Ways to use the Grid Method for Drawing Pictures

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Ways to use the Grid Method for Drawing Pictures
Some people looking at this page might have heard about the grid method yet others might not have. A short description of the grid method is that it's basically a method to help in keeping your drawing in proportion.

You are able to take a reference photo and put a grid on top of it and the grid will help you break a complicated image down into smaller, more manageable pieces. Additionally, you will put a grid on top of your drawing paper and after that your task will be to just notice what's within every box in your reference photo and copy that into the comparable box on your drawing paper.

This may sound a bit challenging but actually the grid method happens to be fairly simple. Using a grid of vertical and horizontal lines will let you very easily be certain that you're drawing all the things in the appropriate place. In your reference photo, a line may go from some point of the grid to another, and you would just duplicate that on your drawing paper.

Along with finding a few points in which lines within your drawing cross grid lines and just connecting the dots, the grid method will additionally help you discover different shapes in your reference photo and then transfer these shapes to your drawing. The grid method likewise helps you notice negative space, which is the area that you're not drawing. You will find shapes made between your grid lines and areas you aren't drawing that may help you see the lines and shapes that you are drawing.

Hopefully this explanation of using the grid method isn't overly complicated, but it is sort of challenging to describe without a couple of visual aids. Maybe I will return before long and put up a few photos or perhaps a video so I can provide you with a more comprehensive and simpler to understand description.