help restoring a pencil drawing?

Question

I've got a pencil drawing, in a big art pad. It was being worked on on the floor, and the dog ran across it and scratched the surface of the sketch and smeared some of the graphite. Is there any way to restore it? I'm looking for a way to erase the graphite scratched into the paper and re-shade...

Answer 1

humm...I am not exactly sure what your dog did...are the scratches like the paper surface has been torn or did he/she leave grooves...

...if your dog left grooves ..you could try...after you remove all the smudges that you can .... turning over the paper and working from the back... ..make it till the paper can't move around and cause more smudges... take like a spoon or something with a smooth surface and basically iron the area out smooth...once the paper is smooth you should have any trouble removing the smudges.....

now...if the paper surface got torn a little..this is tricky...I don't really know if it can be got back to what you originally had...with the surface being a different texture now....your best bet might be to try and shade around these areas and blend it till its not noticeable....

sorry I couldn't be more help.......

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Use multiple pencils of varying hardness. Google what pencil hardness is. You can use a box cutter to cut the lead at an angle for varying width lines. Don't cut yourself though. You can also just rub the pencil down on another page of paper too. Just to it at an angle. You can buy traditional pencils of different hardness or sketching sets at really decent prices or even just buy different mechanical pencil lead to fill pencils you already have.

Answer 4

Try an art gum eraser, they work a lot better than any normal erasers that generally smear the graphite more or leave additional residue on the artwork.

Answer 5

erasing it with something like an artgum eraser might work, otherwise there isn't anything else I know of