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Linda A Doll Grid
System ©1983 (Only available to students of Linda Doll Workshops)
What is the Linda A. Doll Grid System?
The Grid
System was designed as a working instrument and as a teaching aid. It is a series of small grids on transparent plastic along
with a master grid and was created to help artist enlarge sketches, drawings or photos to full painting size easily and quickly.
Why the Linda A. Doll Grid System?
The Grid System is designed for the artist who seeks a method of advancing
from the thumbnail or sketch to completed drawing quickly and accurately. Sketching and drawing are a building process and
many artists prefer the freedom to sketch without concern for size or placement. The study is created, cropped appropriately,
than scaled to the painting size needed. The Grid System will scale any sketch up to 1/4 sheet (10 x 14), 1/2 sheet (14
x 20), 3/4 sheet (18 x 24) or full sheet (20 x 28) as well as miscellaneous other sizes.
How Does the Linda A.
Doll Grid System Work?
For those with experience using a grid system, the Linda A. Doll Grid System and how it works
is probably self-evident, but a few hints or suggestions my help in the understanding and in the use of the system.
QUARTER
SHEET (10 X 14)
1. Place the entire small plastic transparent grid over your thumbnail sketch, drawing or photo
the way you would like the drawing to fit on your painting sheet. Try several sizes to see which you prefer. Secure it down
with a small piece of tape. Always tape from the back. **Notice the larger the grid, the smaller the objects or
figures the smaller the grid the larger the objects or figures.
2. Place a sheet of 11 x 14 tracing paper over
Grid A (16 boxes). Secure with a small piece of tape to keep it from shifting. You should be able to see the Grid A
through the piece of tracing paper. Draw on the tracing paper, dont draw on the grid itself.
3. Starting at any
point, repeat the drawing using the boxes and x lines to guide you through the placement of your drawing. Complete the drawing
in one box and then continue to the next until the entire drawing is done. You will have a 10 x 14 drawing ready to transfer
to your watercolor paper or canvas. (This can be done with a light box or with transfer paper.)
FULL SHEET (20 X
28)
1. Place the entire small plastic grid over your thumbnail, drawing or photo. This is the same small grid you
used in the quarter sheet above.
2. Place a sheet of 11 x 14 tracing paper over the enclosed Grid B. (4 boxes)
Secure with a small piece of tape to keep it from shifting. You should be able to see the Grid B through the piece of tracing
paper.
3. Draw 1/4 of the thumbnail, drawing or photo. (Top left 4 boxes) Cover the other 3/4 of the drawing if
it is confusing to see the entire drawing or photo.
4. Draw the second 1/4 (Top right 4 boxes) on a second sheet of
tracing paper, then the third 1/4 (Bottom 4 left boxes), then the last or fourth 1/4 (Bottom right 4 boxes). Tape these 4
sheets together when done and you will have a full sheet (20 x 28) drawing ready to transfer to your watercolor or canvas.
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If this is confusing Xerox Grid B 4 times and tape together to make a full sheet grid and use one large sheet of tracing
paper over it.
HALF SHEET (14 X 20)
1. Place the entire small plastic transparent grid over 1/2 of your thumbnail,
drawing or photo. Secure it down with a piece of tape. ****** Important - Remember this time the
small transparent grid covers only 1/2 of your thumbnail, drawing or photo.
2. Place a sheet of 11 x 14 tracing
paper over Grid A. Secure it down with small piece of tape. You should now be able to see Grid A through the piece of
tracing paper.
3. Starting at any point, repeat the drawing using the boxes and x lines to guide you through the placement
of your drawing. Complete the drawing in one box and then continue to the next until 1/2 the drawing is done.
4.
Draw the 2nd half of the thumbnail, drawing or photo on a 2nd sheet of tracing paper, tape the 2 sheet together and you now
have a 1/2 sheet drawing ready to transfer to your watercolor paper or canvas. (This can be done with a light box or with
transfer paper.)
THREE QUARTER SHEET (18 X 24)
1. Find the small transparent grid in which 3 1/2 by 3 1/2
of the boxes cover the entire sketch, drawing or photo. Omit 1/2 of the right row and 1/2 of the bottom row of boxes.
2.
Complete as for a full sheet omitting 1/2 of the right row and 1/2 of the bottom row of boxes. You now have a three quarter
sheet (17 1/2 x 24 1/2 drawing ready to transfer to your 18 x 24 painting.
Additional Suggestions:
Using
the top two rows will make a long thin drawing.
Using 3 by 4 boxes will make a perfect square drawing.
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