When your desired size is too large for your own printer, you can try printing the drawing in sections, then piecing them together again. If your final artwork isn’t going to be too large or if you own a large format printer yourself, you can scan your finished drawing, enlarge it in photo editing software such as Photoshop or a cloud-based app, and print it at the desired size. Most of them are able to print on large paper rolls, which means you can scale up a drawing to almost any size. If you work large, a professional copy shop may be your best option. I then sent it to send the client for approval as well as made a copy for myself. They made a full-size copy while I waited. I made the line drawing as large as I could using the grid method, refined it as much as possible, then took it to a local professional printer. One of my most recent paintings was 24×36 larger than most standard copy machines. If your final work is larger than a standard copy machine, look for a copy shop with large format copy machines, or a professional copy shop that does printing and/or blueprint copying. This method is especially helpful if you’re not sure exactly how big you want the final drawing. Make the line drawing whatever size is most comfortable for you, then take the drawing to a copy shop to be scaled up. The copy machine / print shop methodĪ second way to scale up a line drawing is to use a copy machine. Read How to Create an Accurate Drawing Using the Grid Method for step-by-step instructions. It takes longer to draw this way, but there is no better method for drawing accurate proportions short of tracing. Portrait work used to be my bread-and-butter, and since most portraits must be drawn accurately, the grid method was the fastest and easiest method available. Second, it’s often much easier to draw detail when working with a larger drawing, whether it’s full size or not. It’s even possible to draw from digital images with the grid method. I’ve made full-sized line drawings for paintings of 20×24 and larger from 8×10 or 11×14 reference photos. The grid method has a couple of advantages over other methods.įirst, you can scale the drawing to any size, larger or smaller. The small drawing is then reproduced square by square on the larger paper. With the grid method, you place a grid over a reference photo (or in this case, your small drawing) then draw a grid of the same proportions on your full-size paper. So what’s the best method of scaling up a drawing? Here are 4 that I’ve used: 1. Others, myself included, often find it easier to finish a small line drawing, then scale it up to full-size after it’s finished to our satisfaction. That’s just no fun at all!įor many, the ideal solution is to make the original line drawing full-size, the very first time you draw it, but that’s not always possible. And there’s always the possibility of making difficult calculations about percentages, and whatnot. No method I know of works with every combination, scale ratio, or convenience level. A lot depends on the size of the drawing you want to scale up and the size you need to make it. Scaling a drawing up from it’s original size to the size of the final artwork isn’t always easy. By Carrie Lewis in Art Tutorials > Drawing Tips
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