Two Easy Ways to Create a Doodle Mandala
an Art Tutorial by Cyra Lewis
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Zendala One
Start with two pieces of paper in different colours.
Cut a circle from one colour,
Fold it in half.
Then into quarters.
And finally fold it into eighths.
Use scissors to cut shapes from the folded sides.
(just like making paper snowflakes with the kids at Christmas)
Carefully unfold your paper Mandala.
Using a soft pencil (3B) draw around the Mandala template onto your other piece of paper.
You can use tiny bits of Blue Tack to hold it in place while you draw around it.
Next you draw over the pencil marks with your Pigma pen (or whatever pen you prefer to use)
I got a nice bold line with my 0.5 Pigma.
Now would be a good time to erase any pencil lines still showing.
Then you can have some fun filling in parts of the Mandala with your favourite Doodles and Tangles.
You can join lines, add more lines and shapes, and tangle whatever bits you like.
Just make sure that you repeat the same action on the mirror image and repeats around the Mandala.
Here is my finished design for this demonstration technique.
Zendala Two
Using the Mandala template that you made in the first technique, use a glue-stick to glue the paper template to another piece of paper of a contrasting colour.
Make sure you get glue-stick on all the edges and points of the cut-outs.
Draw around all the edges with your Pigma pen and then start your doodling on the shapes that appear on the two different coloured parts.
Here is my final Doodling on this technique.
It's a great way to add some colour to your Doodles.
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