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.Mark off the width and height of the violin. Draw a guideline for it. Outline two circles for its body. Define with light lines its general proportions.

STEP 1. Draw the waist and fingerboard.

STEP 2. Add more lines to show the shape of the body. Mark the scroll, bridge and fine tuner.

STEP 3. More carefully draw the fingerboard. Draw ribs of the violin.

STEP 4. Outline the tailpiece, bridge and tuning pegs.

STEP 5. Add more parts to the violin.

STEP 6. Contour, paying attention to details.