There are many complex imagesIt is difficult for an inexperienced person to perform. Significantly facilitates the task of drawing in cells. It can be offered as an interesting developmental activity for children, and as a good support for adult beginning artists.
Why do we need division into squares
If you use drawing in cells, drawingsalways proportional and believable. It’s impossible to make a portrait from life or even copy it from a photo next to it that looks perfectly similar to a beginner. Auxiliary constructions divide the multicomponent image into simple sections, to repeat the lines inside which can be done even by children. The smaller the grid cell, the more accurate the drawing. In order not to get confused in the squares, applying drawing on cells, it is worth marking them with numbers both on the sample and on your work.
Who can use this method
Any artistic work is very useful forchildren. It develops fine motor skills, stimulates the development of imagination, thinking. Drawing lessons in cells will be useful for preschoolers. This approach stimulates the ability to compare, logic and, of course, teaches drawing, to understand the structure of the object.
Well suited this method when performingschool assignments where images are hand-made by hand. Here the child will be able to choose a more complex and beautiful image than he would have done, without using drawing over the cells. The same applies to novice artists.
However, it should be noted that in mostsuch art copying is not welcome in classical art schools, that is, it can be used as a practice for oneself, but it is not worth giving an image drawn from a photograph in such a way. The level of this work will be too different for the better from the pictures of classmates and will not match your true skills to make paintings without a sample. Cheating will be revealed immediately, as soon as you have to perform a similar task in the classroom without any mesh.
How to prepare and apply a pattern
If you decide to use cell-based drawing, the work schemes will be as follows:
1. For children's drawing:
- choose a simple linear image, for example, of an animal, bird, fruit (you can print from the Internet);
- you draw a grid with suitable size cells on the sample;
- do the same with a piece of paper where the young artist will try his hand;
- give the kid a pencil and analyze with him, tell him how to repeat the picture.
It is worth noting that for children there are many ready-made samples for the assignment with the working field and the sample.
2. Drawing in a cage for a teen or novice artist will differ slightly:
- in this case, you need a photograph (you often want to portray a particular person, a landscape, a realistic animal, a car or a flower);
- it is better to prepare the grid in advance on film so as not to spoil the printed image;
- impose a transparent sheet on the sample and fasten it with paper clips so that it does not move in the process of work;
- draw thin lines of the cell on the paper intended for your picture;
- compare how the contours of a realistic object intersect cell lines, repeat on your own sheet.
How to choose cell size
The side of the square is determined individually inin each case. If we talk about drawing in cells for preschoolers, then the size of the module should be chosen larger. Images for kids in any case simple and it makes no sense to use cells in large quantities. It will be difficult for the child to orient in their quantity and he can quickly get tired. The optimal for such a picture would be a grid of 8x8 or 10x10 squares.
Drawing in photo cells by a teenager oradults a difficult process anyway. Here it is better to take the maximum possible number of cells comfortable for you. The more squares, the smaller and more accurate the result will be.
Scaling objects
Of particular note is that drawing in cellsallows you to proportionally change the size of the depicted object. This is very important, as it is not always possible, for example, to print a large-format photo, which one wants to make a picture. This is not even necessary. You just need to do the following:
1. On a small sample, draw a suitable grid;
2. On a large sheet of paper, you increase the size of each cell a certain number of times, and keep the number of squares in columns and lines;
3. Everything else is done in the usual way, only the lines in each cell you will be proportionally increased.
So, you will make any object of the size you need.
Drawing in cells for preschoolers
Baby better to explain everything in the form of a game.So that the child was interested, choose the plots that he likes. To get started, take a very simple image to explain the principle of the assignment, for example, some fruit or vegetable. After only a few light tasks, go to those objects in which there are several components (animals, heroes of fairy tales and cartoons, cars, dolls, flowers).
It is better to take symmetrical objects, and make the grid so that one of the verticals passes through the center of the depicted object.
Never force a child. Let him rest when he wants, even if he made only a few strokes. Help, only in the case of requests from the baby.
Stimulate further assignmentsColoring the resulting contour pictures will help. As materials, you can use colored pencils, felt-tip pens, wax crayons - in a word, any option that the artist himself likes most. It is even worth trying to suggest a method of application or relief of multi-colored clay.
A child may be interested in doing oneimages in two techniques. The grid method will allow you to easily make several copies of a single image. Be sure to make out the work of the baby and hang on the wall so that he sees the result of his work, was proud of him. Praise and attention will be a great incentive.
