SCRATCHBOARD DRAWING

Scratchboard

Mind the shortcomings of the metal, wood and linoleum engraving in France and England in the nineteenth century, local artists began to explore new methods of reproducing illustrations. Developed a technique named later Scratchboard (or often even Scraperboard), found perhaps the ideal solution.



 

The artists-Scratchboard illustrators, in his drawings used not only knives, but other tools to etching into a white China clay, then covered the Etching in black ink, with the result that produces brilliant images and complex textures of exquisite background.
 The effectiveness of Scratchboard, and soon the ability in this technique to reproduce images with amazing accuracy, very soon make it into the preferred and primary method for printing medical illustrations, technical illustrations, scientific illustrations and everything in which you can apply this technique.
 Each Scratchboard itself is unique and depending on the complexity of creation, for the establishment of some artwork Scratchboard, it is absolutely possible to take of the illustrator even more than 100 hours of scratching .. And naturally, with the development of digital technology, the modern illustrators increasingly prefer to add a few details and colors with programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator ...