Dumbfounded

[rinue]

I've been drawing a lot of storyboards lately, which for me means sketchy pencil drafts which are later inked in and clarified - following which the pencil part is erased, never to be seen by god nor man. Consequently, I picked up a new eraser on Thursday, which I have just gotten around to unwrapping. I bought it because it was the cheapest one in the store, and the store was an art store so I figured I was safe from anything awful (by which I mean smudgy and streaky). Being an art store, however, even the cheap eraser was fancy - a Staedtler rasoplast combi.

It has a blue bit on it which I couldn't make sense of. I intitially thought it was part of the packaging, but no. Different material; different texture. Presumably this is the "combi" in the eraser name. Today, I looked the blue bit up on the website.

It erases pen.

Not erasable pen.

Just pen.

I tried it out.

What does this mean for the world that I can erase pen?

Comments

Pen has been erasable for a long time.

[bluezybunny.livejournal.com]

Pen has been erasable for a long time. Most times it's a noticeable difference, though. For example, you couldn't erase the numbers off of a check without smudging the background ink or on contracts without smudging the line and the X. It's sort of a self-correcting problem.

-Quip

Re: Pen has been erasable for a long time.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Man, I miss the days of acid-based ink. Not that I was ever around for them, since they were also the days of quill pens. And not that I like using quill pens - they're very frustrating. But, ah, the permanence of vellum and ink that burned itself onto the page, but which also corrodes metal pen nibs.

What's with the Quip? When and why the change?

-Romie

Quip

[bluezybunny.livejournal.com]

Quip is a cool name. Also, I'm getting tired of being compared to furs.

-Quip

[valancy.livejournal.com]

That kind of freaks me out.