Grid Technique

ASSIGNMENTS

ASSIGNMENT ONE

The Grid Method

  1. Recreate, to the best of your ability, the planes above using the skills you acquired in the previous lesson to establish the base planes needed to complete this exercise. 

  2. Divide the boxes diagonally with an X, and again with a straight line through the vertical and horizontal centers using the center of the X to place them.

  3. Repeat this process two more times, creating a more intricate grid of reference points that can be used to build up more complicated patterns and designs.

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ASSIGNMENT TWO

Adding Designs

  1. Duplicate the abstract cloud pattern as presented above using the grid method. Make sure that you slightly alter the pattern

ASSIGNMENT THREE

Creating Your Own Design

  1. Establish the height for the boxes and add in the receding lines extending from them.

  2. Find the far end of the boxes, making sure that the distance between the two shrink as you move towards the Vanishing Point.

  3. Divide the boxes diagonally, vertically, and horizontally using the VP to establish horizontal centers.

  4. The process for drawing the circles is the same, however the final result is obviously not as wide.

  5. Join the Draw Daily Discord to submit your work and to ask for feedback! 

BEGINNER

Simple Pouch

  1. Fill the page with squares that recede towards two different vanishing points, alternating between the three different VPs.

  2. Once the boxes are established, divide the boxes, using the appropriate VPS to add the vertical and horizontal centers. 

  3. Although the squares are oddly shaped, drawing the ellipses remains the same, even if the final result appears slightly skewed.  

  4. Join the Draw Daily Discord to submit your work and to ask for feedback! 

INTERMEDIATE

Dragon Scale Pouch

  1. Fill the page with squares that recede towards two different vanishing points, alternating between the three different VPs.

  2. Once the boxes are established, divide the boxes, using the appropriate VPS to add the vertical and horizontal centers. 

  3. Although the squares are oddly shaped, drawing the ellipses remains the same, even if the final result appears slightly skewed.  

  4. Join the Draw Daily Discord to submit your work and to ask for feedback! 

ADVANCED

Simple Pouch

  1. Fill the page with squares that recede towards two different vanishing points, alternating between the three different VPs.

  2. Once the boxes are established, divide the boxes, using the appropriate VPS to add the vertical and horizontal centers. 

  3. Although the squares are oddly shaped, drawing the ellipses remains the same, even if the final result appears slightly skewed.  

  4. Join the Draw Daily Discord to submit your work and to ask for feedback!