TUTORIAL: Grid Technique

I think this tutorial will really help out all of the newbies or even those who are not great at oblique views or want an easy way. Sorry for the quality of the pics.

This is the first time I have used this technique and it makes drawing Oblique views much easier.

1. First find an image that you would like to draw.

2. Print out the image (I chose B&W, bad choice) in color if possible. I print on graphing paper so I dont have to draw the grid onto the piece of paper.

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3. Figure out the scale that you want to work with. For mine it was 1box=1/2 in. I use a 18x12 drawing pad for this. Number along the X and Y axis

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4. Look at each box on the print out then transfer it to the grid box on the drawing pad. Seems easy enough. This is where the numbers come in handy so you can pick box 4,7 to copy.

5. Now Its ready to be shaded. After you erase the grid.

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Stay tuned for the shading steps.

:O wow amazing! thnx lots

i learned the grid technique last year in art, and use it a lot now!

best way to draw a car~!

That looks really good i am gonna have to try this

I'm glad everyone likes it.

yeah, I learned that way in math actually :smoker2: which was last year. It's a great way to get great details from a real life picture. If you have time on your hands to draw something I'd suggest this way.

ok i tryd this technique, sat down with bristol board, a small pic of a civ, and some material and got goin... it actually looked pretty good when i had done the front end but then i think it just got worse as i went along...

srre for the bad pic, but what do you think i should do with it next?

GTMIKE400,

You didn't tell me you new the grid tecnique :)

Well that book by Hammond talks about that. That is one reason why I wanted you to get it. Still check it out because she goes into detail about shading. The shading really is what gives the car weight and a feeling of 3D.

Your tutorial is da---bomb. I love it. Now we need Simdel1 to wright a tutorial on his "Point of Reference Technique"

Great now the secrete is out "grid technique" everyone will be able to draw :)

al

Originally posted by ChopinPorkChop
ok i tryd this technique, sat down with bristol board, a small pic of a civ, and some material and got goin... it actually looked pretty good when i had done the front end but then i think it just got worse as i went along...

srre for the bad pic, but what do you think i should do with it next?

ChopinPorkChop

From what I can tell your photo is not a good reference because it does not show the detail of the side and rear part of the car.

I think if you get a better reference. You will be able to draw the car a whole lot better especialy the side and back part. To be honest I looked at your work again. The car really looks good.

al

thnx al, but the ref pic isnt actually that dark, i just darkened camera to get a better pic... but still your right, it is a bit dark around the back.. thnx

hmm, looking at your drawing, it looks just about perfec . as soon as you are happy use a green and a black pen or pencil crayon or prisma pencil to draw the outline...that is if you are doing it in colour...

thnx... i want to redo the front end then outline with a colour... but my prob is the interior... i dont know what todo with it... im thinking of just maybe blacking out the windows? tell me what u think

thats a prelude by the way, not a civic.



but the drawing looks good, CHC, i think you should just blacken the windows until you can perfect making the fine details of the interior.

it looked better in led.. anyways i give up, i tried redoing the front end, couldnt do it so i threw some ink on it and got it outlined, now im putting it to the side, it was my first serious try at car drawing, before i just liked to doodle and such but i guess you just gotta move on, next time im going to pic a better car and picture

Hmmm, I'm trying to see what possibly went wrong. I'm not sure, to me it looks like you rushed the further back you went.

to me it looks like your hood is on the left side(when you look at it:wink:
too high!I think it would be betta to put it a bit deeper(right word??, hope ya know what I mean) and then I think it will look better

Why are ur drawings red X's :(

hey yo i dont get it too much on like step 4 i dont get that iight peace

hey yo i dont get it too much on like step 4 i dont get that iight peace

Damn this is an old post. I dont even get step 4 anymore.

don't bump old topics!!

thanks for the tutorial Mike. I am thinking about trying it this weekend on one of the pics I have been eyeing to draw for a while