From the course: Learning Illustrator Draw
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Using grids
- Grids are a very useful way of dividing up your work area and also of using things to align and draw to. You can add two different kinds of grid in Illustrator Draw and you find them at gear icon, at the top right of the screen. First of all you'll see they're the third item down, and the word Add and if you tap that, You'll get to choose between perspective and graph, well I'm going to choose graph just for now. And we go into this dedicated space to set up our grid. Now, you can see at the top of the screen, it's easy to switch between the two. Let's do this one first, so the easiest way for us to change the grid size is to drop two fingers down on the glass and spread outwards to change that size. Once you get it near enough to what you want, then you can come down to the bottom of the screen and you can tune that just a little bit there by tapping on the plus or minus icon as desired. What I really need for this superhero illustration I'm starting or superheroine illustration…
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