What do you think about using a grid when drawing? You know, drawing a grid on a picture, then drawing another grid on a piece of paper and simply transferring it. Do you consider it cheating, or not?
as long as you are still drawing the picture there is no such thing as cheating in art. because art isn't a contest. useing a grid gives you many points of reference for face and body porportions, i don't know how THAT is cheating.
Many people in history have used grids, including Vincent Van Gogh. It's a great tool when you want something to be precise.
i don't use grids mainly cause i draw from models and i don't really see the point, i just go by eye art is a personal thing, if you like grids than use grids
When I'm doing a really large piece and I'm using a small picture, I'll use a grid to get the outline drawn, then erase the grid and go from there. But, I use them only when I want the picture to turn out exactly like the smaller picture. I don't think it's cheating, just something to help out.
Many traditional air-brush artists use grids, they call them ''idiot lines'' as you can't really make any mistakes when your copying and scaling up an image. Another technique they use is over-head projectors to scale up images. Grids are OK, it just makes the perspective more accurate
