rubbing off onto another piece of paper?

Question

I need to stop the shaded drawings in my sketch book from rubbing of onto other pieces of paper.

Answer 1

Yes it does, My better half done an art degree and she used the old hairspray techniaue to good effect

Answer 2

Yes, it works as a fixative just like the expensive stuff that you can buy in art shops but at a fraction of the price!!
if you make sure that you dont spray too much or too close other wise you dampen the paper and ruin your work. Here is alittle bit of advice that I found on the web

Is it acceptable to use hairspray as a cheap fixative for pastel or charcoal, or should you never use anything other than artist's quality fixative? Just what are the differences between art spray fixative and hairspray? About.com's Chemistry Guide, Dr Anne Helmenstine, has an answer for artists.
A.
To some extent, you get what you pay for. In hairspray, you can pay a lot for a well-recognized name or for a fragrance that smells nice. For an art spray fixative, you are paying for even dispersion of the spray and a good acrylate coating that will preserve your piece.

Some hairsprays will have the same ingredients as art fixatives, but be wary of the dispersal system (spray). There may be some excellent hairsprays that will serve your purpose. They may or may not cost less than the art spray.

Also, be forewarned that many hairsprays contain hair conditioners, which is usually another name for a natural or synthetic oil. These conditioners could leave grease spots on your art. The oils to avoid are dimethicone, silicone (anyone pretty much), anything 'oil' or 'lubricant', vitamin A or E (both are oil-based), anything ending with 'glycol'.

Answer 3

I just used hairspray to get INK out of cotton clothes by dabbing it out with paper towel after spraying on. So I don't think hairspray would stop it from rubbing onto paper.

Answer 4

In my art & design class at school we were always taught to spray hairspray on pictures where we had used chalk becuase this would stop the chalk from rubbing off....im not sure if it works for everything as we only used it when we used chalk...but you could give it ago.

Answer 5

Yep!!! I have a art degree and have use this many times to keep the Drawings from rubbing again each other. The hairspray technique has a good effect!!

Waho

Answer 6

My former art teacher told us that he finished a bunch of graphite drawings for a short deadline commercial illustration commission, and was very pleased with them. Being concerned about them getting damaged before they could be put to use by the client, he grabbed his fixative and spent a half hour fixing them good.

Then, he looked at the label of the can as he set it down: It was Spray Mount he had grabbed by mistake.

True story.

Answer 7

yes it dose protect the drawings. the hair spray creates a thin layer over the medium and protects the material.
If you heap a load of spray onto the paper it will cause it it wrinkle, so use a few light coats instead, ie spray it once, let it dry then spray another. also make sure your spray dosent turn the page yellow.

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

Yes it will help, it won't protect your drawing 100%, but it does a pretty good job. You can even go back and add more shading to the sprayed drawing if you wanted too.