Islamic Geometric Design Lessons - Part 1

1. Skillshare how to draw a square: drawing the square with just a compass and a ruler and a pencil. So take a piece of paper. Make sure you have something underneath so that your compass will hold. Probably Andi droll a more or less horizontal line to begin with and through a circle off any radius, just not too small or too large for your piece of paper. So drawn your circle. Now you need to draw a vertical line, and to do that we're going to draw a little bits of bark at the top and at the bottom. So you have two more or less of guess how far your ark needs to stretch, so that gives us intersections. Andi, we connect these intersections with a vertical line. Now we could accomplish point back in the middle, and we have to re find the radius off first circle that we drew. Once we have that, we have to do a little bits of arch on the four corners, more or less where we expect our square to go. So you have to guess, how long do I need to be so that they can cross like I'm doing now? They're so there's four intersections that have created. And now our connect the intersections and end up with a square. And for good measure, I'll throw two diagonal lines on. Then you end up with one of the templates that we use in our workshop. We're close to go some step by step instructions in illustrations. Let's show you the same thing. For more online resources, check out my School of Islamic Geometric Design website. 2. Skillshare Draw a Hexagon: drawing accident with just a compass and a ruler and a pencil. You begin with a piece of paper on top of another piece of paper so that your compass holds properly and we draw a or is on the line. Then we draw a circle. We can choose the size, but not too big, because we need to draw lots of circles around it and you'll see in a moment. So now we keep the radius the same, and we drove this circle six more times, using intersections that we create with the preview circle. As you can see helpfully on, The amazing thing about this is that it's only with hexagons and with six fold geometry that you can draw six identical circles all the way around and you end up where you started . So one central circle and then six circles that sit around it on that gives Rosell the intersections that we need. For now, we draw these long lines ums. They will enable us to draw a hexagon inside the first circle that we grew but some step by step instructions as well to show you how to do all this. For more online resources, check out my School of Islamic Geometric Design website 3. How to Draw a Fourfold Pattern 1: this waffle pattern that we're going to draw in this lesson is one that I always start with in all my workshops. It's a four full pattern, which means that it starts as a circle that divided into four or eight equal sections. So you can see I'm not starting with a white piece of paper. But I'm starting with the template. You can download this template for free for a much school of Islamic geometric design website, and the link is also in the introduction to this course. The first step is to rule with pencil four lines like to V shapes pointing in opposite directions, one pointing up on one, pointing down. So have a look where the V starts and through which intersections that go so these lines don't go to the corner of the square, but they go through the intersections indicated with red. Can you see that? So pay attention that these lines don't go to the corners off the squares. Then the next step again. With pencil, you draw tomb or V shapes, but this time the gun from left to right instead of from top to bottom, and they go through the same intersections that you've used before the same intersections on the circle that are indicated with little red circles. Now, if you've done it properly, you end up with a nice octagon right in the middle. As you can see there, this little shapes on the corner should have a job to do when the pattern is finished, as will become clear later. So now we've done all the pencil lines, so you need a different color, preferably a marker or a colored pencil. And now you trace parts of your pencil lines and you ignore other parts. That's the trick, you know, drawing new lines, it just figuring out what to wear. Trace, What do I ignore? So the first step yesterday, all this four pointed star that you can see in red in the picture in the top. Right? So the trick is to be accurate, to trace carefully to figure out where this is lying. Stop. Where does it start? Where this a change direction. There we go. The whore pointed star. Now this start patting. We could stop here and we could test related. As you can see, we could repeat it and this would already make a legitimate pattern, something nitty could see, for example, in the madrasa in America. But we're not finished yet. So the last step is to draw a four pointed star, as you can see in bold red in the picture Top right, a four pointed star that sits on top of the lines that you've already drawn and just use the same color that's usually best and again you're figuring out where those my line start , Where does it stop? Where does it change direction? Never go and there's your pattern so you can color it. You could make it look nice if you're doing this pattern in the group, all these patterns will fit nicely next to each other. That's why I use the template as well, because everybody has a square that's exactly the same size. And when you put them together, hey, presto, you get a bigger version. So it's a nice thing to do with a group of people here. You can see an example of a workshop I did at a school in the UK with lots of kids. Everybody do exactly the same, but everybody colored it in in a different way. But it still joins up, and it still looks really good. There's also a template available, which is not just one square divided into eight equal sections, but it's a great off two by two squares with Syracuse divided into eight equal sections so that you can do like a mini composition where you do four of the stars instead of just one . And that's a very nice exercise as well. Once you've mastered how to do this, then do four and see how you can see much more off the pattern, much more than you would be able to see if you were just looking at one pattern like we've done now for more online resources, check out my School of Islamic Geometric Design website. 4. How to draw a Sixfold pattern 1: this sixfold puffin is usually the 1st 6 full person that I do in a workshop, because you can find it in many examples. In Islamic architecture, it's doable. It's not too difficult, and the result looks really good and sophisticated when you test elated. So this is a see full pattern that we make inside a hexagon, and I'll show you the step by step instructions on how to do it. So as usual, we start with a template in this case of circle, divided into 12 equal sections on the first step that we do is that we draw a hexagon that fits inside the circle. This is also the hexagon that we will end up cutting out when we're finished. This is also the hexagon that will be test elated, his 1st 1 that we draw. So then the next step, I used to draw another hexagon that also fits inside the circle and that sits on top off the first hexagon that we drew. Now we draw to equal actual triangles that's fit inside. The first text in that we drew so you can see this little red circles that I refused. It's worth drawing those yourself. It just makes it easier to see where your lines have to go. It makes it more straightforward, so if you've done it correctly, you end up with my Mexican in the middle. So next we draw two more equal actual triangles. Except these have a little bit of extra line that extends when they gets to the corner of the triangle, and why we need to do it like that will become clear later on. So these are all the pencil lines done, Andi. Now comes the fun parts, where you get to trace the bits of line that you need to make the pattern. So usually colored pencil or a marker. You start tracing the bits of line that you need and ignoring the bits of line the window need so you can see the image here of the first step there were trying to make. So you can see, as I'm growing that I'm extending these lines a little bit like we do in pencil. So we end up with these little bits on the corners. These little bits from the corners have a job to do when the pattern is desolated. When you put them all together these little bits on the corners, a little extension that I'm growing now turn into little triangles that connect the whole pattern to make everything join up. So even though they're small, they're not unimportant. Andi In the family geometric design, everything has a role to play, even the smallest pieces. So then the last step is to draw a six pointed star that consists of one continuous line, if you will, that sits on top of the one that we've just drawn. So essentially you're drawing to six pointed stars, a sit on top of each other. But one of those six pointed stars that will extended bits at the corners. And then this last six point to start that we're drawing now does not have that. It's a really good pattern to do because it looks really great on its own. But if you do in the group, then you conduct a more laughs and put them all together, and you get a really big composition that looks like something that you could see anywhere in the history of Islamic architecture that we happened through a pointed star in a hexagon . On these are the bits that need to remain. So when you cut it out, cut it out from such a way that you keep those shapes. As you can see here, that's where it sometimes goes wrong. People grabbed the scissors and the sub cutting, and then they cut off the wrong. It's in the end of cutting off those things. We have to make sure that doesn't happen. So then, when you desolated, you end up with this. For more online resources, check out my School of Islamic Geometric Design website.