GRID STEP. You can print out the base construction lines and start drawing on tracing paper or you can draw the grid layout yourself using the following steps.
• Draw the upper border of your drawing. • From the upper border, moving downward, tentatively determine the position of the head and draw an oval to represent its approximate size. • Draw a vertical line through 1/3 of the width of the head. This will be the central vertical line of the figure. • From the upper border of the figure, draw 7 identical segments equal to the height of the head, and one segment equal to 1/4 of the height of the head. The last segment will act as the lower boundary of your drawing. Draw horizontal lines through the boundaries of the segments. • From the central vertical line of the figure, measure and draw: - to the left of the line, 3 segments equal to the width of the head; - to the right of the line, 3 segments equal to the width of the head, and one segment equal to 2/3 of the width of the head. • Through the boundaries of the segments, draw vertical lines. The extreme left and right segments will act as the vertical boundaries of your drawing.