Originally posted by Julie
frustration would be a word that described me last night...I was doing this art project thing of mine....I have to draw a child's face....I cut the picture out of a magazine and now have to render the thing in pencil 9 by 12 inches
only I got about a 1/8 the way through and happened to put the eyes too far up.....so I had to start again.....
other than that...life's been a bundle of happiness
This probably is not useful anymore to you(since this thread is older), but what works best for me is to take a transparency paper (like used on over head projectors) and make in the same size as the picture your drawing from, then draw lines vertically and horizontally on the transparency to make blocks, you will have to measure correctly so it will scale to the size you want to drawing to be,then on the paper you plan to draw on make the same number of boxes. They might be bigger or smaller according to how you want to resize it but make sure you still have the same number. that is important. then take the transparency and lay it on top of the original pic and you find its easier to draw to scale because you just need to count boxes and fill it in as what you see in the original pic. and then after your finished you can always erase the lines. I can show you an example of art I did using this technique. we had to take a mag add of a person and redraw it. I had to enlarge it and I used this method and it worked.
