The grid method is a 500-year-old technique. Durer used it. Vermeer used it. Thousands of working painters use it today. You overlay a grid on a reference photo, draw a matching grid on your canvas, and copy the contents square by square. It keeps your proportions honest at any scale. The problem is the setup. You print the photo, grab a ruler, measure and draw lines by hand. It works, but it's slow, and once you've drawn those lines, you're stuck with them. Want to change the grid density? Start over. Overgrid replaces the ruler. Import any photo, set rows and columns, and the grid appears. Change it whenever you want. Crop to your exact canvas proportions first. The grid reads your image and picks colors that stay visible against any background. We added things painters actually need: value studies that break the image into tonal levels so you can plan light and shadow before committing paint. Temperature overlays that map warm and cool zones. Diagonals for composition analysis. Presets so your favorite setups are one tap away. No account, no cloud, no ads. Your reference photos stay on your device. One-time purchase, not a subscription. The price of a good brush, and you own it. Built with Flutter. Available on iOS, Android, and iPad.

Overgrid - Drawing Grid

Grid any reference photo. Transfer proportions to canvas.

Grid any reference photo. Transfer proportions to canvas.