My proportions always look wrong
You sketch carefully, but the eyes are misaligned, the perspective is skewed, and no matter how hard you try, the result never matches the reference.
Stop Drawing What You Think You See
Stop struggling with proportions! Instantly turn any reference photo into a perfectly scaled tile grid, apply artistic filters, and learn to sketch with total confidence.
Free to download · iOS & iPadOS · No account required
Photo by Connor Wilkins on Unsplash
Sound Familiar?
Drawing Should Be Joyful — Not a Math Problem
Blank page anxiety is real
Staring at a complex reference photo and a blank canvas at the same time is overwhelming. You don't know where to start, so you don't start at all.
Manual grids are tedious
Rulers, calculators, pencil lines, erasers. Setting up a physical grid takes 20 minutes and still comes out uneven. There has to be a better way.
Your Art Studio Companion
Everything You Need to Draw with Confidence
Tilewise digitizes the centuries-old grid method — and adds the analytical tools that art school never taught you.
Perfect Grid Math
Any photo, any aspect ratio. Tilewise calculates mathematically flawless square tiles instantly — no ruler, no calculator, no math.
Tile-by-Tile Focus
Double-tap any tile to zoom it full-screen. Block out the rest and focus on drawing just one manageable shape at a time.
Analytical Filters
Grayscale strips distracting colour. Find Contours isolates edges. Posterize simplifies shading into clean blocks. Train your eye to see instead of guess.
Subdivision Edge Ticks
Subtle marks divide each tile's walls into halves and quarters, showing you precisely where lines enter and exit — for accuracy down to the millimetre.
Cognitive Bias Mirror
Flip your reference horizontally. Your brain stops seeing "an eye" and starts seeing raw curves and shapes — the trick professional artists have used for centuries.
Print-Ready Export
Generate high-resolution PDFs and SVGs with a calibrated grayscale value strip and angle alignment fan. Print your grid template and draw at real scale.
Available on iPhone and iPad
The Process
Start Drawing in Three Steps
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Drop Your Photo
Import any reference image from your camera roll. Tilewise reads the aspect ratio and instantly locks in perfect square boundaries.
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Customize Your Focus
Adjust grid columns, toggle alphanumeric labels, set line opacity. Double-tap any tile to zoom in and eliminate distractions. Apply a filter to see shapes, not colour.
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Draw with Confidence
Replicate the image tile by tile onto your canvas. Or export a print-ready PDF template and sketch at real scale on paper.
Your Future Self
Imagine Looking at Your Finished Drawing and Thinking, "Wow — I Actually Drew That."
The Beginner
- My proportions are finally right
- I finished my first realistic portrait
- I'm not afraid of the blank page anymore
- I understand how to see like an artist
The Improver
- I paint at real scale from printed templates
- I use filters to study value and shading
- My sketchbook shows clear progress over time
- I share my work and people are genuinely impressed
Every Day Without the Right Tool Is Another Day of Frustration
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Expensive sketchbooks filled with skewed, out-of-proportion sketches you're ashamed to show.
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Hours lost to ruler-and-calculator grid setups that still come out uneven.
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Convincing yourself you "just can't draw" — and abandoning a hobby that could bring you real joy.
It doesn't have to be this way.
See how Tilewise changes that →Ready to Draw Like You Never Thought You Could?
Join beginner artists who have stopped fighting proportions and started finishing drawings they're proud of.
Free download · Works on iPhone and iPad · iOS 16+
Tilewise is built by an indie developer who loves both art and software. If it helps you finish a drawing you're proud of, a review on the App Store means the world.
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