The toolkit
The GridMyPic toolkit
There is one tool: you drop in a photo and get a grid you can draw from. What changes is the job around it. A canvas needs its own measurements, a mural needs several sheets, a finished drawing needs checking. Each tool below opens the grid maker set up for one of those jobs. If you would rather read about the method first, the guides live under Learn.
The tools
One tool does the work; these pages open it set up for a particular job.
grid maker
The tool itself. Drop in a photo, set the cell size in real centimetres or inches, drag the grid onto the features, export as PNG or PDF.
transfer drawing to canvas
Print the matching empty grid onto your own sheet at true size, or use ruler strips for a stretched canvas that never sees a printer.
poster print grid
Tile a reference across several sheets with cut lines and glue marks, for wall-sized work from a home printer.
grid drawing worksheet
A blank grid at true size on Letter or A4, with coordinates and a name line, as a class set in one PDF and a link the whole class can open.
composition overlays
Rule of thirds, golden ratio, a draggable golden spiral and symmetry guides, laid over your reference and baked into the export.
perspective grid
A one, two, three or four point grid over your reference, with draggable vanishing points, and an analysis that reads the perspective out of your own photograph.
perspective correction
Photograph a drawing by hand and the sheet arrives as a trapezoid. Mark its corners, see where its edges would meet, and get the paper back flat.
compare drawing to reference
A second workspace: overlay your finished drawing on the reference in nine diagnostic modes to see where the proportions drifted.
New to the method? Read the guides under Learn