i wanna make a 5x5ft, easily transportable art piece using sharpie. What would be the best base for this? Canvas? Paper?
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canvas survives wrinkles much better than paper, but is also far more absorbent and will spread the ink, which will probably be a negative.
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An extremely tall and fat human willing to lend you their back as your canvas.
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A little googling of large scale sharpie art materials suggests that canvas primed with white acrylic or gesso is a good medium for sharpie art.
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prob a synthetic. I would say check with Fedex Kinkos but they are on the wrong side of the gun control debate. Anyway I had a small drawing blown up to that size and it came back on a rubbery canvas-like substance.
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do you plan on working in large format over a long period of time? (i.e. you won't be satisfied with making a smaller original & blowing it up later) I'd use primed canvas or perhaps something like vinyl for durability, mistake fixes, hedge against accidental deformity.
