How To GRID a REALISTIC PORTRAIT DRAWING!

[@manishac6678]

i never got chance to go any art class but now i got a teacher.. thank u dan.

[@DanBeardshaw]

manisha c thanks!

[@TheAverageMarcus]

Me too

[@abdulbasitmansha4869]

@@DanBeardshaw u are our teacher even I could not take art classes

[@loutenant2817]

I learned this in art class and it was super fun and easy and now I'm just trying to get a recap.

[@TheRLDoggo]

@@loutenant2817same lol

[@TheAutistWhisperer]

I've actually learnt more about artistic techniques from your videos than I ever did at my school and college years. Well done.

[@edwgwilymedwgwilym2827]

TheAutistWhisperer me too!!

[@royelsholz1260]

Wow

[@mitchellpavlicek4818]

you really went to college for art?

[@mylinejosezamora757]

Lol what's the purpose of the tuition fee then?

[@aaronfraser9884]

That’s a little sad tho

[@jamilgotcher5456]

Really enjoyed your video! Grids are also a great way to be able to increase the size of your drawing and keep the proportions. Make a one inch grid on your drawing but then if you want the final drawing or painting to be twice the size, draw 2 inch grid squares on your canvas or paper, then just draw whats in the square from your original drawing. I think the grid method makes the task of drawing a portrait seam manageable because you are just drawing whats in the square, until square by square you've finished your drawing.

[@jennysausages]

So helpful! I didn't think about this and the reference was extra long.

[@camcab147]

I often get asked why I hand knit socks when I can buy machine made mass produced socks from the store. Well, hand knit socks are made to fit me perfectly or any of my recipients. Hand dyed yarn (not dyed by me) gives it a uniqueness and a lot of love goes into every stitch. My husband and son love the socks I make them. That’s my parallel to your hyper realistic drawing vs photograph 😎

[@warmteacosy]

In all fairness, there's much more value to your handmade socks than an exact copy drawing. In my opinion.

[@danielhateley8290]

It’s like when people say why send a letter when you can just email 📧.. nothing better than a hand written letter and nothing better than a hand done drawing ✍️.. it means something!! That’s why I don’t like computer drawings!!

[@GapedCeiling]

A trick I was taught when I learned this method was to used a second sheet of paper or a note card and cut a square the same size as your grid in it. Then use the notecard to cover your image you are copying from. it allows you to remove everything around the box you are working on. Really helpful when shading

[@hungrybois5954]

I've done several grid drawings in the past I'm quite proud of. I got to the point where free hand sketching portraits came very naturally to me and I could accurately eyeball it. But years of working full time jobs and having my drawing time significantly decrease has put my portrait skills in serious disrepair. Thanks for your video to remind me on how to go back to basics! Gonna start one today!

[@davidweirauch849]

photo realism, hyper realism, why? do believe that question has been around since the camera. short answer, we are artists, not photographers. to say nothing of testing our skills, honing them, and giving them "birth". agree with you, griding, is a good way to get started. know some guys that use it all the time.

[@obieldenook1142]

I learned this in middle school by a great teacher and one thing I learned doing this is that I made my lines a bit blocky from the image I was trying to draw. I had to go back and redo some by making smoother connecting lines and make it look more organic. The grid I used was a little bigger because it was a bigger image but if I were to redo that image, I would use a 1 inch x 1 inch grid like this one. You did well in showing off how to do this. I'm learning a lot here.

[@cryingoverspilledmilk9569]

Grid method is actually amazing! It helps me a lot!

[@rackctsz206]

Oi jotaro

[@guidedbylight]

great stuff my Grandad taught me this technique when i was 8 and like previous comments below you have a great understanding not only in an academic aspect but a teaching manor TY 😊 RESPECT!

[@Gamer-vf7xu]

This really helps since I'm working on an architecture project, thanks ❤️😊

[@Alexg3433]

Gamer31504 did u draw a x picture ?

