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Glue a picture to Bristol board, and extend it in all directions using gouache. Match color, value, line and texture. Mask the edges with tape for clean lines.

The gouache looks much closer to the color of the card than shown in this scan, which has a pattern that affects the color.

This rendering is similar to the color example. Find an illustration or photograph of interest, glue it to Bristol board, and extend it in all directions. The sky in this drawing has too much texture, so Bristol board is not the best choice for this image.

This example shows a flat wash done in gouache. It should have no texture or value variation.

This is the beginning of the rendering of a collage. Match the line, value, color and texture of the original as closely as possible. The element in the lower right was covered after I finished it.

This is an ambitious colloge assembled for practice rendering. The element in the lower right was finished and then covered.

The top image is a photograph. Make an actual sized duplicate of the main lines by just looking at the reference. No cheating- you won't develop skills that way! just look at it and draw it.

Copy the main lines of the top image, as in the previous example.

Here is another example of line drawing.

Now we switch to tonal drawing. The top image is a photograph. and the bottom is a tonal drawing done the same size. Draw your lines first, then and the tones, matching the value and texture of the original.

Here is another example of the tonal drawing. The texture of the Bristol board caused an incomplete match of the values in the copy.

This is another practice tonal drawing.