Grids / Copying / Tracing
Wednesday November 5, 2008
When I last featured an article on Grid Drawing step-by-step, some of our forum members shared some brilliant ideas for making it a bit easier. Try some of these great shortcuts: save your original, or make enlargement easier by photocopying, stop the grid from spoiling your drawing by tracing lines, and create an instant grid using a computer.
Comments
I don’t like the grid lines in my drawings either… so I make my grids in Microsoft Word (using tables to specify the size of each cell works great) thus, I can print just the grid on tracing paper to lay over a reference photo or regular printing paper that I use under my drawing paper.
My printer limits me to using standard 8.5 X 11 inch paper, but I could tape multiple pages together if I ever needed that large of a grid.
oh Helen I am getting so much enthusiasm from your drawing/Sketching, thank you.
I am teaching grids to children and have drawn some grids on transpancy film and put on drawings, photos, etc. to use as reference and copy on computer. Then I made grid paper by putting grid on scanner, then white copy paper and made copies same size of drawing grids so they can duplicate. I can enlarge both, if I want.