So now let's take a deeper look at grids and what it can do for our illustrations. So here we have a new file we have an empty canvas. And for us to access the grids, I have to click on Tools, click drawing guide, and then select Edit drawing guide. procreate offers us four modes of drawing guides. And we're going to look at the mall starting with the first one, the 2d grid. The 2d grid, as the name says offers you square grid, which you can change the color of the grid lines here at the very top and that is very helpful depending on what colors you're using on your illustration.

Then you have the thickness of the lines that can be less or more apparent, or pen city. You have the option of having the first layer as soon as we hit Done Later is going to be in the system layer, meaning that you will already be working under the influence of these lines. And finally, the undercity grid size, you can go with a very small grid or more spaced out grid. I personally like to go with somewhere around 194 an image that's about 2000 pixels, kind of gives me the right amount of cells it within the grid. I'm going to hit done, go back into my layers. And because I've been working with this a few times, I think that the drawing assist option didn't really turned on on the layer that I want.

But if that happens, and if you don't see the grids actually snapping to the lines or your stroke snapping to the lines, make sure to select the layer and make sure that this option is turned on drawing assist it See assisted right here at the bottom of the layer. Now we know that this layer is under the influence of the grid. So now, just drawing with a very hot, bright green here, you can see that the lines, the strokes that I'm creating are really following the lines on the grid. I can also go back here to tools, turn off drawing guides, and if I keep making lines, it is still obeying the grid. And that is because clicking here on the layer the leader still says assisted. Now let's go back into drawing guide and edit drawing guide.

And there's one more option on the 2d grid that I need to show you. Basically, there's there's two busiest controls here, and those are for you to move your grid. You can also click On the green one, and that is the rotation of your grid. So it starts to act out like a ruler, and you can reposition your grid done. no going back here into the layer making sure it says assisted, your new lines or strokes are going to actually follow this new configuration. So it really works to the ruler.

And this is definitely great if you need to be making drawings that are based with a lot of straight lines, and you don't want to be making quick shape within your strokes every single time. If you have something that really has a lot of these straight lines might be easier to actually work with a grid. Now let's make another layer here and check the next option for drawing guides. We're gonna go back into edit drawing guide. And if you ever need to reset your 2d grid if you've been rotating quite a bit, you can just click on the Bezier and he has a little reset that once you click resets your grid, the next option is an isometric grid. I'm going to hit assisted drawing and see if that actually affects my layer.

And our layer is assisted right from the get go. I'm going to leave that at the bottom for now. And this is also another really, really useful grid. If you do need to make anything that is as a metric, such as a 3d cube, with no perspective, it's going to turn off as a drawing, just so you can see the results. So this one is pretty self explanatory, but let's take a look at the next one. So I'm going to delete, make another layer.

Go back into drawing guide, edit drawing guide. And the next one is the Perspective Grid. I'm just going to recreate vanishing points. So you see really how it works. So here in the Perspective Grid, I can choose my vanishing points. And he can be from one vanishing point, up to three vanishing points.

So these are my side vanishing points, my horizon line is depicted here in the middle, and I got my third one, which is I'm just going to set it more or less over here. We're going to hit assisted drawing done, went back into my layers. I always make sure that that assisted drawing is written here on my layer and zoom out. And this option here is really, really good for any kind of architectural drawings that you may need to to make As you can see, this is a really, really powerful tool that you can use to make your drawings. Lastly, we're going to take a look at the also very powerful symmetry tool. So going back into drawing guide and edit drawing guide, we're going to go into symmetry.

And once again, on symmetry procreate gives us four modes of symmetry. Firstly, One is a vertical symmetry line. As you can see here, you can reposition anywhere you want on your canvas. I'm just going to reset so it's in the middle, I'm going to make sure that that assisted drawing is on, and we're going to hit I'm going to hit done. Now, I make sure that my layers assisted. And I'm just gonna turn on these layers here my text layers, which are going to help me be able to show you what this does.

So once I draw on top of this text layer, as you can see, the mirror effect is working in a vertical way, and it's completely mirroring whatever I'm drawing onto that layer and just going to hide my text layer. As can see this happens. However, another thing I want to show, I'm going to create a new layer set at the bottom. And going back to tools and edit drawing guide. On symmetry tool, there's an option here called rotational symmetry. And what that does is that for each symmetry section, it rotates 90 degrees.

So how does that work back in our vertical symmetry. So once I draw, again the same word vertical, you see that now, not only is been mirrored horizontally, it's also being mirrored vertically. Next up, we're just going to go into the horizontal line. And let's leave rotational symmetry on so I can really show that fact. We're going to make another layer set at the bottom turn on horizontal, click on our layer, make sure it says drawing assist, unless just write this word. And as you can see, turning off the type not only it's mirror Like the reflection in the water, but it's also mirroring horizontally as well, because we have rotational symmetry also selected.

Let's make another one. Let's turn on quadrant and go here into our edit drawing guide and select quadrant with rotational symmetry. So now, if I draw this word, you really see what's starting to happen here. It's gonna hide our text layer. And now not only is mirroring the image on each quadrant, but it's also rotating 90 degrees. So what that does and the powerful tool that starts to happen with symmetry, I'm going to select drawing assistant.

I'm just going to bring it down on brush here. All of a sudden, you can make these really, really cool mentalis are like drawings and it starts to look really, really interesting. And the combinations are like endless. So I'm going to create another layer and going to edit drawing guide and go into radio with rotational symmetry on. So now, it really makes interesting interesting flower arrangements, as you can see right here. And the options are actually quite amazing.

You can make new layers, make sure a drawing assist is turned on. And you can continue making your arrangements with different colors, different stroke widths and make something that looks really really complex. And it will take you a lot of time to create these whether you're making them in folders, shop or Illustrator. So that pretty much covers grids, and the powerful tools that exist within grids such as the symmetry tool. Next up, let's take a look of layers and all the options that we can find within that section.