It’s not easy to make an abstract painting about any subject. “Most paintings are about locations, social/political issues or personal experiences. There are going to boxes that your draw that connect two other boxes where you may have to artificially adjust your lines so everything joins up correctly.Įrasing and adjusting is fine but the more you have to do it, the more it tells you that your observation is off slightly.Īs I say, just a bit of fun and better than Sudoku! Hopefully, it helps to improve your observation skills too.What is your favorite subject matter, and what goes into perfecting an artistic vision?
As you copy each box, you're going to have to be careful about the positions of your marks. if you fill in box 1 on your blank grid, then box 2, then box 3 you'll build the image up neatly and pretty quickly you'll recognise what it is. Move along the top row of your jumbled reference, then the second row and so on. So copy this into box 22 on your blank grid. The next box on the jumbled reference is number 22. So copy this into box 2 on your blank grid. Copy each box on the jumbled reference into the appropriate box on your blank grid BUT follow the order on the jumbled reference.įor example, the first box (top-left corner) on the jumbled reference in number 2. You can do this mentally to keep your blank grid less cluttered.Ĥ. So the top row will be 1,2,3,4 and 5 and the next row will be 6,7,8,9,10 and so on. Number each box on your blank grid from 1 to 35, starting in the top left corner. Any size boxes on your blank grid will do but make sure they're square.ģ. Print out the PDF (the blank grid is deliberately a different size to the jumbled reference grid) or if you're working on a tablet, draw yourself a grid that is 5 boxes wide x 7 boxes high and get the jumbled reference on your screen. It contains the jumbled up grid and a blank gridĢ. Download the PDF at the bottom of this blog post. Yes, you'll notice facial features in some of the boxes so it's not perfect. The line drawing below has been gridded and then jumbled up so it's unrecognisable. I've come up with a puzzle that is a bit of fun and also takes away (mostly) the curse of knowledge. So as a training exercise it has its limitations. If you want to further enhance the "abstractness" and train your brain to see shapes and not things, do your grid drawings upside down.īut a gridded up photo is still decipherable. You start to look at lines and shapes and negative space within the box. When you divide your reference into boxes, the content within each box becomes more abstract. We go through several in the Drawing Essentials course. There are several ways to train your artistic eye to look at shapes instead of tangible stuff.
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