Create

Make use of Drawing Guides to help you build the structure of your artwork. Activate a guide, choose the functions you need, and tweak how it looks.

Activate Drawing Guide

Add a visual guide to your canvas to help you build realistic environments and objects.

Enter a canvas, then expand your tools at the top with the ellipsis. Tap Actions (wrench icon) → Canvas and toggle on 'Drawing Guide'. Your Drawing Guide is now activated, and will be a 2D Grid by default, or whatever you last activated on that canvas.

Select a Drawing Guide

Choose from a variety of Drawing Guides to suit every purpose.

Tap Edit Drawing Guide just beneath this, to select and modify the drawing guide you'd like to use for the canvas:

By default, the Edit Drawing Guides interface will show you a contracted view that allows you more space to customize your current guide.

Swipe upwards from this to access the expanded Drawing Guides interface.

In here, you will find four types of drawing guide. Each guide is designed to assist your work in different ways. They’re explored in the Handbook pages that follow.

1. 2D Grid - a square grid for building flat shapes

1. Isometric - a triangular grid (120º) for building 3D shapes without foreshortening. Isometric is ideal for technical illustrations

1. Perspective - a star-shaped guide used for building 3D shapes with vanishing points. This gives one-point, two-point, or three-point perspective. Perspective is ideal for cityscapes, backgrounds for comics, etc.

1. Symmetry - a guide designed to work with Drawing Assist to mirror your strokes. These work horizontally, vertically, across a quadrant, or radially. Symmetry is ideal for creating reflected shapes, tiled designs, and kaleidoscopic patterns

Edit Drawing Guide Basics

Tap across these options to change to the different Drawing Guides.

Set the color of your guide lines.

Set the opacity of your grid lines.

Set the thickness of your grid lines.

Set the size of your 2D or Isometric grid. Move the slider, or tap the numerical readout to enter an exact grid size.

Set the unit type you want your grid measurements to be.

Set the unit type you want your grid measurements to be.

Return to the canvas view and cancel any changes you have made in this instance of 'Edit Drawing Guides'

Tap this tick to confirm the changes you've made in this instance of editing your Drawing Guides. This will apply the changes and return you to the canvas.