A telltale sign of a professional artist is the ability to render a neat, clean artwork. Yet, quite often in early stages of the creative process, a potential masterpiece becomes irreparably smudged, soiled, or damaged. This wonderful simple technique shows you how experienced artists transfer the primary components of a drawing (or other image) to a fresh clean sheet of paper. As an aside, this technique is unknown to many students of art, but is certainly not new; in fact, it can be traced (pun intended) back to the great masters of the Renaissance.

I studied before teapot like other lessons, but I write nowadays my comments.. nicely work

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With avatars in .gif everythink is OK.

Most people would use a lightbox

Yes that is true, when you are transferring your image onto thin paper. This technique is handy when you are not able to use the light box method - especially if you have drawn your original image on ordinary bond paper and you then wish to transfer the image onto quality 300gsm watercolour paper ready for painting. The light box will not work in this case as the paper is too thick to see through.

Useful lesson.

Really good trick - will help those students who aren't so confident with their drawing skills to practice their line drawing and still achieve a clean image that they are pleased with at the end.

Thank you, will try this out!

I tried this method with a portion of a drawing I was struggling with and found that tracing even a small section saved tons of time and helped relieve the frustration I was feeling. Once the problem was solved it was smooth sailing to the finished picture.

Haha, amazing! It didn't work all that well for me (just because anything over beginner level in drawing is COMPLETELY over my head...I'm just a sketcher of nature) but the effect that some of my friends had by it was awesome. Good step-by-step approach...I understood the entire thing...and that's really saying something.

Keep drawing, Cindy Wider, because you do amazing work!

--Nicole Bender

Pastel Drawing

Do you have anything on pastel drawings...?

Thank You,
Lise King