A good drawing board is essential for creating quality drawings. Today I’ll review some inexpensive options you can use to take your artwork to the next level! Why You Need A Drawing BoardYou need a hard, smooth surface on which to draw. This will allow you to make your pencil, charcoal, or other marks with confidence.

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A uniform drawing surface will keep things predictable when you are new to drawing and therefore much less stressful to you as beginning artist learning to draw.If you draw without a drawing board underneath your paper, you will more than likely gouge indentations into your drawing paper. These incised gouges are hard to notice at the start of your drawing but will show up later on towards the later stages of your drawing leaving you bewildered as to what went wrong. If you’re working out of a pad of paper those gouged indentations in the paper can even scratch up the paper below ruining your next drawing before it has even started!The use of a drawing board also allows for easy movement of your drawing itself. Once taped down your drawing can be rotated around and safely worked on from any angle. Taping your drawing to a drawing board also affords you the opportunity to prop your drawing up and look at it from a further distance; a necessary activity for all artists. Store-bought vs.

Homemade Drawing BoardsClips, metal edges, handles, rubber bands, bells, whistles, etc there are so many types of drawing boards you can buy online or at your local art store. The simple ones cost around $14 while you can spend over $100 for some of the larger fancier models.

I’m sure the expensive drawing boards are very nice, but I’ve never owned one. I’ve been toting around the same homemade drawing boards for years, maybe decades; they are dirt cheap drawing surfaces and you can make them in any size you’d like. Here’s how you can make your own drawing board. PREMIUM QUALITY - Made from extra rigid 4mm tempered Masonite for long-lasting quality.

ERGONOMIC DESIGN - Constructed with cutout handle, smooth edges, and firm spring clips. SECURE HOLD - Rubber band is included with each to hold paper and/or pads securely in place.

A PROFESSIONALS CHOICE - Alvin has been the professionals choice for drafting tools and drawing supplies for over half a century. Since 1950, we have brought quality and value to our customers. Our tools help bridge the gap between ideas and innovations. We are known for our wide selection of high quality tools at a fair price. Making a Drawing BoardAny material that is rigid and lightweight enough to carry and has a super smooth surface can become a drawing board. You can go to any home improvement store that sells wood and find some potential homemade drawing board options. Tempered hardboard is an excellent wood for making drawing board.

Go with the 1/4 inch thickness so it’s sturdy enough and resists bending.Note: Many people refer to hardboard as “Masonite”, but masonite is actually just a brand name of hardboardit’s kind of like calling a photocopy a “Xerox” copy.You can buy a whole 8 foot by 4 foot sheet of quarter inch hardboard for usually under $15 and let me tell youyou can get many drawing boards out of that single sheet of wood! In fact, what I once did many years ago was: I took a piece of graph paper and calculated all of the cuts necessary to divide up the 8×4 foot sheet of hardboard into many different sized drawing boards so that they could easily accommodate a variety of paper sizes.

It was a blueprint of cuts. I brought that blueprint / graph paper right to the store and had them cut up the hardboard wood right there! I left the store with a stack of various sized boards great for drawing and they all fit nicely into my car – no gigantic 8×4 foot sheet to take home and cut myself. What a relief! Using Your Drawing BoardWhen using your drawing board you’ll want to fix your paper to the drawing board.

I like using for this, but if I’m out of drafting dots I’ll use that blue painter’s tape, and in a real pinch I use regular masking tape that I stick on and off my cloths a few times to make it less sticky! Standard Sizes BlueprintHere’s blueprint for taking a standard sheet of wood (4 by 8 feet) and cutting it up into standard sizes. What do I mean by standard sizes? The sizes you most commonly find in art stores when buying canvases, frames, and paper.

Kaleidosketch is a kaleidoscope-inspired symmetry drawing program.The idea is pretty simple. You draw in the canvas, and Kaleidosketchcreates symmetry by rotating and reflecting your drawing in real time. Youhave control over virtually every aspect of the process.

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You can changethe number of rotations, whether your drawing is reflected, the center ofrotation, the line width, color, and how that color changes as you draw.Layers let you work on one aspect of your drawing without the risk of messingup another part. For example, you can draw outlines on one layer, and thencolor them on a layer underneath.

The check boxes next to each layer let youhide and show them, and the radio buttons control which layer you draw on.You can change their order by dragging their miniature previews up and down in the list.If you click on any number box and drag your mouse to the left or right, thevalue in that box will change. This lets you adjust your color or symmetryquickly, without ever letting go of the mouse.Kaleidosketch relies on the HTML canvas element introduced in the HTML 5 specification.This, unfortunately, means that browser support is limited. Kaleidosketch works in thelatest releases of Firefox and Safari, and for the most part, in Opera.

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