I also believe another way in order to put a sketch onto a canvas is by using a glass surface and a lamp. So, I would tape the sketch to the back of the canvas and lay it flat on the glass surface and then put the lamp underneath the glass surface. The sketch should be visible enough to see, and then I would trace from there. But this video makes great points, so I'm also going to try this as well.
Yes! So glad you mentioned this...thats what I have done with stretched canvas, otherwise it will make the canvas sag when you press down hard on it with the pencil....On canvas board no worries about this.
OH MY GOSHHHH!!!! Thank you so much!!! I had a lovely sketch of a friend that I decided to put on a canvas but did not trust myself. This helped so much and worked so well. It looks stunning!!!!!!!
OH MY GOD THANKYOU SO MUCH! I did the whole painting but was having problems with the character's features and my whole painting could be spoiled but thanks for saving it. You're so perfect artist
Thanks Tim for the great transfer tip. I enjoyed the intro & exit clips on this video -- so did my cats who came barreling in to see what was up with the birds -- they like your cat too!
Graphite is good but black pastel is better and it washes off easily with a damp paper towel. I also use white pastel against dark backgrounds. For the transfer I use a hard pencil like 3H. Good video!
I've done this for years and it doesn't always turn out so good and with a canvas like he's using could stretch the canvas in that spot. The best way is to use tracing paper with your drawing on it and then use carbon paper under the sketch. You first place the tracing paper on the canvas and tape it down so it doesn't move then slide the carbon paper under it with the ink side down next to the canvas. Press lightly as you trace onto the canvas because you don't want to have dark ink on the canvas.
i used to hold it against the window and press really hard on my pencil or i would cut the shape out, but definately gonna try this technique. love your videos man!
Thank you so much!! I Bought 12 canvases for my 6yr old daughter's birthday party and didn't know how to transfer the drawings I printed. I was actually planning on buying some pre-done ones. This was really helpful. Thanks again :)🙃
i use this technique quite a lot in my signwriting job...but i use chalk on the back instead of pencil, because sometimes i find that the pencil leaves some nasty smudge marks that i find very hard to remove or paint over. also if you decide that you need to make changes once its on the canvas it far easier to remove chalk...once its how you want it you could go over it again in pencil but i dont bother to. thanks for your videos...cheers tim
Cool. I was looking for something like this only. I did painting on drawing book and wanted to transfer that without any feature changes on canvas. Was worrying how to do that. Thanks a lot.
I used to do this all the time when I was a child, before you could Google anything or go to UA-cam. It just made sense to me to do it this way. Sometimes I was drawing every day and would do this so I wouldn't haven't to redraw things.
I have seen videos that show how to transfer a printed image on a canvas. Is there some way to do this while also maintaining the ability to paint on that canvas?
Thanks for a proper how to video. I don't know how many times I look for a "how to" and their is no speaking. Might as well learn from my dog at that point. Your videos are great
Thank you for showing us this technique. I am a new person at all of this. You make it look so simple which is what I needed right now. I drew the head of a horse but am not sure which to do next; paint the canvas first, put the horse in and highlight the canvas around the horse with my painting or what? Can you direct me here?
I use this for all of my painting since I do many revisions before I settled on my final image...if I were to draw directly onto the canvas then I would have a mess of erased lines that would never totally go away and eraser marks too. This is kind of a pain when you do the whole image this way but it has to be this way for me.
Thanks for sharing. This is exactly what I was hoping to find. I'm no artist by a long shot. I bought a canvas, and a coloring book. I want to paint in a background, and put one of the pictures from the book on my painting. Then paint the picture. All just for fun.
Used to do that as kids. ☺ What do you think about store bought graphite copy paper (not sure if they are called that, but they used to use them to make more copies of text done on typewriter
What would graphite paper do with do under and must I have a pattern with it or you create your own pattern around instead of using a book with a pattern do you use graphite or tracing paper or both on top of my pictures I drawn on white paper or put the paper on graphite
I think i have an idea that could work better if you don't want to ruin the drawing, like if it's an old drawing that you care too much about to mess it up. First you transfer very smoothly your drawing to a bakery release paper (because it is very transparent), then you put that new drawing over a Carbon Paper, used so much in offices, so you don't need to scratch that much the back of the drawing. Finally you do the second transfer to the canvas by drawing over the bakery paper and the carbon paper. I think it's the best way to preserve the original drawing and you can be really precise
You put the paper on top of the drawing, because it's very transparent you will be able to see through, then you copy it, but just the general form, the important parts of the drawing. aline
João Maurício Oh yes I get it thank you. But I have another question. If I transfer my sketch to canvasusing carbon paper, can I then just start painting over it with acryl, without the sketch running out. Sorry for my lack of english, but I hope you can understand what I mean.
The carbon paper will work just like common pencil. It's basically graphite. If you use thin layers of acrylic paint it may show through, but it will disappear after a couple of paint layers on top of it. It's not recommended if you are gonna paint it using watercolors though. I hope I got it right aline
Thank you very much :) My sketches on canvas always gets lines which are too thick somehow, and now I am going to draw people, so I hope it will work. I am going to try at least :D
I find that my drawings are almost always not to the scale of my painting, so I scan my drawing into the computer. Then I can scale the drawing to the exact size I need, plus it does not destroy the original.
Actual tutorial starts at 3:07
ur welcome
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thanks, mate!
Gosh, thank you. I coulda done without the lecture first.
Jesus thank you lmao
CartWheelzOfRage thx
For the love of Christ--this is torture.
I also believe another way in order to put a sketch onto a canvas is by using a glass surface and a lamp. So, I would tape the sketch to the back of the canvas and lay it flat on the glass surface and then put the lamp underneath the glass surface. The sketch should be visible enough to see, and then I would trace from there.
But this video makes great points, so I'm also going to try this as well.
oh wow thanks for that
Ysabelle Angeli thank you. i was looking for another way to do it
You can trace right off your computer screen. Can even enlarge it too.
Ysabelle Angeli much better way 🤙🏽 especially for more detailed artwork thanks
Ysabelle Angeli I'll try that
bonus tip: put a hard cover book or something solid behind the canvas when you trace it
ty for this tip
Thanks for the tip
Yes! So glad you mentioned this...thats what I have done with stretched canvas, otherwise it will make the canvas sag when you press down hard on it with the pencil....On canvas board no worries about this.
Guys if this is to much for you, just tape your drawing on the back and have some lighting so u can see
You literally just saved my life!
OMG YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!! 😍
Girlll your so smart!!!!!
I do that it helps a lot
Thank you
I can tell this painting is SO meaningful to you. Beautiful. Thanks for the idea!
Anyone else loving the way his painting turned out 😱😍
Ik I’m 3 years late but I love how it turned out as well 😭🤣
OH MY GOSHHHH!!!! Thank you so much!!! I had a lovely sketch of a friend that I decided to put on a canvas but did not trust myself. This helped so much and worked so well. It looks stunning!!!!!!!
Used this to transfer a silhouette onto a very detailed background and it worked flawlessly! Thank you!!!
OH MY GOD THANKYOU SO MUCH! I did the whole painting but was having problems with the character's features and my whole painting could be spoiled but thanks for saving it. You're so perfect artist
Thanks Tim for the great transfer tip. I enjoyed the intro & exit clips on this video -- so did my cats who came barreling in to see what was up with the birds -- they like your cat too!
I wouldn´t have never imagined this technique!! simple and useful!!
Graphite is good but black pastel is better and it washes off easily with a damp paper towel. I also use white pastel against dark backgrounds. For the transfer I use a hard pencil like 3H. Good video!
Thank you for sharing! That's awesome
Very helpful , thank you . LOVE your painting and the reminder to keep drawing .
I've done this for years and it doesn't always turn out so good and with a canvas like he's using could stretch the canvas in that spot. The best way is to use tracing paper with your drawing on it and then use carbon paper under the sketch. You first place the tracing paper on the canvas and tape it down so it doesn't move then slide the carbon paper under it with the ink side down next to the canvas. Press lightly as you trace onto the canvas because you don't want to have dark ink on the canvas.
