a great alternative to transfer paper is to lay a piece of charcoal flat on the back of the print of the drawing you want to transfer and lightly cover the paper in charcoal (shouldn't take more than a minute) then draw over the front side of the drawing like you were using actual transfer paper! lovely video by the way , the colors in the final piece are stunning!
Happy, there is a very simple way of doing the same tile printing from the original (11 x 14) size photoshop document, instead of having to create a new 8 x 10 document and reposition each tile print. On the print menu in photoshop choose to print at 100%, and you can input from what position/point of the document to start printing your "tiles" at: 0" from the top and 0" from the left for the first page/tile. And then the next tile at 0" from the top and 8 inches from the left, and so on to the next row of tiles. I used to have to do this all the time to create poster or large ad mock-ups for clients as a graphic designer, and now I use it for my art as well! xo
Also, I should have mentioned, to reposition the printing start point you have to use (-) numbers, so 0" from top and them -8" from left, and so on. ;) I actually did a video showing the method last year... without being too spammy (ugh), here it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nH0DrKFoskk.html
your paintings and style is veryy talented, this tutorial was very helpful because I’ve recently done a drawing of a prince that I wanted to Enlarge but didn’t want to freehand
You're great, you always tell us as people and as artist something meaningful to think about, and you're a wonderful inspiration to our creativity, thank you. Pls post more.
Thanks for sharing this technique! Your art is beautiful and seeing the drawing in black and white made me realize that she would make an amazing tattoo.
I just love how soft your your paintings turn out. I should really invest in transfer paper, because I do it an oodly high amount. But I didn't actually know there was a paper specifically for it.
Happy, thank you SO MUCH for this tutorial. It’s so helpful. Also, I can’t remember if I properly thanked you for answering my question in the patreon video! Thank you so much, Happy! You rock!💜💜💜💜
This was so incredibly helpful wow!! Thank you Happy! I have a buncha sketches ive been wanting to turn into paintings so I'll definitely be using this! 💖
I noticed that most faces of her girl drawings look like her. But of course they all look like animated but She's with them somehow. I don't know if I am correct with this but I think it is psychological whether she does it by intention or not but I have always noticed the facial features of the artist herself is always present in her drawings. By the way, just my opinion
I like your videos.. Thank you.. have you tried a projector? I picked one up for cheap that works off my phone. I just take a picture and project it on to the canvas.
I use this technique all the time too! But I use dollar store green painters tap for transferring because it's easier to remove and doesn't ruin my paper
Making your own transfer paper is a lot easier with vine charcoal. You can just put your printed paper against a window and trace the lines on the back with a stick of vine charcoal, or you can run it over the whole paper if you really want, but it's not necessary. Then lay it down, tape it in place, and apply pressure to the lines on the front. It will transfer the charcoal lines wherever you press on them. I don't suggest using transfer paper or covering the whole page because if you rest your hand on it you will end up with a handprint on the canvas or paper as well.
It's a lot easier after you scan the image, to print it onto a single piece of acetate, and then put that on an overhead projector, it allows you to scale it up into any size.
Hi Happy! I was wondering, when you record your time lapses for oil paintings, do you use time lapse functions on your camera and edit it into a video, or do you just record regular video and speed it up?
hi,ım a turkish girl that 12 years old i want to be a artist but in my country they don t think its a job my family says artists are poor and i dont now how to prove my art or practice soo can you help me
Just draw daily if you enjoy it, also practice anatomy and color as a hobby. When you're old enough (18+) to decide that you truthfully want to be an artist - go for it. Practicing art at a young age to build up your skill is important if you see yourself as an artist one day because it saves you a lot of time, unlike artists who started from 0 in adult age. There are some instances when people are good at art even though they've never really drawn anything before, but that's very rare, so rare that I haven't met a single one in my art school. Everyone starts from 0. If you believe you have some potential to be a professional artist and your art stands out from the rest of the kids, really, go for it. The key to success is believing in yourself and never giving up. Your parents might not like it at the moment but you can leave them be and focus on your art as a hobby. I was once just like you, a 12 year old dreaming to become an artist and my parents telling me I will be poor and unemployed. I am 20 years old, never gone to college, working in a local museum and doing art in my free time. :)
Keep working hard love, my family and people around me said the same exact thing. I’m 30 years old, and I’ve had a horrible artist block that lasted years now but I’m not giving up! You should make a deviantart account!
This is what we do ( Tattoo artists) at the shop when we blow up an image to paint_ also when we need a bigger stencil for the tattoo we are going to do!
I tend to get a lot of smudge marks from where my hand sits when transfering my image how can take it off without smudging it more. I’ve tried an eraser and that made it sooo much worse☹️ help please
The quality of oil plays a big role in that, how dry it is etc. There are also colors with different kind of opacity. The tube is usually marked with some sybol of what type it is. I believe it's a tiny circle/square which are either empty or filled. I'm not sure which represent what but it does have something to do with opacity. You might wanna research that. It's just something my professor mentioned randomly while I was working on an oil painting. I don't have much experience with oil so I cannot help you much. I assume the transparent ones cause the dirty and muddy look. I recommend you just watch more oil painting videos that actually go into details of what they're doing, why and how. Especially black and white technique. I once worked with this technique except the shadows were brown-red because I was working on a portrait. I was just building shadows and then with tiny strokes adding white and mixing it all together. After I was done I just placed color lightly on places where they were meant to be.
Why not just draw on 11x14in paper in the first place?! lol (that's what I do and I'm sure all other people do also) Why go through all of these these unnecessary time wasting steps?!
