Pen Art Design Ideas – Hello friends, Adrienne from @studio80design to share all her tips and tricks for drawing mandalas! Even if you’ve never drawn a mandala before, these tips will get you started!
Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning “circle” and is a geometric configuration of symbols. It is a spiritual and ritual symbol believed to represent the universe and the cosmos. Its purpose is to aid in healing and enlighten the ordinary senses.
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With this in mind, I really enjoy drawing and coloring mandalas. Geometric patterns mixed with floral designs are just right for me! Today I’m sharing tips and tricks for drawing mandalas!
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Whether you are new to drawing mandalas, I always recommend doing a pencil sketch FIRST! There are many lines, angles, and patterns in a mandala, so it’s important to plan your mandala before you color it!
My favorite tool for making instructions is the Helix 360 Angle and Circle Maker. Not only can you draw circles of different sizes, but you can also draw angled guidelines to divide the circle into parts. It’s small enough to use in a notebook and you can keep adding rows on the outside if you want to make it bigger!
My third tip is to practice your design beforehand. I like to fill whole pages in my dot grid notebook with patterns and geometric lines to get an idea of what I want to draw in my mandala. Looking at a blank mandala guide can be a little intimidating if you don’t know what to draw first. Once you’ve practiced some patterns beforehand, you’re ready to sketch out those details!
Start with basic forms! You’ve probably seen examples of mandalas before and thought, “How did they draw that?” Drawing detailed and intricate mandalas takes time and practice. Starting with the basic shapes will give you practice time. Try to make the main petals of the mandala the same shape, whether they are flower petals, circle petals or another shape. Keeping it simple will give you practice filling out all those forms!
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Use negative space! Blackout zones will add depth and character to your work! I usually add the darker areas at the very end, keeping in mind where to add the negative space.
Don’t be afraid to use color! Color adds life and character to your mandala. Choose a color scheme or just stick with the rainbow!
The first step is to create your guide! The fastest way to do this is with Helix 360 Degree Angle and Circle Maker! Find the center of the paper and use the MONO Graph mechanical pen to draw different sized circles on the paper. Then use the line tool to draw lines around your circle every 30 degrees!
Use a pencil to mark each layer of the shape around the guide. You can keep all the shapes the same or you can have different shapes! If you like it, use the MONO Drawing Pen 03 to ink your drawings!
Drawing With Ink: Put Down The Pencil And Try The Pen
Use the MONO drawing pen 03 to outline the shapes. These lines can be drawn with just one line or with a double line. Double lines help break up each layer.
Draw the details of each shape using MONO drawing pens 01 and 02. You can get ideas from your pattern sheets here!
Use MONO Drawing Pencil 03 to color in the negative space around the mandala. I also used MONO Drawing Pen 01 to shade all the flowers.
Finally, add all the decorations to your mandala. Now comes the fun part: use the MONO eraser to erase all the pencil guides and marks on your page! It’s so nice to see the page come to life and see it all done!
Mandala Drawing For Beginners
Thanks for visiting today! I hope you found this post on how to draw a mandala useful and give it a try! Be sure to follow @studio80design for inspiration like this! Filed Under: Drawing, How To, Uncategorized – Tagged: drawing, pen and ink, tutorial – Rob Adams at 13:58
I said a while ago. So there it is, my take on pen and ink. The pen was really the first medium I worked with seriously. Oh, there had been pencil scribbles and the crazy colors used by school kids, but that was the first medium I seriously started learning. At first I used Rotring pens. I had them do mechanical drawing for my A level. It felt natural to go ahead and sketch with them. Not much to recommend, they should be straight to the surface, give a consistent line and lock the hat when it falls. However, since I never draw with any other pencil, I thought they were great. I still have the full set in a special box. My next discovery was the pens made by Gillott compared to Rotrings they had a wonderful difference in line thickness and quality. The price was the difficulty of use and the unpleasant habit of getting a big blob of ink on my almost finished masterpiece! Lately, after using filament pens (same problems as Rotring), I’ve decided to use flexible ink pens. They don’t offer as many different lines as fountain pens, but they are much more comfortable to carry and sketch.
When we think of pen and ink, we think of line. If there’s any shade, it’s a watercolor wash or a simple hatch, each within an outline. But pen and ink can be used in pure tones, which open up great possibilities for expression and mood. I’m just considering hatching here. Most people seem to hatch, hatch, and interbreed, and that’s about it. However, there are very different methods of toning areas with a pencil. I’ve provided a few examples below to give you an idea of the variety possible. I leave it up to you how you use the textures to describe the surfaces. I’m just saying that when you draw a tree or a wall, you can’t copy every little shape, you have to find equivalents. Before you begin drawing a distant tree line, do a beam test to see what combination of line weight, density, and variety creates the overall impression. The same with stone or brick walls. If you make every brick or stone, it will look dead and lifeless. In real life we don’t see every brick, the eye just needs some hints and clues to fill in the information for you. Finally, I’ve included some examples from other artists using pencil in a tonal way.
Here we are, I hope this gives you an idea of the possibilities. Experiment to find your own variations. I will cover how to use these textures and how to use white paper and solid blacks in a later section. Now some examples from artists much better than me to show what can be done. Clicking on the images will take you to a high resolution version.
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It’s by Herbert Railton, the master of line skipping! Notice how he’s left the top of the border white and defined just the top edge with a break on the background texture instead of a line. He is also very good at using texture in inventive and versatile ways to add color and interest.
This is Joseph Clement Cole. He often defines with a line, but notice how he breaks his legs here and there in the form of a left hand. He then runs a border line on the cuffs of the same figure, making the cuff white. See how he uses the delicate line of the woman’s dress to contrast with the more powerful lines of the other figures. First look at what he has left behind!
By Walter Jardine, it’s a masterclass in using weight, direction and texture to describe different tones and textures. He uses almost every trick in the book!
Here is Franklin Booth in action. Here he uses a limited repertoire of peeling patterns to achieve a completely tonal effect. Very precise hatching with some elaborate rules. Even the drawn lines can be different because he uses a liner tip. He also uses scraping here and there. A high quality bristol board should be used for this purpose. When the stay-at-home order started in mid-March, I had big plans. Working from home gave me so much time to focus on my art and business. i