How to Trace a Drawing

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Jacklyn LaFlamme. I'm a professional artist with JacklynLaFlamme.com. In this clip, I'm going to show you how to trace a drawing. You'll need some black markers to draw with, two paper clips. You'll need some tracing paper. So, the way we trace a drawing is I have a photograph and I'm laying my tracer paper on top and you can see that I put two paper clips so that the tracing paper doesn't move. You can start anywhere in the drawing and just start tracing out your lines just like this. So, in this particular drawing were tracing out some buildings and the most important thing is to keep the paper still because you really, really don't want the tracing paper to move around because that will effect your tracing. You want to keep as still as possible so that all your lines are going to be in the right place and you can just see I'm tracing the outer edges of all the buildings that are in my original photograph and you just go and you trace and as I said the importance of keeping the drawing flat and not moving is what's going to give you a really great trace. This has been Jacklyn LaFlamme. Thank you for watching."