[@sila5268]

I was actually waiting for something to draw using a grid and you posted this video. It was perfect so thank you

[@Sir-IKON]

when I was a kid word search type books always had grid drawing games. it helped with freehand

[@LatestNews-vg2hh]

I recommend using t square, it can make your grid lines more accurate and fast

[@dantesaint2619]

This method is by far the best for any drawing, its precise. The way i number the graph is on top i write 1-18 or however many squares you have and on the side i write a-q or however many squares you have to work with and youll never get confused. X axis numeral, y axis alphabetical

[@elpsycongroo15]

Bro you Are like a Human Printer

[@lc-cf2db]

Sneha Sharma no, those are called women

[@erickleyva4730]

The Laughing Pro 😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭

[@earthquvke9510]

The Laughing Pro oh my god 💀😂

[@treetheory8465]

i think that this is the best and most in depth drawing guide so far and the grid method is really great. thanks again Danny!

[@DanBeardshaw]

Treetheoryexbl642 thanks man:)

[@michaelvayan9682]

I've completed my grid then taped it the window (or light box) to lightly trace the outline with graphite. Eliminates any erasing of grid lines. I also might decrease the scale of detailed parts like eyes, noses, mouths etc. If your scale for the drawing is one inch you might decrease it to a half inch for added accurate detail in smaller areas. Fun stuff.

[@issrabi]

Yay you don't even know man I literally wait for you to post a video :P

[@bakhtawarsaeed4392]

issrabi same dude 🙋

[@lisengel2498]

Such an enjoyment to follow your videos - and I think there are qualities from a hyperrealistic drawing that goes beyond that it could be regarded as just a reproduction of a photo that already exists - because surface, texture and the total feeling of the drawing is different from a photo and the process of re-creating is also very different because drawing is very tactile - you can feel every little form of the image -

[@brendaminor6804]

Thank you. Your tips were good. I enjoyed observing you make your grid.

[@yasminaaliedeh6075]

You're so beautiful your videos are helpful and your drawings are AMAZING . hope that one day ill be good as u at drawing.

[@GraffitiOne]

After watching the video, im so hyped to draw in a portrait style, thanks man for the help!

[@jeaner2966]

Again, LOVE your videos!!Also love your voice and accent. Thanks for sharing what you know!!

[@otodidact6134]

"Say my name" Just finished binge watching Breaking Bad, great series, kept wondering what's gonna happen next, anyways, your tuts are great yo.

[@tituspittenger1831]

thanks so much. I am very good at free hand drawing but wasn't sure how to do graphing very well thanks

[@nenephene421]

Amazing!👍👍

[@chrisc.4144]

I use grids from time to time. After a while they get so tedious to make, though.

[@DanBeardshaw]

Chris C. Yeah they do, now and then they are helpful and worth it though.

[@entitree.]

I find that doing grids is easy since the actually drawings take hours on end, so the grid seems like the quickest step.

[@sallykim4631]

what do i do when the refernce paper and the paper I'm going to draw on is not the same size

[@davidbull9681]

Gridding is cheating, and does not help a artists skills. Like a athlete taking drugs to enhance their performance.

[@zoesosa7524]

@@davidbull9681 not true at all, i can free hand but i started using grids its a great way to work quicker and more accurately . its like a athlete practicing til perfection, think of it like training wheels on a bike. also, many professional artist use/used grids before in their works, why are you on a grid video anyway if its cheating to you?

[@bobbymalta73]

Thanks for sharing dear friend bless you.

[@GlennGuillorySFO]

Dan, good review. I learned about using a light pencil, yellow, on dark backgrounds, but before did it with 4B. Your proposed schedule of various drawings seems great. Keep up the good work. We are all feeling really lucky to have found you. Your new intro was a bit fast for an old man like me, maybe a second instead of a mili-second would be better. I would like to know where you live and work-country, region. You inspire!

[@DanBeardshaw]

Glenn Guillory Thanks Glenn

[@cactusjackthedesertrat5601]

Awesome video thank you very much

[@patricialeclair1310]

Dan I paint a portrait starting with a grid for many years. Grid is a great way to start a portrait.

[@exoressdelivers70]

How do you use the grid method if you want to draw the picture bigger than the photograph?

[@carolineb494]

You are just so damned skilled!!!

[@spillbang1948]

ty i learnt more here in first few mins than i do a double lesson in art in school ty

[@jeanmoore7638]

Hi just a thought if you use the grid method a lot you might find buying a quilters acrylic ruler it makes drawing the grid really easy as you can see through it.

[@brickmotionfilms8041]

Looking forward to watching your progress in this series. It might be shameful but I often trace over the photo in photoshop on a separate layer (just the main elements) Then I put a grid on another layer and then print just the grid and line drawing at the scale I am doing my drawing. I then transfer the grid and the line drawing to my paper. In photoshop I then turn the image back on with the grid over the top and then refer to this when I am drawing using the grid and the line drawing for positioning the fine details. I know its cheating but who cares, as you say enjoy the process. 👍

[@junjunbogart2543]

Awesome Video! It inspires me to draw😁

[@Zeus-cy2fu]

You are a great teacher..

[@ClearlyCrackHead]

Bro I am your big fan,I love your sketches.🙋

[@parasr8064]

bro you are of great help!! thanks for your efforts 🤘🤘🤘

[@DanBeardshaw]

PARAS R no worries, thank you

[@parasr8064]

Dan Beardshaw 😀😀

[@Alex-bp8bp]

It's like sketching a puzzle !

[@VidekanicMarko]

Thank you for this, sir.

[@maggithompson3455]

Great video and no wasting time faffing,thanku.

[@tatairmadoze]

You're great! I hope I get that good one day!

[@cmeblu75]

Awesome video!! Oh gosh what artist hasn’t been hours into a drawing and had to trash it 😩?!? Painful lessons on just how important the initial sketch is!!!

[@astraviart816]

Did anyone else do a class project in 2nd or 3rd grade where everyone got their own square and put together it was a picture? Idk that’s what this reminded me of. Just me?

[@retros5385]

Johny deep is that youuuuu!!

[@leofromthe9159]

Love breaking bad 505 homies were u at?👀🤚

[@haydenash4wdadventures680]

Awesome video

[@jekjeklaron7008]

thank you so much bro this is a really big help❤️🙏

[@chukudichris1937]

Just wanna say thank you Dan

[@peter2645]

Awesome videos bro. Appreciate them very much 👍👍✍

[@Antikakgt]

Thank you thank you thank you 😭🙏🙏

[@aaron_osborne]

Words that show their meaning, this would be a fun video idea. Doing that project in Computer art, my word is chaos. 😂

[@user-no6kb1cd5w]

Nice video.

[@DanBeardshaw]

Ori go thanks

[@Nimbusdraws]

Hey Dan! Big fan of yours.

[@DanBeardshaw]

Sanjeet Bante I appreciate that thanks!

[@AvanDManyxxx]

Awesome job

[@courtneyharker7504]

Do you have a program or website where you get your high resolution pictures from? They alway have so much detail!

[@ashvinikumar3981]

Nice one bro,I've been waiting for you to post a video on grids,thanks😊😊

[@vickybidlan7515]

grid guiding is a key element

[@misfitskarma9383]

I was doubting my drawing skills because I am using grid to draw, didn't know it was actually a technique. I always thought I was cheating somehow and has no skill.

[@hithashetty916]

No that's not true... Grid is just one method out of so many to draw portraits... It's not 'CHEATING' as people call it to be... It take hell lot of skill and patience to use grid method and apparently grid method is the best way to get more accurate results!

[@ghiealanes1713]

keep it up bro nice kind of art

[@dharmeshkumarjoshi8029]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[@user-od7lf5yh1y]

Thank you.

[@sqwergazali3152]

Thank u sooooo much

[@reginadrai5475]

i love ur drawings

[@David4cars]

Here mate, you are truly amazing at art, im guessing ur from the northeast of england same as me, i've also liked and subbed, i also am an artist but not as good as you mate, keep up the good work, you are an inspiration ,

[@DanBeardshaw]

Thanks Dave, really appreciate that. keep up the drawing mate

[@lemuelfayiah9222]

Think I have decided to be one of ur followers bro

[@donjuliuswilson5387]

Thanks 🙏🏽.

[@davidpumanes8088]

Hi dan im your big fan ! Nice vids!

[@DanBeardshaw]

Mr. MeltingDown thanks!

[@issrabi]

I love how you say "attempt to draw" but you're so good xD gj keep it up bro :)

[@dare_he_is]

I’ve used the grid method when I first began doing art but as I continued to draw I began to imagine a grid however I noticed a dip in my creativity and my proportions were becoming off whenever I’d draw from reference or a live model

[@musicmylife44]

Den u r a great artist

[@johanecheverria3102]

How to skin If you can barely see details in some areas? Im getting slopy and old looking even after smudge trying to guess what i see sometimes How to fix this?

