Grid Artist: Draw by Squares

Draw anything, one square at a time. Grid Artist turns a reference photo into an accurate, step-by-step drawing guide using the grid method artists have relied on for centuries: divide the picture into squares, copy one square at a time, and the proportions take care of themselves. HOW IT WORKS 1. Add a photo from your library, the camera, or Files. 2. Pick the paper you are drawing on. Your photo fills it — drag and pinch to choose what fits. 3. Set the grid, or let Grid Artist suggest a size from how much detail your photo actually has. It tells you what one square comes out as on that paper. 4. Tap Ready to Draw. The setup locks and the reference fills the screen. 5. Copy a square, tap it off, and move on. Export or print the gridded sheet whenever you like. ONE CONTROL FOR THE WHOLE GRID • A scale you drag, drawn as a ruler, instead of a page of settings • Square: pick the size in millimetres and get squares that really are square, with part-cells at the edges the sheet cannot divide — exactly as when you rule one by hand • Fit to paper: cells sized to divide the sheet exactly, edge to edge • Either way both axes are worked out for you, so the cells cannot come out oblong by accident • Colour, strength, and labels: none, numbers, A1 edges, or coordinates inside each square • Centre crosshair, diagonals, rule of thirds and golden ratio guides • Pinch to zoom and pan anywhere on the reference CELL FOCUS — THE PART THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING One tap from the full-screen reference blows a single square up to fill the display, with a small overview map so you never lose your place. Mirror it, step back and forth, mark it finished — and Grid Artist moves you on. A colour-coded map shows how far you have come. PREPARE THE REFERENCE • Crop, rotate and flip, locked to your paper's aspect ratio • Exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpen and blur • Nine rendering styles: grayscale, high contrast, edge guide, line art, pencil sketch, simplify, threshold, invert and the original • Paper sizes A3, A4, A5, Letter, Legal, square, photo sizes, or a custom size in millimetres BUILT FOR DRAWING ON REAL PAPER Tap Ready to Draw and the setup locks, so a stray touch cannot move the grid underneath you. The reference fills the screen edge to edge — prop the device beside your paper and tap each square off as you finish it. Rotate it to suit how the device is sitting, and hide the controls when you want only the picture. SMART HELP, ENTIRELY ON YOUR DEVICE • Suggested grid size, measured from the actual edge detail in your photo • Crop to subject, using what the eye lands on first • Line art that traces the outlines so you can copy shapes instead of shading • Subject only, lifting your subject off its background • Proportion guides for portraits: the eye line, nose and mouth All of it runs on your iPhone or iPad, with no network needed. EXPORT AND PRINT • Reference with the grid, reference only, or a blank grid for your own paper • A square-by-square PDF worksheet: one page per square, printed large and labelled • PNG, JPEG and PDF, sized to the paper you picked • AirPrint, AirDrop and the share sheet PROJECTS Every photo, grid, adjustment and finished square is saved as a project. Search them, sort them, duplicate one to try a different grid, and pick up exactly where you left off. ICLOUD SYNC Set a drawing up on your iPhone and it is waiting on your iPad — photo, paper, grid and the squares you have marked off. It uses your own iCloud account, and you can switch it off in Settings to keep everything on one device. NO ACCOUNT. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. Grid Artist has no sign-in, no subscription prompts and no analytics. The only thing it ever sends anywhere is your own work, to your own iCloud, and only if you leave sync on. Everything else — the grid, the styles, the on-device help — works with no network at all. Made for anyone learning to draw, and for anyone who already can and just wants the measuring done for them.