BETTER than the Grid Method: Scale up drawings faster and easier!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video drawing tutorial I show you a better, faster and easier way to scale up your photo for drawing. Make it bigger or smaller without drawing a traditional grid of squares. This method is suitable for beginners and involves no calculations or measuring. Learn how to draw more accurately with ease.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction, about this method
2:58 Prepare your photo
3:41 Check the proportions of your paper
7:16 Create your simple grid
10:00 Use your grid to draw your subject
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That method of scaling is the best one for me. Thank you Michele. Best wishes with Sunak.🤐
Hi What do you think of projectors for drawing. I have one from Aldis that magnifies but it distorts. What is the best to use in your opinion. Love your lessons from Mary Ann from Queensland Oz.
This video looked very interesting but a little bit into it I developed a severe migraine from the unnatural perspective created by your video angle. I couldn't watch it longer than that. Would you consider changing your set up so the painting/paper is straight on instead of at an angle? I would really like to have viewed the rest of it.
Its so funny, mostly I just draw, but with something really complicated I just grid but I don't measure. I am really liking your technique Michelle.
Hello, I liked your method of using the diagonal to establish the size and proportion of the paper. I have used the square grid system but now will use your method in the future. Thank you for this video. I enjoy all of your videos.
To make your brain draw what it sees and not what it knows ( as in a bird here), do the grid as you do it and draw the image upside-down.
Explain more , please
@peterreece2340 That’s clever! Thank you, I will take your advice 😊
It is called drawing with right side of the brain
Yes that's how I was trained to draw in school, upside down!!! draw what you see not what you think you see
@@SamA-xu9gy, Drawing upside forces your brain to draw what it sees, and not what the brain remembers something should look like. Other wise it forces you to draw what you see, and not off of memory.
If you have a difficult picture you can Bisect that grid once again, to give you even more of a layout. :) For example if the upper quadrant with the beak was giving you a headache you could once again draw the X pattern for that quadrant. This grid type allows you to bisect what you need and leave the rest alone saving time :)
Great video :D
Indeed!
Yes! I teach art to grown ups that are scared to draw and this grid gives them confidence. And after using it for a time they can draw directly on the page
This is the best technique to draw from a photo. I'm always amazed how accurate it is.
Glad you think so!
It is a lot faster and more accurate to do a scan it, print it and then use a light table. 🙂
@@bknesheim that’s great if you actually have all the equipment to do so. This technique is available to everyone with paper, picture and pencil🤓
@@bknesheim in that case, you wouldn't be drawing but copying.
@@AnasthassiaMurillo It's a copy anyway, but a trace is a lot less work.
Great tutorial!
I use a light table and put the grid for my drawing underneath my paper so that I don’t have to erase the grid from my drawing paper.
I use a piece of transparent drafting film with the grid for the photo and lay it on top of the photo.
Great tip!
I have been using this scaling method since you first introduced it, and it has made a huge difference. It has been especially helpful with the beginner’s drawing course. Traditional grids work fine, but I find this SO much faster and easier. Thank you!
What a loveley cat ! Interrant video! Thank you!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really like the idea of no measuring!
Thank you Michele. This is incredibly helpful for me. Another thing I like to incorporate is after I put the reference lines in to scale by ; I like to turn the reference photo and my paper upside-down. That way my brain doesn't interfere with what I think I see but just draw the lines where they actually are. Then I turn everything right-side up again to refine the details after I have the shape blocked in. I'm sure once I get more experience drawing that I will have to do this less as I will have better trained my seeing. If that makes sense. I don't know exactly why this works but it does for me.🥴💜
I believe this upside down trick is used in the book Drawing on the right side of the brain. The reason it works is that it stops you making assumptions about what you see, by reducing the familiarity of the shapes.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber ahhh. That makes sense!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber it is in that very good book, and also, yes, that is how/why it's effective
it's kinda exactly what she said...That way my brain doesn't interfere with what I think I see but just draw the lines where they actually are. The technique you use also comes from books. It's called diagonal scaling...
great idea!
One easy way to scale up is to export your image in to a power point presentation. Fit the image to the blank presentation. Then on the powerpoint menu go to insert and click table and add a table. Then scroll on the insert table grid and select the grid type from 2x2, 4x6, 5x8, any you desire. Then spread the created grid to cover the image and you are done. You may need to unfill or make transparent the fill color of the resulting "gridded" image. Then print this image and voila you can start working with scaling up.
