How do I increase the drawing size?
We've created most of the drawing PDFs to fit on standard 9" by 12" watercolour paper, although if Anna painted her version larger than this, the PDF provided will be supplied at A3 size (twice the size of 'Letter' paper).
If you'd like to reduce the drawing size to fit your printer at home, you can find instructions here.
If you'd like to use the drawing provided to create a larger template to trace from, you can try any of the following:
- Print the PDF provided at 'letter' or 'A4' size. Most home printers print at this size. You can then easily photocopy the drawing up to a larger size using a copier at a store/library which usually will copy at the bigger size which you can then trace
- Use a store that will print the large format PDF for you at the larger size which you can then trace. If you’re doing that then you may want to print off the colour photo too, as the colour reproduction a professional will get, will be better and will be more suitable for use to paint from.
- You can use the scaling up drawing method which Anna outlines in the Drawing video in the Knowledge Base. You can also use a projector for this technique, please see this article here on how to use a projector.
- You could use one of the following websites to split an image into parts and then print each part off on an A4 sheet. The more parts you split an image into, the larger you can make a drawing. So for an A3 sized painting, you would split the image into 2 parts, and print them as 2 x A4. For an A2 sized painting, you'd use the software to split the image into 4 parts. You simply download the split image to print off and then arrange them on your paper for tracing. These sites our members recommend for this are: