Restoration of a Drawing

[MikeG]

I would like some opinions on this image. It appears to be a pencil drawing done on an off white paper. If I were doing this restoration all the way through printing, my approach would be to change the background to paper white and then print the image on an off white matte paper. Since this will be printed on photo paper I will keep the background the yellowish off white that it is. I would hope that the printing could be done on a matte paper rather than a glossy paper to look more like the original. What do any of you think about this?

Here is the original and work in process. Still some work to be done on it but thought I would like to get some more ideas. Have any of you done this type of restore of a drawing before?





Thanks

Original

http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/mgilb999/media/ByrnesL_5_02_14_75x12_zpsced393cw.jpg.html

WIP

http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/mgilb999/media/ByrnesL_5_02_14_75x12_wip1_sample_zpsrkubrmyx.jpg.html

[Mhayes]

Mike, I agree with Tori about going back to the original and doing a B/W and the reason is that the yellow of the paper maybe that way because of water damage and also age. With this being from Hurricane Katrina it would have set for 10 years. Other wise there would not have been a reason to bring it in.

Margie

[MikeG]

Thanks for the advice. My original idea was to do it as a B/W, so will go back to that method.