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  • Drawing on Black Paper

    by

    Lindsey Bugbee

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    It’s surprisingly easy to create artwork and calligraphy on black paper. You just need a few easy-to-find tools to get started! Next thing you know, people will be lining up at your door begging for your secret to such beautiful art pieces … to which you can simply respond: “Black {paper, that is} magic.”

    Drawing on Black Paper | The Postman's Knock

    If you’ve been following TPK on Facebook or Instagram, you know that I’ve been drawing on black paper for the past two weeks working on my chalk-style illustration booklet/kit for Quarto Publishing. The kit will be available on Amazon and in various brick-and-mortar stores late summer of this year, but I couldn’t wait that long to write a blog post over this — actually, very fun — activity.

    Drawing on Black Paper | The Postman's Knock

    Drawing on black paper is a novelty. I think it’s appealing for a couple of reasons, the first of which being it’s hard to do if you don’t have the tools {which are somewhat specialized}. Creating artwork on black paper is impressive because it says: “Look at this cool pen/thing I have, and the stuff I can do with it!” The second reason is the fact that it’s difficult for a printer to mass-produce. By and large, printers can only print colored inks, which means printing white on black paper hardly ever happens {unless a printing company has a special printer}. So: when you send someone artwork on black paper, it immediately says: “I took the time to make this especially for you by hand.” Mainly, though, artwork on black paper just looks cool, which is why I’m writing this blog post.

    I am going to show you a few tools and techniques for writing and drawing on black paper; for all of them, I’d recommend getting one of these little guys:

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