how to transfer a drawing onto canvas without transfer paper

Learn 2 easy means to transfer your drawings/letters from paper onto canvas for a painting.

Looking for an easy mode how to transfer your cartoon onto canvas?

In this post I volition bear witness you ii ways to transfer them! These methods too applies to the FREE printable stencils I provide in my painting tutorials.

Why Transfer Your Drawing?

Having a traced design of your drawing (on sheet) before you offset painting serves as a guideline of where your colors should go and what your shapes should wait like.

That manner you can focus on the painting part- without worrying if your proportions of your discipline are too large or besides pocket-size.

This makes painting process less stressful and more enjoyable – particularly for beginners.

And you won't exist any less of an artist- even experienced artist apply these methods!

Let's look at the most popular and fastest method first…

Full Length Step-by Step Video Tutorial on YouTube

Click the paradigm below for the full video tutorial

Method 1: Transfer a Drawing using Transfer Paper / Carbon paper

You tin can get an cheap pack of transfer paper and use a sheet between your paper sketch and canvass (or wood) to etch in your design.

This is the quickest method, that doesn't crave prepping your paper. It also provides the sharpest transfer.

Instructions

(You can sentinel the full length YouTube tutorial here)

1.Place the transfer paper onto canvas (or forest)

2. Put your paper sketch (or printable stencil) on top of the transfer paper

three. Using sharpened pencil (or mechanical pencil) trace over your paper design.

4.Lift abroad the tracing newspaper and printable stencil and yours canvas should now have an outline of your drawing

5. Pigment / color / fill in as desired.

Method 2: Transfer A Drawing Without Transfer Paper (pencil method)

This method requires a elementary unleaded pencil (which you probably have at home). This method works similarly to the tracing paper method above, but it requires prepping your paper before hand.

Cheque out the step by step instructions below.

Too, if y'all'd prefer to watch this tutorial via a video, cheque out the full length video tutorial here.

Step 1

Take your paper sketch or printable stencil and lay it downward on the table with design side down

Footstep 2

Take your pencil and color over meridian the drawing (on the back side of the paper)

Stride 3

Flip the paper, design side upwardly at present and identify it onto your canvas or wood panel.

Step 4

Now taking a sharp pencil (or mechanical pencil) trace over your design. This will etch it onto the sail

Stride 5

Lift off the paper design and your traced pencil pattern will exist transferred onto your canvas or wood panel. Paint or fill in as desired!

FREE Sunflower Stencil Printable

If you'd like to try to transfer over the sunflower photograph, you tin utilise the free printable below. You tin as well follow the step by footstep painting instructions in how to paint a sunflower tutorial.

How to print: Correct click on image below, salve as jpg to your computer and print out on your printer.