Sheri, if you're worried about the canvas stretching you can put some support (I use a piece of MDF) under it.
i used to hold it against the window and press really hard on my pencil or i would cut the shape out, but definately gonna try this technique.
love your videos man!
Man that was a cool thing to know...that painting at the end is amazing 💚
Thank you so much!! I Bought 12 canvases for my 6yr old daughter's birthday party and didn't know how to transfer the drawings I printed. I was actually planning on buying some pre-done ones. This was really helpful. Thanks again :)🙃
That was so helpful! I can finish my painting now ♥
Thank you! you just saved me a trip to the art supply store.
thanks for this, I had been wanting to draw on a canvas without ay mistakes but really helpful watching this!
perfect, just what I am having trouble with, thanks Tim!
You are awesome and you inspire me a lot!!! Thank you!!!
i use this technique quite a lot in my signwriting job...but i use chalk on the back instead of pencil, because sometimes i find that the pencil leaves some nasty smudge marks that i find very hard to remove or paint over. also if you decide that you need to make changes once its on the canvas it far easier to remove chalk...once its how you want it you could go over it again in pencil but i dont bother to. thanks for your videos...cheers tim
reminds me of when I used to do this with Crayola!
I use oil pastels
Ordinary chalk like wat teachers use ?
this worked, it turned out really well :) thanks
you saved me 3 hours of my life in guess work
Cool. I was looking for something like this only. I did painting on drawing book and wanted to transfer that without any feature changes on canvas. Was worrying how to do that. Thanks a lot.
I used to do this all the time when I was a child, before you could Google anything or go to UA-cam. It just made sense to me to do it this way. Sometimes I was drawing every day and would do this so I wouldn't haven't to redraw things.
Thank you! Fantastic way to aid my young kiddos in transferring their drawings onto canvas for family gifts!
Love this idea!!!
I have seen videos that show how to transfer a printed image on a canvas. Is there some way to do this while also maintaining the ability to paint on that canvas?
This is actual really awesome !! 👏🏼
Thank you so much for sharing this technique it helped me a lot.
Thanks for a proper how to video. I don't know how many times I look for a "how to" and their is no speaking. Might as well learn from my dog at that point.
Your videos are great
Just what i needed!! Thank you so very much.
holy did i need this thank you so much.
Nobody's gonna ask how much time you spent trying to perfecting the sketch anyways...... So tracing is a life saver for me😅😅😅😅😅
I was just thinking about doing this. Thank you for showing us the way!
Wow bro thanks. We did this in school but I kept wondering how I did. Thanks for reviving great work
Thank you ! Worked out great .
Wow that was so cool!
You saved my life!
I used to do this when I was a kid. I can’t believe I forgot about this.
Thank you for showing us this technique. I am a new person at all of this. You make it look so simple which is what I needed right now. I drew the head of a horse but am not sure which to do next; paint the canvas first, put the horse in and highlight the canvas around the horse with my painting or what? Can you direct me here?
thank you so much, it really helped me
Works amazingly thanks
Bro skipped a hundred steps HAHA from that outline to a full painting. So good 🤣
The painting looks amazing 💜💜
I did this with the Rolling Stones logo and it came out good.
Thank you! I understand this much better now
Thank you man much needed
Thank you, glad it helped!
I use this for all of my painting since I do many revisions before I settled on my final image...if I were to draw directly onto the canvas then I would have a mess of erased lines that would never totally go away and eraser marks too. This is kind of a pain when you do the whole image this way but it has to be this way for me.
THANK YOU SO MUCH🔥👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks for sharing. This is exactly what I was hoping to find. I'm no artist by a long shot. I bought a canvas, and a coloring book. I want to paint in a background, and put one of the pictures from the book on my painting. Then paint the picture. All just for fun.
Thank you sir.... made it easy
that really helped cause i"ve got a art project
Used to do that as kids. ☺ What do you think about store bought graphite copy paper (not sure if they are called that, but they used to use them to make more copies of text done on typewriter
That helped me a lot! xD Thx!
