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Question: When you paint with acrylic paint, do you sketch on the canvas with pencil first!?
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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!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You can do this just as you can with oil paints!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

THATS WAT I WOULD DO
to keep paintt inside the lines
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