MTG Salvation

Quote from Kingyoshi1989

So what type of erasers am i suppose to be using?

I bought some dodgy erasers, the most expensive school erasers i could find, gum erasers and some weird ones from the art depo.

None of them are affecting the cards at all.

Is there something I should be looking out for on packaging or something?

I could not find the erasers that are recommended here (I think mars plastic ink erasers, it's in another post), but the one I found at the art store that worked was called FACTIS M30. It is made in spain, is white-ish/gray, and is split into two halves- one is just a standard hq pencil eraser like I used to use in drafting class, and the other half is darker and much more coarse (harder too). The hard side is the ink erasing side and it works well.

Quote from Plaguefather

So, with the new border changes, addition of holograms on rares, mythics, etc... How will this affect the altering community? I'm kind of panicking right now...

Doesn't seem like that big a deal. Probably have to work around the foily bit, but other than that it seems like there is nothing a clever artist can't deal with. In the words of the His Holiness Timothy Gun- "Make it work!"

Quote from Scarth

Question:
I'm using Nail Polish Remover, which contains acetone, to remove ink form the cards I want to alter. It's been fine so far, but I often find that I have to rub quite vigorously to get the result I want, which then damages the 'card' of the card.

Any ideas?

The advice I have been given is to skip that method of removal all together unless you can get 100% Acetone from a chemical supplier. Nail polish remover is not pure acetone so not only are you having to work much harder to get the ink off, but you are also rubbing all sorts of other garbage all over your card.

I have been told the eraser method is better, or if you are blanking the whole card you should just get a foil an peel off the art.

Quote from Wolf_Cub82

I used to use Krylon Kamar spray varnish, but found that I didn't like it overly much. Then I found a paint on varnish by the same brand of paints I use. I was wondering if anyone else painted their varnishes on by brush?

I am not a great artist, more of a crafter, but I have used paint on varnish and I am not sure it would be good for a high quality alter. I could not apply it without leaving brush marks when it had dried. My project was mostly for myself and testing so it did not matter as much, but I would not want to use it on a quality piece of art.

I am a pretty janky artist, but I wanted to try some line art, pen and ink with hash shading kinda stuff in B&W and I figure I got enough garbage cards to try things on. Anyway, the first post gives a good idea of pens to use but I was wondering if it is better to blank a surface or to put a neutral (white) base coat down to draw on? Does the answer change if the alter will cross into other parts of the card? Also, back in my youth in my industrial design classes I seem to remember a liquid mask that could be painted on for complex edges, is something like that good for these types of applications if only part of the art will be altered?