[@iamgod4u907]

WALTER WHITE

[@sw3rt353]

How Do you make the image the same size as the paper or the same dimensions

[@movisesandwichia2]

How if my references at the phone and I don't have printer plese

[@yippycat5303]

cute devil go to editing and zoom out a bit, then automatically there will be lines

[@gdwscott]

The problem I have with the grid method is getting the grid lines to completely erase out when I’m finished.

[@MartinaMatak-nq4nv]

I never used grids or anything with drawing, i do everything free hand but just for the fun of it i wanna try out grid to see will it confuse or help me

[@susansarts4426]

i loved how you draw gridding thank you! but how if i gonna make into big canvas? i just can't figure out

[@alcyonedreams]

Are you sketching in the H pencil too, not just the grid? Cheers. Love the vids x

[@karunayoga_art]

this is really good :)

[@toxinaz9882]

Thank you Dan😉

[@kayeslyngil672]

Where do you find an hd photo for reference

[@muhammadowais3314]

i also have the same question

[@muhammadowais3314]

how can we know that it is CC0 licensed?

[@Jxstvib1ng]

Lin Chen omg ....I’m lazy

[@fours4ker381]

Finally, hopefully by this I can draw a pencil that draws the pencil that draws the pencil that I use to draw the pencil that draws the pencil that draws the pencil I am using.

[@jazminrocha7571]

Really great video! How do I make a grid proportional if I want to make the drawing big though?

[@michaelvayan9682]

Instead of 1 inch squares you make 2 inch squares...bingo your drawing is now 4x bigger.

[@Skatersrebel]

Can you make a studio tour video

[@DanBeardshaw]

Nautical Noise yeah you can mainly see all my studio in the video haha it’s that small

[@girlthatcooks4079]

Thanx:3 please donsider on doing how to draw hair !

[@jennylyngonzales4209]

brba💚

[@aljaylerios8007]

Him: Attempt to draw a Hyper Realism Me: ...

[@U_B10]

I thought the guy he was drawing was Steve Jobs

[@nicole02pac]

100k let's goooo!!!!

[@DanBeardshaw]

It's Nicole 🎉🎉🎉

[@nova3599]

Hey can we use this method to draw animals and nice video it helped me alot

[@denizarasli3209]

Hi, I need to grid my pictures

[@EgirlBuni]

Vid starts @: 2:02

[@theparkins]

I don't have a printer for the images. Is there an electronic way of doing the grids and then keeping the image on a laptop?

[@Spiderman-yu3bc]

new sub here

[@Katie-or4tt]

Quick question can you show us how to size the reference image to the full length of an a4 page and print it successfully (preferably on Microsoft word)

[@LarnedJustin]

Hey Dan, the last drawing I did using the grid method, I used a 3h very lightly to draw the grid on paper. But what I noticed as I got into the shading was that the grid lines would show up white. Even though they were drawn very lightly. In some cases I just could not get rid of the grid lines. I was using 114lb KOH-I-NOOR paper for colored pencil.

[@carolineb494]

Larned Justin I'll wait for Dan's response but my quick interjection is 3H was too hard and left indentations..even though you were outlining lightly. But hey, I'm new to this and I defer to the more experienced...Dan da man!!!

[@LarnedJustin]

I think you may be right.

[@RobertF-]

Just want to say that I've noticed that harder grade H leads like 3H, are not easily covered over by softer B leads like 2B, even if they're not pressed deeply into the paper and making indentations. For example, if you take an H lead and cover an area of paper with it, even without pressing very hard and making indentations, and then go over that with a 2B or 3B or other soft B pencil, you will see that the 2B pencil will go much darker over the blank paper than it will over the H pencil marks. The hard H pencil graphite will kind of shine through the 2B pencil marks. This can be a pretty cool graphite technique if used wisely. But for something like grid marks where one would probably not want them visible in the final picture, it would be unwanted. The best bet might be to draw grid lines very lightly with a soft B lead pencil like a 2B instead of a hard H lead pencil like a 3H, so that it doesn't shine through the final drawing strokes.

[@LarnedJustin]

Thanks, Robert, I will certainly give that a try next time.

[@DanBeardshaw]

Larned Justin I agree with the comments above, perhaps try a different grade. When I create grid lines with the pencil I hardly touch the paper it’s that lightly done. However, once you have drawn in the outlines you could erase the grid before working further.