Arts
Marking up your reference is a great way to kickstart a reliable process of getting a likeness. No I’m not talking about tracing. If you could design an optimal custom and unique grid for each image in particular, how would you go about doing it? I offer up some ideas to think about it because it's something that has really worked for me in the past working digitally as well as traditional. Marking up the images encourages you to think in a structural way, think about the anatomy underneath and still get the proportions accurate. Of course it requires you to have the skills to transfer the measurements and I recommend you do that with hand-eye co-ordination.. One of the most valuable skills an artist can possess; measuring with the eye and getting a feel for proportions. The more you draw correctly, the more it puts you on the right path to free yourself from the training wheels eventually. I also mention some really great free anatomy resources you don’t wanna miss.