  Strictly-convex straight-line drawings of $3$-connected planar graphs in
small area form a classical research topic in Graph Drawing. Currently, the
best-known area bound for such drawings is $O(n^2) \times O(n^2)$, as shown by
B\'{a}r\'{a}ny and Rote by means of a sophisticated technique based on
perturbing (non-strictly) convex drawings. Unfortunately, the hidden constants
in such area bound are in the $10^4$ order.
  We present a new and easy-to-implement technique that yields strictly-convex
straight-line planar drawings of $3$-connected planar graphs on an integer grid
of size $2(n-1) \times (5n^3-4n^2)$.
