Import a reference, align it precisely, configure a dependable grid, and export a clean PNG for your drawing workflow.
Drawing Grid helps artists transfer proportions from a reference image to paper or canvas.
Choose a canvas preset or enter a custom physical size. Configure the grid by row and column count or by cell size, add diagonal overlays, and choose the line color, width, and opacity.
Image Editing mode keeps image gestures separate from canvas navigation. Move, pinch, rotate, crop, center, fit, fill, reset, or adjust the reference opacity. Canvas Navigation mode is available whenever you want to pan or zoom the workspace.
Your complete last-used workspace is saved on-device. Export produces a deliberate 2048-pixel PNG containing the reference and grid without menus, selection borders, indices, or other editor controls.
Drawing Grid 3.4 requires iOS or iPadOS 17.0 and supports iPhone, iPad, rotation, Split View, resizable windows, VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, dark mode, Increase Contrast, Reduce Transparency, and Reduce Motion.
Excellent app. It does, actually, allow you to scale your image size, as well as the proportions of the grid. Take a screen shot to capture the marriage of grid and image. Print it for reference. One suggestion though: the ability to confirm the grid ratios would be fantastic: i.e., 1:1; 2:3; 3:4, etc. There are times you need 1:1, in order to make the proportions come out. Also the ability to add, in another color cross and diagonal lines and additional divisions for quartering the square, or octing it. Or dividing into tri- divisions over top of the grid, like different layers. Perhaps even placing the grid exactly where you want it, for instance, placing the center lines where you want them.Thank you very much for a very useful utility and artist's tool.
This sap does not size pictures very well
Frustrated imovie user
I’m not very happy with this app because the whole grid moves when I try to move my image into Center and put the whole thing off from Center, so why does the grid move when I move my picture?
Great, needs work
Cranialortho
So save photos by clicking bottom button and on- offThis app needs a settings page, not screen clutter. The update ruined the functionality on iPad mini as everything slides with the slider adjustment Please fixYou need to add a save button for user settings, we don't want to have to readjust everything 9x a day.You need to lose the opening instructions page, you have done a great job of natural use of ipad gestures, so add a settings page and an instructions page and de-clutter the app.Lose the slider buttons on the slider panel on the bottom, as said, they don't function now. Get rid of the huge color buttons, move them to a settings page, I feel like I am using an app made for my 2 year old with huge buttons like that, it clutters your app, and like the "store" button? !?! It's huge like a dinner plate, move it to a "settings" pop up page, The only thing on your home page should be pop up page options, your app now has 3 pages, lose 2 of them, make it one page with pop up options Great job on larger central axisGreat job on the thicknesses, but again, De-clutter, and allow user settings to be saved.Cheers
Updates awesome
Carla Morrow
This app was only mildly useful until this latest update. Being able to change the grid size and move the image around makes it an awesome app for drawing and painting. Changing the opacity and colors of the grid is really nice as well. Only thing I'd like to see added it the ability to re square the grid. Each direction of line spacing can be changed on its own, so if you don't square the grid up, your drawing will be off a bit. There is no was to make sure the grid is square other then visually. For a free app, it's a wonderful tool for artists who use the grid system to make their work as realistic as possible.
- Clear Canvas, Grid, Image, and Export tools.
- Separate Canvas Navigation and Image Editing gesture modes.
- Center, Fit, Fill, Rotate 90°, Reset, Crop, and opacity actions.
- Faster Core Graphics grid renderer and corrected columns after Z.
- Complete workspace restoration and safe migration from version 3.3.
- Clean renderer-based PNG export.
- Updated interface, iPad layout, and accessibility.
Version 3.4.0
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