{"id":2467554,"date":"2026-06-19T20:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2467554"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:34:41","slug":"unpopular-opinion-as-an-artist-tracing-and-using-a-grid-in-art-isnt-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/unpopular-opinion-as-an-artist-tracing-and-using-a-grid-in-art-isnt-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpopular opinion as an artist : tracing and using a grid in art isn\u2019t cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/USDBwShkh3s?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Unpopular opinion as an artist : tracing and using a grid in art isn\u2019t cheating. They are tools, just like brushes, pencils, rulers, or color references. A grid can help with proportions, and tracing can be a useful learning tool when used correctly. What matters most is understanding shapes, values, color, composition, and continuing to develop your own artistic skills. What do you think? Is using a grid or tracing cheating, or just another tool artists can use? #artstudio #artist #arttips #acrylicpainting #painting<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=USDBwShkh3s\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unpopular opinion as an artist : tracing and using a grid in art isn\u2019t cheating. They are tools, just like brushes, pencils, rulers, or color references. A grid can help with proportions, and tracing can be a useful learning tool when used correctly. What matters most is understanding shapes, values, color, composition, and continuing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2467555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781901278_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467556,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467554\/revisions\/2467556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}