Mandala Tutorial

Simple Tools

Sketchbook or Paper

Dollar Store Drafting Tools

(although I am shopping for some better ones)

Pencil

Sharpie Pen

(or your favorite, that just happens to be mine)

Draw concentric circles

and divide them up.   

This one is at 30% increments

but you can choose, 

just so it is even. 

You will do this lightly with a pencil so that 

it can be erased later. 

Then you just start creating 

Don't worry about a ruler.

In the end the lines will look fine. 

This one is mostly simple straight lines. 

I never have an idea in mind, 

I just wait and see what happens. 

You will make a line and repeat the 

same line the whole way around. 

And remember, it is only paper.

Big rule of thumb with a sketchbook, 

never rip out a page, 

your mistakes could become 

masterpieces! 

I repeated that same idea in one of the bigger circles. 

Sometimes, I place dots where I want the next lines to go to.

Sometimes I just trace the circle lines. 

This one is one I really didn't like a few weeks ago.

Now I am tweaking it and starting to like it. 

And you can always color them! 

Try it! 

They are fun!