Do you use a grid?
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Printed Date: 27 October 2025 at 4:24pm
Topic: Do you use a grid?
Posted By: acronym
Subject: Do you use a grid?
Date Posted: 23 August 2010 at 11:19am
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Hi I was wondering do you guys use a grid to pixel art, I know that sounds ridiculous but I wasn't sure since I'm not clear the what the method for this kind of thing? |
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 23 August 2010 at 12:13pm
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Some do use grids to draw pixelart as its a method that can be used in any art. Check out tomic's gallery, some of his pieces use the grid method.
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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 23 August 2010 at 12:14pm
Could you explain what you mean please? I know what the word "grid" means, I'm just not sure what you mean by "use". 
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 23 August 2010 at 1:21pm
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http://www.art-made-easy.com/drawing-using-a-grid.html - Grid Method ...not to be confused with a trace. ------------- |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 23 August 2010 at 2:59pm
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Ah, gotcha.
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Posted By: Antifarea
Date Posted: 23 August 2010 at 5:37pm
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True pixel artists don't use grids HAHAHAHHAHAHHAA. I'm just messing around... I never found the grid of any advantage to me personally. |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 3:11pm
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I like how in that example page:
-the artist doesn't know how to properly draw flowing lines, and instead makes a bunch of scribbles -she still manages to skew the mouth -ugly 'pencil smearing' is used for shading -clothing wrinkles no longer make sense -the necklace is made from ¼-inch plastic tubing -the sense of depth is almost lost in short: that people not particularly skilled go out and educate others. It's even cooler to look at her gallery. Looking through it shows she doesn't even use the grid herself it seems (which makes it funny that she's teaching it) http://www.art-made-easy.com/images/drawing2.jpg - Misaligned bad and skewed head http://www.art-made-easy.com/portrait-of-girl.html - Eyes don't need to align, right? http://www.art-made-easy.com/images/Oliver-this-one.jpg - Nah, eyes don't need to align. Not dissing 'the grid' technique. Though I don't use it myself, it can be very useful. Personally I think you're better off doing this: -making sketch -overlay to see differences, you can move the overlay to inspect specific areas (for instance you might have one face dead on, and the other face too, but they too far away from eachother, then just check per face) -make better sketch -overlay -repeat as much as you want This'll let you work on understanding where you make errors. For instance, I tend/tended to make eyes to big, which is something that's not as obvious in the grid method. ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Lengen
Date Posted: 25 August 2010 at 9:25pm
| Grid's are useful for taking one portioning yourself (one bit at a time). I don't use it, but it could help. Personal preference my friend. |
Posted By: Fingerfoods
Date Posted: 26 August 2010 at 11:43am
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I actually haven't heard much about the grid method and never gave it much thought. Sounds useful, but tedious. I'd rather use snader's method.
Originally posted by snader
http://www.art-made-easy.com/images/Oliver-this-one.jpg - Nah, eyes don't need to align. Holycrap. I'm keeping the lights on tonight. D: |
Posted By: Antifarea
Date Posted: 27 August 2010 at 3:28pm
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HAHAHAHAHA... I haven't laughed soo hard in my life like I did after watching that picture... and no pun intended to the artist, it's just soo comical to see a mistake like that done, when the rest of the stuff looks promising. Anyways, I do suggest grids if you're sketching... in pixel art, to me personally it isn't as usable unless you're doing tilesets or something of the sort. Heck, not even for that I use it. |
Posted By: KittenMaster
Date Posted: 29 August 2010 at 10:40am
| Still a better artist than I am, at least. |