Brilliant idea!!! I will certainly try your suggestion.
Thanks. I love your idea.
Brill ❤
I would call this a star or wedge method. Thank you for showing us👍
No problem 👍
Good , It's good to hear the inner monolog of an artist
I found every minute of this tutorial helpful. I can easily see myself practicing this, and then learning to visualize the grid on anything I want to draw. Thank you!🙏💙🌵
I definitely like this grid better than the standard. My new favorite drawing tool! ❤️❤️
Great to hear!
I’m looking forward to trying this. Thank you!
Really Good teaching skills and 🙏 THANK YOU
I pride myself in being a trouble shooter, but I never in my wildest dreams thought 💭 to scale up using this method. I am blown away and will certainly use your method. Thank you so very much for making my life easier. This is by far a game changer for me. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😊😊😊
That's great! Thanks for watching :-)
Love you and your channel Michele. You have given me the inspiration to take up drawing again for the first time since O’level Art at school back in 1976.
It's gone, thank goodness, love this tutorial.
So glad!
You make it look so easy! I can't wait to try this. Thanks for teaching this method.
This is so well explained Michele. Thank you for all you do for budding artists.
You are so welcome!
Hi Michele, your videos are fantastic. I watch lots of similar ones, but I always come back to yours, for they are very clear, well structured, professional, no blah-blah. I am very grateful that you help me and a lot of others too.
Thank you!
This is a great concept. Thank you.
I love the precision.
I find this so helpful. I was about to start a drawing using the square grid but this is so much easier. Thank you.
You are welcome :-)
Great tutorial- no more calculator ☺️ Especially useful for me is the section on matching the proportion of the image to the drawing paper. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you. Have not seen this before. Raewyn, Australia
Great tip for me as I am a novice just building skills.
Thank you for another excellent video! These are excellent tips. I have also found it really useful to have a proportional divider - sometimes it can be used as the primary tool for getting the proportions exactly right, but more often I just use it to check out the difficult details of any drawing to get it right.
Yes they are a good thing, but I found most of my students got themselves into trouble with the dividers, loose screw usually (the tool not the students!)
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Loose screws get us into trouble all the time. Thanks! :)
Yes, I was dreading 'having' to learn how to scale traditionally (math flunkie). This method is as simple as it comes, and gives me confidence in giving scaling a crack with some charcoal I've been dying to use in a specific project on a beginners course. I'd love to see your other methods. Cheers.
No problem, thanks for watching ☺️
Loved the video. Thanks. I think you gave that little bird a bit of a hooked beak which is great as it is reassuring to see accomplished artists make little mistakes.
Yes we do, especially when making videos super fast! In reality the image would be adjusted many times until happy.
You are the Queen of Tips!
This is great, Michelle - much simpler than the traditional grid method - can't wait to try it. Thank you.
Brilliant. I’m definitely going to use this method. Ps. I loved how you used your sewing yard stick. I have one too and I love it when one craft crosses over into another ❤
I love to make clothes, art is my 'job' now so sewing is my relaxation!
Great variant to the traditional square grid. Swift and sweet!
That was very helpful! Never saw it done that way before. Thank you!
Thank you so very much new method to draw the sketch. Very grateful to have run into your YT Chanel.
My pleasure 😊
Cannot wait to try this! Looks so much smoothe than locking in to square tiles
This is a fantastic tutorial! Very clear instructions.
Thank you Michele. Always very, very helpful!
Watched this twice. Such a great idea. Thanks 🙏💙🌵🌵
Love how you teach. Thank you! Going to try this. ❤
Thank you so much. I really need to learn how to sketch properly.
Thanks for showing this method. Great instruction.
Fantastic ! Very helpful...Thank you Michelle.
I love this technique!!! Thank you!
Glad you like it!
These are great hints. I knew this method of sizing the papers correctly but do like the use of the diagonal lines rather than the grid! Will have to try that.
Extremely useful! Makes so much sense and so much easier. Thank you!
Been painting /teaching for 58 yrs -cant beat the grid for ACCURACY!
Thanks for the new working grid, that I find it's a lot easier to transfer my pics
Happy to help!
Very helpful, thank you Michele ❤
Thank you for sharing this very easy and accurate technique for drawing.
