Post #276971 by yumyumkid on Fri, Jan 5, 2007 4:01 PM

On 2007-01-03 14:31, Tikidav wrote:
I have been known to make my own carbon paper. On one side of a piece of paper you scribble the outline of your drawing nice and dark with a big fat #2 pencil. Flip the paper over and trace over your design on it and the pencil lead on the back will transfer like carbon paper.

Try it! It works!

I also use this technique but instead of using a #2 pencil I use some charcoal, same thing. I actually like this method more. Don't need to worry about taping graphite down or to my drawing.

I know you said you wear transferring an image to wood, but here's another way I cheat when doing tracings. (I don't have a light box so I use my computer as one.) Open Microsoft Word or any other program that has a plain white screen. Tape my original drawing to the monitor. Tape a blank sheet over my drawing then trace away. My printer is on the fritz and I needed to resize a drawing for a carving. I scanned it and sized it up in Photoshop. Using a marker, I traced the image directly onto the glass of the monitor. Closed Photoshop, opened up Word, taped a blank sheet over the monitor. Then traced over the new drawing that was on the monitor. Good times...
Oh, rubbing alcohol will take ink off any non porous surface.