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Creating a mandala ornament design

Creating a mandala ornament design - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a mandala ornament design

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(gears turning) - [Voiceover] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie I'm going to go over creating a Mandala ornament. Now this is a mathematical based, geometric centric design, or based off of geometry that is. And math can be intimidating but it can lead to really cool artwork if you understand some basics. So I'm going to go over how I create ornaments like this and I'm going to show you an example of a simplified one first. And that is based off of what I call a 1/8 drawing grid. All this is, is four simple squares stacked upon one another with an X drawn through. And it's this simple grid that I use to draw out over 700 ornaments for a book on ornaments that I did several years back. This shows the base refined drawing based off of this 1/8 drawing grid and you can see I've drawn out 1/8 of it here and it's on that principle that I've used to build just 1/8 of the design. Once I have my design built, and this is just simply done with the anchor point tool…

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