When you paint with acrylic paint, do you sketch on the canvas with pencil first?

Question

When you paint with acrylic paint, do you sketch on the canvas with pencil first?

Answer 1

I personally don't use pencil - instead I sketch out my forms with thinned paint and a brush. It is a personal choice - I just find it takes a lot of effort (and paint) to cover the pencil marks.

Answer 2

u can use a piece of light black charcoal, and verrry lightly draw on your design onto the canvas. Then use a large paint brush and brush away the charcoal. It'll leave behind "ghost lines" which are faint outlines of your design.

Answer 3

I have to grid all my drawings as I can't draw to save my Life

Answer 4

You can do this just as you can with oil paints.

Answer 5

THATS WAT I WOULD DO

to keep paintt inside the lines

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Answer 6

This is completely personal choice.  Though, some painting teachers discourage it exactly so that you don't do what the second answerer said, "stay in the lines."  If you do a pencil sketch first, you just want to be careful that the sketch and the painting are an integrated whole.  This is true too, though, if you did a quick sketch with thinned out paint: you want to be thinking in terms of painting from the beginning. That is, areas of color in addition to the drawing elements of line and edges.