pencil marks
Erasable gray lines
Pencil marks are the visible traces left when a pencil moves across a surface—the lines, shadings, notations, or scribbles made with graphite or colored pencil.
The term often implies something preliminary or erasable: The editor's pencil marks covered the manuscript.
In art, pencil marks may be deliberate strokes worth preserving; in finished documents, they're usually meant to be removed.
- graphiteCrystalline carbon allotrope
- number twoDeputy or runner-up
- eraserMark removal tool
- smudgeUnclear dirty mark
- sketchHasty informal drawing
scribble · shading · lead · strokes · crosshatch · faint · paper · drawing · doodle · trace · lines · notation · margin · draft · bubble sheet · test anxiety · faded · rubbed
- smudges & marksfingerprints, thumbprints
- bookstoresbookshelves, bookstores, bookshops, booksellers, indie bookstores
- solving strategieselimination, process of elimination, trial and error, guess and check, pattern recognition
- book damagewater damage, torn pages, loose pages, cracked spine, broken spine
- Scribblesdoodle, scrawl, scribble, squiggle, scratch
pencil marksink stains
Permanent marks from writing fluid
permanent marker · indelible ink · permanent ink · pen marks · tattoo ink
pencil marksindelible ink
Pigment resisting removal
tattoo · engraving · etching · permanent marker · waterproof ink
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