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.
• At the top of the sheet, determine the location of the head and draw its approximate size, using an oval.
• Draw a vertical line through the middle of the head. This will be the central vertical line of the drawing.
• From the upper border of the head, moving upward, mark one segment equal to the height of the head. This will be the upper boundary of the figure.
• From the upper border of the head, moving downward, mark 5 segments equal to the height of the head, and one segment equal to 2/3 of the height of the head. Through the boundaries of the segments, draw horizontal lines. The last segment will act as the lower boundary of the future drawing.
• From the central vertical line of the figure, measure and draw:
- to the left of the line, one segment equal to the width of the head, plus one segment equal to 1/3 of the width of the head;
- to the right of the line, one segment equal to the width of the head, plus one segment equal to 1/2 of the width of the head.
• Draw vertical lines through the boundaries of the segments.
The extreme left and right segments are the vertical boundaries of our drawing.