Thank you for this very helpful video. I always wondered how to draw photos to scale and you have made it so simple to understand and get great results.
I like the way you use the pencil as a guide (:
Great lesson! Thanks!!
Very useful to know this, thank you, Michele
You are welcome!
Brilliant! Thank you for this. Very helpful.
I never seen this type of grid before. I like the idea I'm going to try it. Thanks for making this video!
No problem!
Absolutely brilliant technique! ❤ Thank you so much for sharing this! ✨️🙏
I can’t wait to try this technique. Thank you so much, Michele!
Have fun!
This is a really nice use of ratios and so well explained. It does make changing the size when copying an image far more straightforward. A lot quicker than drawing squares.
Never seen this method before so I'm very keen to try it out, thank you.
Thank you so much for your great way in. Drowning teaching 👍👍🌷
My pleasure 😊
Very useful method! Thanks for sharing
First time I can’t wait to improve asap using this method
Dear Michele, Thank you soo much for sharing! This is gold for me and i am happy that i found you! This will definitely help me because i can´t draw well. greetings from the Netherlands
👋 You are so welcome!
Michele yes yes yes keep on great stuff your skills good tuition
Thanks so much
A wonderful method
Thank you
Helpful technique! Thanks.
I appreciate your video title. It is completely accurate. This faster, easier method makes drawing so much more enjoyable!
Thanks again for your support and wonderful videos ❤😊
Thank you too
Very interesting-I’ve never seen it done this week. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Yes! This looks much easier to do this way. Thank you
Michelle.
You are most welcome!
Thank you. I found this extremely useful. I mainly paint in oils on canvas so I have to figure out some workaround to ensure the canvas is the same proportions as the source image. But I think that's easily fixed by selectively cropping the source image to the proportions of the canvas.
I use grids for portraits and complex scenes where fidelity to the source image is critical. Squaring up is tedious and time consuming when scaling a relatively small source image to a large canvas. This is a huge time saver.
You are a good teacher
Very interesting going to try this Thankyou x
You're such an excellent teacher Michelle! ❤
Thank you! 😃
Thank you for this information. I’ve always struggled with the regular squared off method finding it too pedantic and slow and usually I’ve not got the same proportions . This is going to be so helpful.
Thank you! I love it. Very helpful
Love this method!!
Very clever approach. Thx!!
What a fantastic tutorial, thank you so much Michelle. X
Thanks for watching! 😊
Game changer! Thank you.
I love that you know we skip ahead in videos and had a warning there. I didn't this time but was about to (having learned about the scale from you previously). Thanks for all you do.
Marvelous demonstration. I'm looking forward to giving it a try.
Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you! I'll try this asap!
I love this method thank you!
Thank you again, Michelle. Really excited about trying your grid method for proper proportions in images. You are such a wonderful teacher.💕
Have fun!
Thank you very much for sharing you are a wonderful teacher. I appreciate your channel very much.
So nice of you, thanks for watching!
Van Gogh used a wooden rectangle with twine strung across it in this diagonal pattern to frame the live scene for getting the initial sketch on the canvas or board, which this vid reminded me of. That's another handy use of the same idea.
Really? Someone else mentioned van gogh, thanks for sharing!
I've never seen this technique before. Thanks for sharing this!
Glad it was helpful!
Oh, yes. I think that is going to give me a reference without the full grid, which only sometimes helps. I think this also makes me feel study the photo more and decide where the middle of the drawing should be - promotes a stronger composition. Thanks for your hard work on this video.
Thank you Michele for another easy to follow, informative video, will give this a try.
Thanks for watching!
I haven’t drawn in many years and this technique makes so much sense than using the traditional grid. One day I will try it.
Thank you so much for this clarification! I once was in class where the teacher. mumbled something about making a diagonal line to draw a subject from a photo--- then left the room hastily as she was late for a.cigarette break. You have clear Ed up years of confusion.
Well I've always said smoking is bad, this proves it!
For years I'd been drawing without a Grid. I can see how easier this could make an image become true to it proposition.
Thank you, Michele. I will definitely try this technique!
Wonderful!
I just came across this video this evening and really want to try your method. I really enjoyed watching your demonstration. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I am blown away by how easy that method looks. I will be trying this. Thank you so much because I suck at drawing.
Michele, absolutely brilliant. Thank you. You make it look so easy. I will now put your technique into practice.
Great, hope you like it 😊