DrawGrid vs Art Reference

DrawGrid is an intuitive and elegant app tailored for artists who utilize the traditional grid method to achieve precise and proportional drawings. By seamlessly overlaying customizable grids onto your reference images, DrawGrid simplifies the initial stages of your creative process, allowing you to focus on the art itself. Key Features: Versatile Grid Styles: Choose from three distinct grid styles - Crossline, Square, and Rectangle - to best suit your artistic needs. Customizable Grids: Adjust the number of rows and columns, line thickness, and color to tailor the grid to your specific project requirements. Image Filter: Apply a mono filter to your reference images, enhancing contrast and simplifying complex visuals for easier replication. By automating the grid creation process and offering these enhanced features, DrawGrid eliminates the tedious task of manual grid drawing, enabling you to embark on your artistic journey with ease and confidence. Whether you're a seasoned artist or a beginner exploring the grid method, DrawGrid is your reliable companion for creating artworks with accurate proportions and meticulous detail.

Artists Reference is made for painters, illustrators, and traditional artists who work with real materials, not pixels. It gives you the digital reference tools you need while you're creating physical art. Key Features - Gallery: Take a photo of your finished work, add a frame, and view them all together in your personal gallery. - Value Study Mode: Instantly view your reference in 7-value scale to see shadows and highlights or greyscale to see tone and contrast clearly. - Gridlines: Helps get your under-sketch down accurately. - Side-by-Side View: Compare your reference and your canvas at the same time, optimized for tablets and stands. - Crop and Frame Tools: Adjust composition and aspect ratio of your reference to match your canvas before you begin. - Collections: Curated starter projects to help you practice and improve, including Animals, Architecture, Botanical, Figure, Landscape, Master Study, Portrait, and Still Life. - Color harmonies: Experiment with color harmonies to define the feeling if your piece and save swatches - Offline Friendly: Works anywhere, even in the studio or outdoors. - Clean, Focused Design: No ads. No clutter. Just the reference tools you need. - All of your artwork is private and only saved in your personal icloud. No artwork is visble to the internet or AI models Made for Traditional Artists Whether you're painting with oils, gouache, watercolor, or charcoal, Artists Reference helps you translate what you see into confident compositions and balanced values. Start with curated Collections to build your skills, or bring your own references for any project. No AI art is used for any of the starter project references in this app. All photos are attributed to the original artists with links to their portfolio.