Grid Drawing

Hey there, everyone.

This is your introduction to your next unit, which will

talk about drawing on a grid.

So grid drawing will be the skill that we are

tackling, and we will be focusing on proportion, accuracy and

also texture.

So, your goals for this lesson, you will be taking

a realistic photo and recreating it as a drawing.

Using a grid will help you to accurately represent your

subject and keep the proportions correct.

Your photo could be anything that you choose.

It could be a photo that you took or something

that you find online.

If you take a look here, you can see the

grid on photo to the left.

Matches the drawing on the right, and this is a

photo that I took of my job.

So you can either find a photo or you can

take one yourself.

So let's talk a little bit about grid drawing.

Since ancient Egyptian times, artists have been using the grid

method as a drawing tool to improve accuracy, and they

would use this method by snapping a string soaked in

red dye against their drawing surface.

So you can see that red dye grid over here

and For those of you that don't know, Egyptian art

followed a canon of proportion where each one of these

grids would dictate the size of what they were creating.

It was very mathematically based.

The Renaissance artists in Europe used the grid method a

bit differently.

They would create a wooden frame, kind of like the

one that you see here, and then you can see

they have this still life set up, and then a

grid drawn on their paper and the objects go within

the square.

So, for example, the mouth of this base.

If I want to go ahead and represent this accurately,

I'm going to count down and over, right?

It's like a game of battleship.

So I'm going to go.

1234 Throw down 123 over.

And there is the mouth of my vase.

And then I, of course, can follow this curve like

the shoulder is on that crisscross right there.

It comes out almost all the way to the edge.

You get the idea.

When the Renaissance artists were using these frames, they would

hammer those nails into place around the outside tie strings,

and then that would give them their grid.

As you can see in the illustration down here, this

gentleman is working on his grid paper there with the

frame in front of him, and his objects would be

behind. So that's a little bit about use of great

in the Renaissance.

And then, of course, throughout history, many famous artists have

used to the grid method for drawing are just like

EMC, Essure, Leonardo da Vinci Obrecht, er, Van Gough.

And since the invention of the camera, the grid method,

of course, has evolved to where you can apply that

grid digitally, which we're going to be doing.

So you have that option.

Of course, if you want to go ahead and build

this frame, that would also be pretty cool, too.

A couple of other uses today, anybody to strive anybody's

driving to create and accurately represented drawing can go ahead

and benefit from the grid method.

It's especially helpful if you are trying to change sizes

so you can see this artist here is a mural

artist, and for him to take his sketch and blow

it up on the wall.

A grid grid method allows him to help keep those

proportions, keep that style.

Keep everything looking accurate without too much too much distortion.

And there's a video here in the presentation that you'll

have access to that talks a little bit more about

that. So let's talk process pictures you are going to

like. I said, start with a photo of your own.

If you want to print it out and draw your

lines on, you can do that.

You can also use a digital version.

You will then, of course, to be creating the same

size grid on your drawing surface.

So you see, this is 1234 squares wide.

1234 squares is what I need when I'm recreating my

piece. Same thing for the height, and then that helps

to keep your, um, proportions correct.

So you proportion is the size relationship in relation to

other parts.

So if I take a look at this horse's front

lip on his snout and this backlit, it looks like

the drawing over here, they maybe made it a little

too low.

It only comes to about the middle of that box

and down here, I don't know.

It just feels like it's a little bit further down.

Like if I drew a straight line across here.

It looks like it should be more up here, so

things like that can help be corrected by your grid.

And of course, you can see there are just a

couple of other examples.

Now, a couple of other artists who use Scholastic or

excuse me, who use a grid are these two scholastic

winners. And I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce

the idea of scholastic to you.

So this is Jordan Hall.

He is a golden key Scholastic winner from 2015.

So that is him on the left.

And then this is the piece that he created using

a grid.

And then this is Caylee Washington.

She was also a gold key winner, and she was

also a winner in 2015.

So that's her on the left.

And this is her piece of art.

So what in the world is scholastic?

So these guys used a grij toe interscholastic What?

What is elastic?

So if you go to this website, I'm not going

to take you there now, but I will link it

elsewhere, um, in your canvas module.

So scholastic is a Siri's well, it is a educational

resource, and they also go ahead, and they do scholastic

art in rating awards.

And so if you are a writer, you can enter.

If you are an artist, you can enter.

There's more information on the website about what kinds of

things you can enter.

But I have the deadlines and timeline for you here

so you can see fall 2020.

That's us right now.

Sept. 12 Submissions will open.

If you are interested, you should go take a look

at the website.

Eventually you will need to go create a log in

or account make some art, depending on what media you

want to enter, and then your deadline to submit work

is December 22nd.

They usually announced the winners early in the following year,

so usually they'll announce that, um, the winners around January

of 2021.

So that's just something to consider.

If you are interested in getting your work out there

and competing in that and if not, these are your

next steps, you're gonna take a photo from online or

use one that you take yourself and you're going to

put a grid on it.

So even if you are taking your photo from a

online resource, save it to your camera roll and you

are going Teoh, go ahead and you are going to

download the app rid and then you guys call it

a hashtag.

Older generations call it a pound symbol, but this is

the name of the act that you're gonna go ahead

and download.

Once that's done, you're gonna pick one square so you

can see it's pretty right in this photo.

Um, a little less noticeable in this photo, but you

are going to experiment with some different textures.

So if I zoom in, this is the photo grid

square that I selected and you can see down here.

I'm experimenting with the different textures in my dog's snout

and also the blanket so you can see I'm kind

of playing with some for and whisker textures here.

I have some woven texture to do this blanket.

Um, and you specifically want to pick a square that

has multiple textures.

So I have her nose, which is different than the

actual fuzzy snout and then the blanket as well.

And this is just a good way for me to

decide if my picture is something that I want to

continue working with.

If I realize that this blanket is way too difficult

for me, maybe I'm going to simplify it or change

the texture or even pick a new picture.

So you'll experiment with how you're gonna represent those textures

in your drawing, and you'll create these texture samples that

air down at the bottom.

Then you're going to go ahead and find a surface

to draw on.

You're gonna make sure that your grid matches the one

in your photo for a number of squares and go

ahead and start drawing so you can see I chose

four squares by four squares.

I have four squares by four squares.

You get to choose how many squares that you want

and the more squares that you have, the more structure

it will give you.

You, of course, can go ahead and adjust that in

the act.

So if you have any questions, just let me know.

And in the meantime, have fun picking.

We're taking your pictures

Grid Drawing

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