Some Tips on Using Grid Method for Drawing Accurate Pictures

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Some Tips on Using Grid Method for Drawing Accurate Pictures
Some individuals reading this page may have heard of the grid method while others may not have. A quick explanation of the grid method is that it is simply a strategy to assist in keeping your drawing in proportion.

You'll be able to take a photographic reference and set a grid over it and the grid will allow you to break a complex image down into small, more manageable bits. You will also place a grid over your drawing paper and next your job is to simply discover what exactly is inside each box on your own photographic reference and transfer that to the equivalent box on your drawing paper.

It may appear somewhat complicated but in fact the grid method is rather simple. Creating a grid of horizontal and vertical lines lets you easily verify that you are drawing everything in the correct place. On your photographic reference, a line might go from one point of your grid to another, and you would merely reproduce that on your drawing paper.

In addition to obtaining some points where lines in your drawing cross grid lines and merely connecting the dots, the grid method can likewise help you notice various shapes in your photographic reference and transfer those shapes to your drawing. The grid method also helps you observe negative space, which is the space that you aren't drawing. There are actually shapes created between your grid lines and places you're not drawing that will help you start to see the lines and shapes that you are drawing.

I hope that this explanation of how to use the grid method is not too complicated, but it's somewhat difficult to explain without a few visual aids. Perhaps I'll come back soon and post some photos or possibly a video so that I can offer you a more thorough and simpler to understand explanation.