Eraser Drawing

Last week my craft student had bought herself some new erasers, hard, medium, soft and a black one. She asked me how she could use them so I decided to show her how to build a picture with erasing.

She said she couldn't draw so I made this activity to lure her into it with relative security of success.

You need:
cartridge paper
2B lead/graphite pencil
erasers soft, kneadable and hard
stencils

Start by creating a patch of pencil shaded paper.

Then choose a stencil of your choice and lay it over the patch, erase through the stencil.

Now trace around the white bits. I didn't do all the lines inside the shape, I just went with what I thought looked good. 

Then add some shading around the shape, if you stick to one side only you get a shadow effect. 

I added some shading inside the leaf shape too.

Here are some examples we did in the craft lesson. 

I used various stencils here and with more shading you can get some realistic and surreal effects.