Professional Documents
Culture Documents
How To Make Ornate Mandala Art With Radial Symmetry - Autodesk SketchBook
How To Make Ornate Mandala Art With Radial Symmetry - Autodesk SketchBook
alinese illustrator and graphic designer Raka Jana is ack with a follow up to his
popular Ornate Illustrations tutorial. That step--step tutorial focused on using vertical
smmetr to create traditional Indonesian masks, ut there is now an even more powerful
tool in ketchook called Radial mmetr, which we’re covering in this tutorial. This tool is
asolutel perfect for making elaorate mandalas, and the eaut of it is that ou can set the
tool to partition up to sixteen sectors. Just draw one simple design and our work will e
multiplied — perfectl smmetrical down to the pixel. esides saving ou time, it can let ou
get incredil detailed with our mandalas. The end results ma make others sa, “How
could ou have possil done that?” It’s a lot easier than ou might think.
tart with Multiple Rough ketches
When ou’re designing a mandala for a product, such as the t-shirts this mandala will end up
on, eing con dent in our design is ver important. Raka sketches out a numer of test
mandalas using ketchook’s Radial mmetr tool. These ma seem quite detailed for
https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/how-to-easily-draw-elaborate-mandalas/ 1/9
4/9/2019 How to Make Ornate Mandala Art with Radial Symmetry - Autodesk SketchBook
rough sketches, ut in truth the are not that hard to make. When using Radial mmetr,
ou’re onl adding the details once and letting the tool cop it across the mandala. You get a
much more detailed sketch so much quicker, so it pas to make multiple rough drafts and
experiment with drawing and shading some of the details. If ou like to partition our
mandala designs across man diameters, ou can perfect each area with these kinds of
rough sketches efore tackling one ig, all-encompassing mandala.
Crank up the Radial mmetr tool to 16 sectors and work out some of our details efore committing.
Pro Tip: Draw on a Gra ackground
After choosing the est details of our mandala sketches for our nal product and drawing
it out, start a new laer — or multiple laers — for the inking. Raka suggests that ou not
simpl work on a white ackground. Tint our ackground laer gra as he has done in this
design. He’s going to e putting these mandalas on t-shirts, so this design might e printed
on di erent colors of faric. drawing on a gra ackground, ou can get an idea of what
works and doesn’t work so well on white and lack ackgrounds. Of course, ou could also
swap out multiple ackground colors if ou want to see exactl what our design will look
like on a speci c color of ackground, ut gra is proal our est et.
https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/how-to-easily-draw-elaborate-mandalas/ 2/9
4/9/2019 How to Make Ornate Mandala Art with Radial Symmetry - Autodesk SketchBook
Take advantage of all those laers ou have at our disposal.
You can see from Raka’s laer stack that he has changed and edited his original sketch as he
inked the nal image. Raka used a “Tattoo Inker” rush from the default asics rush set
that’s in the latest iO version of ketchook, ut of course ou should customize a rush so
that it works for our stle of drawing. Raka has the Radial mmetr tool set to 16 segments,
which as ou can see mirrors at ever peak of the outer ring of lotus leaves.
Flat Color, hading, and Laer tles
Raka uses two laers for color: a ase laer of at colors and a second laer of shading. He
keeps his inking laer (from the last step) on top of it all. You can shade drawing shadows
or using crosshatching, whichever ou think looks est.
https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/how-to-easily-draw-elaborate-mandalas/ 3/9
4/9/2019 How to Make Ornate Mandala Art with Radial Symmetry - Autodesk SketchBook
Your mandala can e at, ut adding shading will give it a more three-dimensional look — almost like a medallion.
Putting our at ase colors and our shading on separate laers is a great work ow
ecause ou can easil change the opacit, saturation, or values of our shading all at once.
If ou’re someone who likes to use Laer tles in apps like Photoshop (e.g., Multipl,
Overla, Glow, etc.), ou undoutedl alread know how powerful Laer tles can e. All
those Laer tles are in ketchook, and putting shading on a separate laer means ou
can tweak that laer more easil in one fell swoop. Of course, it can also help ou if ou don’t
end up loving all of our color choices. Just create a new laer and tr something new.
https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/how-to-easily-draw-elaborate-mandalas/ 4/9
4/9/2019 How to Make Ornate Mandala Art with Radial Symmetry - Autodesk SketchBook
The Final Illustration: Transparent If You Need It
The nal image is read with the working ackground color removed so it is transparent and
can e easil printed. Mandalas can e hpnotic, and this one is no exception. It’s eautiful.
https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/how-to-easily-draw-elaborate-mandalas/ 5/9
4/9/2019 How to Make Ornate Mandala Art with Radial Symmetry - Autodesk SketchBook
Print it. hip It. njo it.
Raka’s mandala design is read to print on t-shirts. If ou’re planning on printing on paper or
faric or anthing else, e sure to set our canvas or image size in ketchook for large,
high res output. For something elaorate and detailed like this, it’s est to start our image at
300dpi and at least as large as an 11×17 sheet of paper.
https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/how-to-easily-draw-elaborate-mandalas/ 6/9
4/9/2019 How to Make Ornate Mandala Art with Radial Symmetry - Autodesk SketchBook
Tweet hare
GIFT GUID:
CRATIV IDA
KTCHOOK FR FOR FOR ART LOVR
VRYODY! (OR YOURLF)
PRODUCT NW COMMNTARY
https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/how-to-easily-draw-elaborate-mandalas/ 7/9
4/9/2019 How to Make Ornate Mandala Art with Radial Symmetry - Autodesk SketchBook
MUDG
PAINTING:
WHR
PHOTOGRAPHY
MT OIL
PAINTING,
OMWHR
IN INDONIA KTCHOOK FOR ANDROID
COMMNTARY 4.0: A MONTR UPGRAD
VIDO PRODUCT NW
KTCHOOK
FOR WINDOW
10 UPDAT:
10 WAY TO DITORT,
UNUCCFULLY TRANFORM,
MARKT COLOR
YOURLF A AN OPTION, TXT
ARTIT TOOL
COMMNTARY PRODUCT NW
https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/how-to-easily-draw-elaborate-mandalas/ 8/9
4/9/2019 How to Make Ornate Mandala Art with Radial Symmetry - Autodesk SketchBook
TRNT’ TIP: VOLVING A DO TH
FUTUR OF
MOR PAINTRLY TYL ART HAV
ARTIT POTLIGHT VIDO ROOM FOR
HUMAN?
COMMNTARY
MOR POT
https://www.sketchbook.com/blog/how-to-easily-draw-elaborate-mandalas/ 9/9