SCRATCHBOARD
- Find your black scratch board paper and scraper tool
- Pick a picture below or you can find your own picture. Pictures of close up animals with lots of hair/details are best for scratchboard.
- Use the grid transfer technique to transfer the picture to the scratchboard.Transfer picture with a pencil and apply very light pressure. Draw a very light cross (this gives you four quadrants) on your scratchboard. Unfortunately, if you need to erase those pencil lines later, just know that your eraser can leave faint marks on the black surface.
- Watch youtube video below for techniques on how to scrape.
-You are scraping the highlights and leaving the shadows as the black of the scratchboard
- Pick a picture below or you can find your own picture. Pictures of close up animals with lots of hair/details are best for scratchboard.
- Use the grid transfer technique to transfer the picture to the scratchboard.Transfer picture with a pencil and apply very light pressure. Draw a very light cross (this gives you four quadrants) on your scratchboard. Unfortunately, if you need to erase those pencil lines later, just know that your eraser can leave faint marks on the black surface.
- Watch youtube video below for techniques on how to scrape.
-You are scraping the highlights and leaving the shadows as the black of the scratchboard