I usually use oil paint(needs a little dry) instead of pencil. It works the same way, and the image stays clean of a pencil
Thank you for your advice too! Yes! It works!!! :) Спасибо! ;)
Cool! can you tell me how dry the oil has to be? And do you use any mediums in the oil first or?
Great video thank you
This is very helpful thank you
I like my original sketch i want to keep it in pencil but try to paint another copy as well with acrylic. Hopefully this works
Nice tricks. Thank you so much.
Love this
The way you are doing it will transfer the front to that canvas, put a blank sheet under this to protect your canvas. thanks
thanks this helped me alot 👍
Thank you so much for the video and information
Thank you very much! 🙏🏾🙏🏾💕💕😍😍🙌🏾🐢
Great tip. Thanks
You have literally created the real world equivalent of “copying and pasting”
thank you!
I love your cat (I love birds too)
What would graphite paper do with do under and must I have a pattern with it or you create your own pattern around instead of using a book with a pattern do you use graphite or tracing paper or both on top of my pictures I drawn on white paper or put the paper on graphite
How did you do the background? Masking fluid on the figures?
OMG THIS HELP SO MUCH 😁😁 thank you!!
Thank you for watching! Glad it could help!
Yeah like it and thank you foe the trick !. From i know how to do it.
I think i have an idea that could work better if you don't want to ruin the drawing, like if it's an old drawing that you care too much about to mess it up. First you transfer very smoothly your drawing to a bakery release paper (because it is very transparent), then you put that new drawing over a Carbon Paper, used so much in offices, so you don't need to scratch that much the back of the drawing. Finally you do the second transfer to the canvas by drawing over the bakery paper and the carbon paper. I think it's the best way to preserve the original drawing and you can be really precise
João Maurício How do you transfer your drawing to bakery release paper?
You put the paper on top of the drawing, because it's very transparent you will be able to see through, then you copy it, but just the general form, the important parts of the drawing. aline
João Maurício Oh yes I get it thank you. But I have another question. If I transfer my sketch to canvasusing carbon paper, can I then just start painting over it with acryl, without the sketch running out. Sorry for my lack of english, but I hope you can understand what I mean.
The carbon paper will work just like common pencil. It's basically graphite. If you use thin layers of acrylic paint it may show through, but it will disappear after a couple of paint layers on top of it. It's not recommended if you are gonna paint it using watercolors though. I hope I got it right aline
Thank you very much :) My sketches on canvas always gets lines which are too thick somehow, and now I am going to draw people, so I hope it will work. I am going to try at least :D
i use animator style. tape the top edge to the painting and lift paper up down up down...like tracing. Works for any photo, drawing.
Thank you !!!!
good points you make & clearly understandable
agreed
The end result , wow.
Don’t forget to continue working on your drawing skills, guys!
ThankYou!
Charcoal is much quick ❤️
how are you doing it when you need to also make it larger?
I find that my drawings are almost always not to the scale of my painting, so I scan my drawing into the computer. Then I can scale the drawing to the exact size I need, plus it does not destroy the original.
really nice
Transfer paper works the best!
Thank you so much sir
Help do u transfer your graphite image before or after gesso ???
This really would be great if my sketch hadn't been ripped, mended, taped, glued, redrawn, ripped again, and amazingly detailed. :(
THANK YOU KIND SIR\
Thanks!
i want to know which tracing paper that can transfer on to a profile gallery 40x40 canvas .? not sure how to do this .?
Great work! Will the same technique work if I have to transfer some words or sentences on canvas? Do I have to flip the paper?
You don't have to reverse - it will show up exactly like the original image.
thanks for sharing with us
thank you :)
can i do this but trace it on a bag like leather one?
So you're saying this could possibly work on an already darker acrylic painted background?
I am an artist and its not hard to just draw freehand. ALL the best from Australia.
The birds and the cat stole the show.
+bugisami That's just mean! Very funny, but mean. :-D
This really works
Thank you for watching!