I scanned all these images directly from the tracing paper and then adjusted the brightness (to make the background white) and the contrast (to bring the lines of the drawing back to their original darkness) in my image editing program. On this one, though, I used an eraser tool (instead of the brightness and contrast controls) to get rid of the background. I was just experimenting and liked the results. Treating the image this way seemed to encapsulate the shapes made by the lines and give them flavor and the slightest bit of substance. Then I added just the slightest bit of a sepia tint.

This one crosses over from line drawing to watercolor, but if you look closely you will see that I did use the watercolors inside of a line drawing. The lovely enclosed shapes of the leaves and flowers just cried out to have color splashed into them, so I did! Again, I worked directly on the tracing paper. You can severely wrinkle your tracing paper with watercolor but I had so many line drawings laying around that I decided to give it a try and I liked the results.

I hope you have enjoyed this exploration of line drawing and got lots of good ideas for your own projects. I like to use my small pieces of art on stationary, bookmarks, note cards, bags, boxes and anything else that can be made out of paper. They look especially nice when you add a border. You can find a wide variety of borders in Clip Art Collections. Print Artist by Sierra is a very good and affordable program for printing stationary and projects. You can insert your own art into their stationary and project templates.