How Do You Trace Using Only Tracing Paper And Pencil Lead For Visual Artists?
• Place a picture on a flat, smooth surface and secure it with tape. • Lay the tracing paper over it and secure it with tape. • Using a pencil, trace the picture with as much or little detail as you need. • Once you have finished tracing the picture, remove the picture from underneath the tracing paper. • Turn the tracing paper over so that the tracing is face down and the blank side of the paper is facing up. • Coat the WHOLE blank side of the paper with graphite (lead) using your pencil. • To coat the blank side of the tracing paper, hold your pencil almost completely sideways with the lead touching the paper and move your pencil lead back and forth to create an even coat of gray or black surface. • Obtain a new surface, such as drawing paper, to transfer your drawing. • Place the drawing paper on a flat, smooth surface and secure it with tape. • Place the tracing paper gently on top of the drawing paper with the graphite surface face down. You may secure it in place as well. • Trace
