Summary: Different transfer papers require different amounts of pressure when tracing. Learn a few options for tracing images from a professional artist in this free painting video.
Cody Davis earned his second-degree black belt in 2006. He is a great teacher of the Shaolin/Kenpo arts. Sifu Davis has been a student of the arts for more than 13 years.read more
"If you don't have a computer or Photoshop then what, best way to so it is just run this through a copy machine and you can enlarge it or reduce it to any size you need. There's another way to do it too and that is to get tracing paper which is sort of an onion skin type paper that you'll place over this and then you'll trace through; trace right on top of this with the tracing paper, I used to do it that way but it works out either way. Now we're not really trying to get all the strands of hair in there because they're going to be put in with color; we're just trying to find where we place the color on the paper by doing this so it doesn't have to be extremely detailed but I like around the eyes to make sure that it is more detailed than not because that makes it look like a person more, o.k. The shape of the nose is very critical along with the shape of the outside of the face and we want to check it; o.k. we're not there yet because sometimes we leave out things an sometimes we do a pretty good job it's a matter of different transfer papers have different amounts of pressure that are required so each, when you change from different brands remember that."