DraftGrid is a lightweight web tool for generating clean, printable drawing guides for designers, artists, and product thinkers.
It helps you create structured 2D and 3D sketch layouts instantly, ready to export as high-quality A4 PDFs.
👉 https://gamingradar.github.io/draftgrid
While taking a concept art course, I noticed how much time was spent manually creating layout guides.
DraftGrid solves that by letting you generate:
- Structured grids
- 3D sketch guides
- Professional design sheets
...in seconds.
- Adjustable grid (2–12 boxes)
- Aspect ratios (1:1, 2:3, 3:4, custom)
- Margins & spacing control
- Portrait / Landscape A4
- Basic shapes (cube, cuboid, cylinder, etc.)
- Isometric / perspective layouts
- Depth & angle control
- Ideal for product sketching
- Title, version, author
- Date & page numbering
- Multi-page export
- Optional logo support
- Stroke color & weight
- Dotted / solid guides
- Layout presets
- Light / dark UI
- High-resolution PDF (print-ready)
- Clean, centered layouts
DraftGrid is free to use.
If it helps your workflow, you can:
- Keep the watermark or QR code on exported sheets
- Mention DraftGrid when sharing your work
- Use #DraftGrid
This helps others discover the tool.
- Concept art practice
- Product design ideation
- Perspective studies
- Classroom templates
- Team-standard sketch sheets
This project uses privacy-friendly analytics via Cloudflare to understand usage and improve the tool.
No personal data is collected.
Suggestions, ideas, and improvements are welcome.
You can:
- Open an issue
- Submit a pull request
- Share feedback via email
Feel free to reach out on Devashish Tambade with feedback, ideas, or if you build something using DraftGrid.
This project is licensed under the AGPL v3 License.