Usually I make adjustments to a sketch on the computer before I trace it, but sometimes I notice something afterwards and have to do some surgery. It’s quicker than booting up my old computer again 😅
“Public Convenience” [Pencil and watercolour, 333 x 493 mm, 1976] _ “Thomas Crapper's Invention” [Graphite and coloured crayon on trace , 420 x 295 mm, 1976] _ “Splash and Gurgle” [Graphite and coloured crayon on trace, 420 x 295 mm, 1976] _ Architect: Peter Wilson.
And for those interested in how to transfer from tracing paper to the final paper, this is how I do it - just flip the tracing paper pencil-side down and go over the back of the lines I want transferred with a hard pencil (but not so hard as to dent the paper underneath – been there, regretted that 🫠) The image does get flipped, which is why you have to flip it on the computer before you do the initial tracing.
These are my favourite photographs from my transparent layering experiment and I'm very impressed with how they turned out!
Making them black and white and cutting around the focal point really helped show the viewer how I saw the scene before I took the photo and what drew me in to take it.
When you don't have carbon paper or transfer paper for applying an existing image to something else, you make your tracing with tracing paper, and then scribble on the back of that tracing with a very soft lead pencil. Then you lay the tracing paper scribble side down onto whatever you want to apply the image to, and trace over the traced lines again, with a bit of pressure so it transfers the graphite from the back onto the object underneath.
This is a tried and true method, used the world round.
I found out the fun way that sometimes this process can result in creepy accidental images
This is the back side of the tracing paper, where I scribbled the soft pencil.