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I'm sure there's other grid-tutorials out there, but I was recently asked about this particular method so stitched these photos together I had from a Pencil Kings forum tutorial. The nice thing about it is that the combination of diagonals and vertical/horizontals create a lot of reference points, and you only have to measure out your initial rectangles. It falls together pretty quickly.

I'm not big on grids these days but I did use them back at AAU (where I learned this method) for some of the big charcoal portraits, like Dame Helen fav.me/d2hx5vu and my final portrait for the class fav.me/d2fg7i9 . Grids are definitely handy when you want to skip the tedious difficulty of drawing and get right to the tedious difficulty of shading! They're a great study or precision tool.

You can just make one in any old rectangle in Photoshop and save it, then resize it to fit your image. As long as the image and the copy are the same size or in proportion it'll work just fine.

Description
I'm sure there's other grid-tutorials out there, but I was recently asked about this particular method so stitched these photos together I had from a Pencil Kings forum tutorial. The nice thing about it is that the combination of diagonals and vertical/horizontals create a lot of reference points, and you only have to measure out your initial rectangles. It falls together pretty quickly.

I'm not big on grids these days but I did use them back at AAU (where I learned this method) for some of the big charcoal portraits, like Dame Helen fav.me/d2hx5vu and my final portrait for the class fav.me/d2fg7i9 . Grids are definitely handy when you want to skip the tedious difficulty of drawing and get right to the tedious difficulty of shading! They're a great study or precision tool.

You can just make one in any old rectangle in Photoshop and save it, then resize it to fit your image. As long as the image and the copy are the same size or in proportion it'll work just fine.