Reflect this copy over the axis of your angle. Now, select all the parts of your design, and group them together, then make a copy. You should also be able to turn off any other guides too. Now you can turn off or delete your reference image, and I like to change the color to black for visuals… Lime green is pretty annoying to look at after some staring, right? You can definitely go back and forth between the previous and this step until your design is set! I think I went back and forth at least twice to get it to the above state. The guides will naturally cut the shapes at the proper angles for flipping and rotating! Make a copy of the guidelines that you made earlier, and stack them on top of the originals, then use the Shaper Tool (it looks like a circle with a pencil in the front) to “erase” parts of the shapes you made earlier. (If I was working in a raster software like Photoshop, I’d draw/paint in the designs on a new layer, trying to keep inside of the lines I just created, then clean it up with an eraser and skip to the flip and rotate step. (Mine was 30*, in case you were wondering…) Make them obvious in some way, whether that’s thicker, or a different color, or both! Lock the picture in place, and draw in a vertical or horizontal line, and then copy it, and rotate the second line to your angle. Then open up a new document in Adobe Illustrator, and place the image into that document. I did briefly bring it into Adobe Photoshop for editing, mostly just upping the contrast and cropping… Then either take a picture of it from directly above, or scan it in! Next, in pen, draw in a design of your choice! It’s hard for me to visualize what a design is going to look like when extrapolated to a mandala, so I just doodle and hope that it won’t look too weird or wacky. I’ll point out where you could use something like Photoshop to carefully complete the steps.įirst you’re going to want to draw some guides at recognizable angles, or at least angles you can remember, so bring out the protractor! Similar softwares are CorelDraw and Inkscape, the latter of which is free! I haven’t used it before, but its an option.
I’ll be using Adobe Illustrator primarily, which is a vector based software that allows for layers. That’s more of a finesse and fuss problem, which I haven’t mastered yet. I do want to note, though, that this isn’t a great process for digitizing a fully drawn mandala, like the one I showed you last week. Today I’m going to show you how I make mandalas from sketch to finished digital product.
Welcome back for what has become week 3 of my mandala tour!
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