Art Ideas for Inspiration: Tracing & Layering

Video Transcript

"Now tracing paper is your friend and it can help you first really find out what a basic shape is like so that you can trace it from the picture. Sometimes you have to lift this up because it is not always clear if you've got a lot of texture going on. It's a little difficult to tell but you can kind of lift it up and keeping going like that and that helps you see oh, I've got a shape like that and then there is a shape over here like that and I've got another shape over here and it kind of helps you see what is actually, it simplifies things for you and takes away all the texture so that you can really concentrate on what the major shapes are doing. So tracing paper can help you when you are thinking about this that way and it can also help you in enlarging actually, if you can't get to the drug store and enlarge this and you really want to make a bigger picture I'm just going to do a real simple one. I'm just going to draw this in quarters and I'm going to pretend that this is a quarter. Here's the quarter of my piece of paper so that I can enlarge with this section so I've got this here and it goes here and you can again enlarge this and again enlarging can often tell you and give you information that you might not have seen otherwise and help you decide if this is really working out for you, if this is what you actually want to be seeing or if you need to you know, can this photograph and move on."