Fran

Sometimes the carbon paper smears all over in my opinion. Another way, less expensive but a little bit more time consuming -not much if the drawing is simple, is to shade the back of the drawing, lines only, with a number 2 or darker pencil, holding the pencil at a 45 degree angle.(this may need to be done in a window for the image to be seen well enough) but then you flip it back over onto the canvass and re-trace the front. The graphite should appear (rub off) on the front of the canvass. it's pretty simple and easy. I've used this method a good bit.