For
all my drawings, I use a mechanical pencil 0.5 or 0.7 filled with
2B lead (this eliminates the need for constant sharpening) an assortment
of erasers including a putty rubber and a large soft brush to wipe
away any erasure debris. For blending and pulling out the colour I
use soft tissue paper and rolled paper
tortillons.
The first thing we have to do is transfer the basic information from
the photograph to the drawing paper, this is done by "gridding
up", a network of accurately drawn squares either drawn directly onto
the photograph or, as I do, a clear acetate with the grid drawn on,
laid over and secured, to prevent moving.
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This
grid now has to be repeated, very lightly and very carefully, on the
drawing paper. This grid will be erased so it's best to draw only
the squares we actually need, in this case 12 across by 20 down. Place
the grid centrally on the page. At this stage we can also decide on
the scale we wish to reproduce the image, by enlarging the size of
the grid, we can enlarge the size of the finished drawing.
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