Artist Grid Drawing Patterns and Art Lessons

Grid drawing patterns displayed are for art lessons in graphite pencil, colored pencil and artist oil paints you will find here on Draw-N-Paint.
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Artist Drawing Grids

Over the years many lovers of visual arts have used tools to help them draw or paint a particular art subject. One of those tools is a grid pattern overlaid on an image that their rendering. Grids help to take an image apart by breaking the image down into smaller size pieces. Grids make it easier to draw or paint a smaller portion of the image first. You can learn a lot about drawing more realistically or making your drawings appear more like your art subject by using a grid overlay pattern.

You can begin to understand how negative space plays a part when using your artist visual eye. After a short time you can see how to discern distances between lines, shapes and shadows. You do need to be careful because you could find yourself bonding more closely in your drawing and spending more time on art then other things.

Artist Drawing Grids from Draw-N-Paint.com

About Draw-N-Paint Artist Grid Patterns

Artist grid drawing patterns created by Draw-N-Paint are sent by email to newsletter subscribers . Grid drawing patterns are attached to your email in a PDF file format . You will need a file reader such as Adobe Reader in order to view and print these artist grid patterns on your own computer system.

Draw-N-Paint's grids patterns are set up with half inch square patterns. Depending on your computer system this pattern may vary in size a little when you print your file. Green lines are used for the pattern to separate it from the image.

You will find a numbering system incorporated on each pattern. In the left most column are alphabetical characters in each square arranged in descending order from top to bottom. The top row of each pattern has numerical characters from least to greatest, left corner to right corner.

Transferring the image is a simple concept where you match the corresponding square to the one on your receiving drawing pattern. Select an alphabetical square for the row from the left column such as in the example to the left which is D. Move right across the row to the selected column which is the number 4 column. Matching the two selections gives you the location square D4 to drawing that part of the image in.

There are a number variations of the art subject image on different grid patterns so as to complete each art lesson. The first grid pattern begins with a graphite pencil outline image so that the shape of the art subject can be learn to be rendered proportionately correct. For the shading portion of the art lesson a second grid pattern is in a gray scale or black and white format to help understand the shadows and contrasts. When the oil painting begins another full color image of the art subject is place on a grid pattern so you can see the hues. There are additional in between grid patterns that are dependent on each individual art lesson.

First Unlocking Your Artistic Mind

Sometimes we're not aware of our mind taking control over our creative abilities. With some basic illustrative forms the dilemma can be shown how it occurs when we're drawing. Here's an example of this happening in Image One to the right. Ask yourself, what was the first thought that popped into your mind? I can be ninety nine percent sure that you first focused in your mind the idea or the word square, box. This is because of the way we have been taught throughout our younger days in growing up. We have gone to schools which are more inclined to teach logical processes so we can apply them to our every day way of living. You know the subjects, english, science, math, history and so forth which there isn't anything wrong with. But where does learning art continue to be placed in the curriculum? Learning visual arts stops at a certain point in your life and you have to continue learning about visual arts on your own.

So for learning to draw the emphasis needs to be place on distance and not on the image. Or you could say that in the artist drawing world the space that you can not identify with is more important than the image itself. It is seeing logical shapes that we have become accustomed to which becomes automatic in our minds eye and dominates. What we need to learn to do is to shut off the logical automatic switch before it is turned on.

Add another element to same image and what registers in your mind? More than likely it's two square boxes that come to mind but could there be a little thought process beginning with the shape of the white space in the large box. Adding the smaller square makes the inside white space of the larger square box irregular. What is the shape of the white space inside the larger box? Is it a square or a rectangle? Can you sense that the mind has to make a logical decision in which it first has to study and comprehend? In the visual art world this white space or area is also known as negative space.