Using a grid

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Comment by Georgene Laub on April 26, 2012 at 9:26pm

Great idea!  I'll be trying it!

Comment by Gra on February 15, 2012 at 1:17pm

Thanks John through history artists have used all sorts of techniques to help so for me using a grid to start a drawing is quite acceptable and the more you use it the easier it becomes untill you use methods like this less

Comment by John Randall on February 7, 2012 at 8:04pm

Good idea - as a non-artist I suffer from the delusion that a technique like that is somehow "cheating." For some time I have beaten myself up because I can't seem to draw anything other than geometric forms in anything near to proportion...

After a bit of reflection I guess that any method that helps to get the sense of scale correct is perfectly valid - also the small squares are very helpful in getting the details.

Thanks for this useful tip 

Comment by Gra on January 21, 2012 at 3:56pm

Didnt transfer very well onto youtube so has come out very jerky  but  hope you can get the basic idea of how I transfer pics for drawing