Mandala flower design. Surface pattern design.

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Nowadays, mandalas are trending. You can see them everywhere, at colouring books, fashion clothes, tattoos, prints…Therefore, I felt like drawing my first mandala, as surpringly I had never done it before. Although I think some of my flowers looked like them, and when I was a child I drawed shapes very similar to Mandalas!

According to Wikipedia definition, Mandala, (The Sanskrit term mandala roughly translates to "magic circle" or "sacred circle")is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism, representing the Universe. The basic form of most mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point.

In common use, mandala has become a generic term for any diagram, chart or geometric pattern often like a circle that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically; a microcosm of the universe.

You can see lots of inspiring Mandalas pictures here, http://goo.gl/n0Cn45.

It is said that drawing or colouring mandalas it is therapeutic and, that you will experiment many psychological benefits of it.

            

Designs as ipod and iphone cases.http://www.casetify.com/product/mandala-white-flower/iphone5/61


Yesterday I wanted to try, drawing a center, in this case a little heart and to draw elements around it. 

I didn´t know what I was going to draw. I took my black marked and started to draw shapes, but I was not slow trying to do it with accuracy, only went with it while I was hearing Caetano Veloso songs. 

I had a great fun making and seeing it how it was growing…

My first idea was to draw a mandala full of bold colours, but at the the result was not so childish as I expected, as it looked like a lace flower. 

So, I decided to paint it in a solid colour, just black or white.I think I thought about the henna mandalas designs which I love to.

Therefore, I scanned it and clean it at photoshop. I realised when I zoomed it I had not been careful drawing in ink, as there were not precise lines. 

   I have the craze of drawing my ink sketchings always on tracing papers. 

Anyway I liked that loose hand look, and I decided to continue to see where I was led to.

I decided as I usually work with vectors, traced it automatically at illustrator, although I must say I had to eliminate and improve some of the resulting jagged edges shapes.

As glitter or brightness colours are trendy too, I tried to filled it with a golden paper I had scanned, and I also make some gradient colours to fill it to see the effect.

But I was not fond of it. Perhaps I will more make more Mandala motivesm changes and colorways in order to create a print with repeat.

Do you fancy drawing mandalas this week? I hope if you have not tried yet,  give it a go!It is relaxing and funny!