How to Transfer Drawings With a Light Box

Video Transcript

"I'm Sue Rose with Expert Village and today we're showing you the different uses for a light box. I always, when I go to do a painting, I always do, I paint it on a piece of poster board. The original sketch, I did in pencil so that I can make any corrections or alterations on the piece of poster board before I put it on my expensive water color paper. I do it in pencil to make my corrections and then when those are done I go over that with a sharpie or a magic marker. I always save my original drawings so that I can do it again in warm or cool colors. So, today I'm going to show you, step by step, how to use my light box. I take my piece of poster board with my drawing on it and I take my piece of water color paper and I take my art pencil, a drawing pencil, a four drawing pencil, and in the light box I begin by going over the shapes that I had drawn on the original piece of poster board. I go lightly with my pencil and then I use an art gum eraser to erase it when I'm finished. Another good use for a light box, and I will not completely continue with this, but if I want to I have some oranges here, in different shapes, and if I want to add something else to this and I've got the bowl here, all I need to do is take this piece of paper, move that same bowl over here and I can repeat my sketch up here with another bowl by moving my sketch around under the light box. Stay tuned for our next segment on how to use a light box."