Looking for a free grid drawing tool for your art?
Use this free grid tool to easily add a grid overlay to your reference photos, a classic technique for improving drawing and painting accuracy. Simply upload your image, customize the grid line thickness and color, and download your gridded photo instantly—no software required.
Grid Controls
Grid Settings
Image Effects
Your Gridded Image
Upload an image to begin.
Features of our grid drawing tool:
Designed for artists and students, our reference photo grid maker helps you master proportions and composition. It’s the perfect online grid drawing tool for transferring your images to canvas or paper.
The Perfect Reference Photo Grid
Our grid drawing tool will always attemt to give you a perfect grid. If that is mathematically impossible, it will automatically crop your reference image.
Highly Adjustable
Would you like to change the color of your grid lines? Want the grid lines thicker? Thinner? Do you want bigger grid squares? Well, you can do that.
Study the Values
Simply check the box for “Black & White Mode” to transform your color images into basic tonal values. Helpful for seeing highlights, midtones and shadows.
Draggable Grid
If your grid can not cover your image perfectly, the grid lines become draggable so that you can make sure the most important parts of your reference photo are covered.
Instant Downloads
Once your grid is rendered, simply click on the “Download Image with Grid” button to receive a digital copy of your gridded photo reference.
Your Privacy is a Priority
Our free grid tool is client-side, working directly in your browser. You images are never saved to our servers.