So what do you do after you've got a picture like this and you don't really want to redraw it because you liked what you did here, and you might want to change a few things. Here's what you do. Just get a thin piece of paper like this. You can see right through it and give yourself a couple minutes and trace your own drawing. It doesn't hurt to put a little tape on it also, put a little tape here and you have your nice drawing. Let's take a minute and transfer So if you want to add a little fun to this picture, you can just transfer it like we've done other times we had dark in the back.

And I'm going to show you two ways to transfer this. You just darkened the back of your picture like that, because I drew it in pen, take that and trace it, and it will come out onto watercolor paper. But here's another way to do it, which is kind of neat too. It's called flipping the picture. So you put your tape on here, and you draw your picture, and take your time with the pencil and just redraw your whole picture. And I'll show you what to do after we're finished doing that.

Okay, I've drawn my picture in pencil from here to hear. And now keep my little pieces of tape. I'll put this one too. And you'll take a little piece of watercolor paper. I like the arches watercolor paper, 140 pound. There are many, many, many watercolor papers this one, it's good because you can always use the other side if one side doesn't work out.

So I'll just keep it in the book. I take my time. Now just to go over the two ways. If you want to take your ink dry, all you have to do is put pencil all over the lines on the back. And a good way to do this, if you can't see through it is put it up against the window and backwards like the windows here and you'll be able to see it perfectly. So that's one way to do it.

And then you just put this on your watercolor paper and trace your drawing once more and it will transfer exactly as it is to your paper. The reason we do this is so that we don't have to erase on the paper and damage it watercolors are sensitive, and they don't like the paper being rough. Now, you'll notice that this is bigger than my paper and that's fine. I don't mind that at all. I just need a small amount of paper tape. And oh, what am I doing?

We're flipping it. We don't even have to do that. We put it this way. Hansel side down. I think you'll like this because we are really used to seeing things a certain way. This will change it.

So okay, so what I'm going to do, I'm going to show you a few of the marks after I do it. After I go over and just go over the back. It's going to transfer see. So here's my rock. I just go over with a pencil. The Rock is starting to show Let's see.

So I'll take a minute and I'll transfer it. So going just can check my progress. Yeah, it's happening. Now the softer the pencil, the easier that it transfers. So I'm not gouging my paper. I've just going back and forth and back and forth.

Now this is fairly large piece of paper if you want and you don't want to get too frustrated, use a smaller drive. Just make the drawing smaller. Artists are always looking for a different way to get something so that they're different. Okay, let's take the tape off here. Now you can't see it. It's in pencil, but I can see all of it.

And all I'm going to do is I'm going to take this off and give me another minute I'll go over it and pencil once more. Okay, this might be interesting to watch a change to morado classic, which is a softer pencil. Now everything is on the opposite side to what I usually draw because I flipped it. And what makes it really interesting is that you're drawing differently because everything here is going to the left. And if you're left handed or right handed, that makes a difference. I'm gonna put a little chunk in that rocks here.

I'm changing a few things. My finger because it's watercolor paper, I can start to get some shading. have to adjust everything here because I'm working right to left now. Yes And notice I can make changes if I want. This would be the first time drawing, then the copy, and then the flip. So it's really the paint the drawing is starting to become a little more designed because I keep working on it.

And I'm getting familiar with my subject. So let me just finish this up. As you can see, I've really adapted a few things here and changed a few things. Looking at my original sketch. And putting some flex in memory, this can be a watercolor, so I don't need too many lines. But I do like a little the shading here in the let's talk about little shading that get to this round is just take your finger when you've got a little pencil, Baby Finger but remember the end of the birch tree ends are darker.

That's what makes it different than a poplar tree poplar trees. The branches are the same color everywhere. Now we can add a lot of details later, but I'm going to make a few of these to shoot off here, just like we saw. And I think I'm just about ready for my watercolor on this one, a couple little clouds. Just a couple little pencil marks. Nothing.

Nothing drastic. Maybe a little one down here. Okay, that's going to be a good color picture for us to watercolor