Outline<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\nGetting the outline\u00a0<\/strong>and features onto your 11″ x 17″ sheet of paper can be done in several ways.
\nThree methods are described here. You need to select the one which is best for you. Have a look at each. Method 1. requires a projector which you may not have.<\/p>\nMethod 1. Projecting<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n1. The method I use mostly is to project an image to the size I want (10 inches from the top of the head to the chin) onto a wall on which I have previously attached my paper. I can only do this after dark as it is clearest when there is no other light. I then lightly pencil round the projected face, hair, shoulders, and all the facial features and shadow limits. Of course, this requires a projector which you may not have. The one I use cost about $20.<\/p>\n
However, I will describe some other methods not requiring a projector.<\/p>\n
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Method 2. Dot Transfer<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nGet a digitally enlarged color photocopy made to the 10″ high face size you want. Work out the enlargement needed beforehand. For example, if the face in your photo is 5″ tall, and your drawing is to be 10″, then the enlargement %age is (10 \u00f7 5) x 100 = 200%. Most color copiers can enlarge to 400%. Because it is digitally enlarged the sharpness of the print is far superior to a regular photocopy which can only go to 146% and requires repeated enlargements and each time it gets less sharp.<\/p>\n
With your paper taped onto a drawing board (or any flat board that you can tilt), tape a sheet of carbon paper (or two 8 1\/2″ x 11″ sheets taped together) then tape the enlarged color copy centrally over the top of the carbon paper, making sure you get it vertically too. With a pencil dot around the hair outline and main locks, also the face features, with a dot about every 1\/4″. Carefully repeat with the eyes, mouth, and all edges and changes of shaded areas, with dots about every 1\/8″. Do it fairly lightly, because you don’t want heavy black marks to remove later.<\/p>\n
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Method 3. By Measurement<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nThis is more convenient if you have a drawing board with a tee square. But they are not essential. You just need to be inventive.<\/p>\n
We are going to draw the face approximately 10″ high. Your still photo will probably be smaller than that. We shall enlarge it as we draw it. We need to determine what the enlargement ratio will be. This is quite simply done by measuring the height of the face on the photo and do the following sum. 10″ divided by the height of the face on the photo equals the ratio. If the photo face is 5″ high (as in the example below) then the enlargement ratio is 10 \u00f7 5 = 2. We will multiply (on the calculator) each dimension by 2. Of course, in practice, this will more likely be 2.684 but if you are a dab hand with the calculator you only key this in once and then you can keep this in memory)<\/p>\n
Tape a sheet of 11″ x 17″ paper centrally on your board. Alongside it tape a good same-size photocopy of your reference photo. Above it, tape a calculator to the board. (This will save you having to continuously put the ruler down)<\/p>\n
Place a dot in the center of the nose on your reference picture. Rule a horizontal line across to your drawing sheet from this nose dot. Place a dot on this line in the center of your drawing sheet. Using a set-square draw on the reference picture an angled line from the nose dot to the R.H eye. Measure the length of this line. Use the calculator to multiply this distance by the enlargement ratio (2 in our example)<\/p>\n
Draw an equivalent line at the same angle (nose to the eye) on your drawing sheet. Measure off the enlarged distance of the eye along this line from the nose dot. (The figure you’ve just obtained on the calculator) You have thus found the position of the R.H eye on your enlarged drawing. Continue for every other main feature of the face and hair, maybe 40 positions. Join up all the dots in HB pencil and you have the enlarged face on your paper.<\/p>\n
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