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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-05-10 11:31 AM
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11. Having no talent whatsoever, I used to do pencil drawing every bit as good as these. My method...
I used my slide projector to project a negative onto a sheet of drawing paper. Working in a darkened room, I would then use a pencil to darken the light areas until I made the whole page look uniformly black. When I turned off the projector and turned on the room lights I would have a nearly perfect pencil drawing of the image on the negative. In other words, I did with a pencil what photo paper did chemically. Wherever the negative was light, I made the paper dark, and wherever the negative was dark, I left the paper light.

You have to use a black and white negative. Using a positive there's no way to judge when you have applied enough pencil to any area of the paper.

It's a beautiful way to make pencil drawings with no talent whatsoever.

Here's a sample:


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