distortion grids
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One interesting way of making the familiar strange is using grids. This method involves dividing a photograph or one of your drawings into even squares. Then you make a second, distorted grid (with the same number of squares) to guide you in creating a new drawing.
Make the second grid on tracing paper, then slip it under a fresh sheet of drawing paper and place it on a light table. Make your distorted drawing simply by following the original, square for square. For some people this kind of work is too mechanistic, but I find it relaxing, and the results are often surprising.
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REFERENCE GRID Reference grids are always rectangular and divided into even squares. Label the horizontal axis 1, 2, 3, etc. and the vertical axis a, b, c, etc.
Guy: this is FPO. Please layer high res art 3-58a & 3-58b to replace FPO
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Guy: This is FPO. Please layer art rt 3-58c & 3-58d to replace FPO
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DISTORTED GRID Grids can be distorted in numerous ways, so long as you have the same number of squares and they’re numbered in the same way as your reference grid. Do this grid on tracing paper, then slip it under a fresh sheet of paper and place them on a light table to make your distorted drawing. You can reuse the grid for other drawings.
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