Geometric Design for Beginners

Join Joumana Medlej in learning geometric design. Go from the utter basics of drawing the shapes to complex patterns with this on-going series. It's the drawing series that absolutely anyone can do!

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Geometric Design: The Basics
Geometry may be a bad high school memory for some of us, but it is the key to a very old, fascinating and endlessly creative art form, that requires no other...
Joumana Medlej
28 Nov 2014
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Geometric Design: Working With 4 and 8
In this part of our series on geometric design, you'll learn to construct static and dynamic squares and octagons, our first grid, and tiling patterns based...
Joumana Medlej
29 Dec 2014
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Geometric Design: Working With 6 and 12
This third lesson covers six- and twelve-sided shapes and stars, the construction grids that go with them, and a slew of new basic and intermediate tiling...
Joumana Medlej
9 Feb 2015
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Geometric Design: Working With 5 and 10
In this lesson you will learn how to construct the remaining polygons, with not only five and ten, but also seven, nine and eleven sides, and explore the...
Joumana Medlej
16 Mar 2015
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Geometric Design: Working With Circles
In this lesson that rounds off the basics of geometry, we learn to draw spirals and to fit circles inside other shapes.
Joumana Medlej
19 May 2015
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Geometric Design: Knots and Weaves
In this tutorial you'll learn how to give an interlaced appearance to motifs and patterns created on paper, a method that can also be used to turn separating...
Joumana Medlej
18 Jun 2015
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Geometric Design: Two Variations on an Islamic Tiling Pattern
Today we construct an impressive, classic Islamic pattern with great creative potential, using first a square then a rectangular grid.
Joumana Medlej
13 Jul 2015
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Geometric Design: The North Rose Window in Chartres
This lesson's project gives us an insight into the wonderful Gothic rose windows, where the work starts large and then the scale shifts to ever smaller details.
Joumana Medlej
12 Aug 2015
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Geometric Design: A Celtic Grid
In this tutorial we'll use circles, circles and more circles to create motifs different from anything we've done so far.
Joumana Medlej
14 Sep 2015
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Geometric Design: The Lotfallah Mosque Dome
Learn the harmonic pattern behind one of the most spectacular ceiling designs of the Islamic world, and how to obtain different effects from it.
Joumana Medlej
12 Oct 2015
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Geometric Design: Armenian Knot
We return to interlaced work with this design, but with an extra degree of challenge for a visually smashing result.
Joumana Medlej
25 Nov 2015
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Geometric Design: Create a Pattern from the Cordoba Synagogue
We crank up the complexity level with a stunning historic pattern featuring the numbers 6, 8 and 12.
Joumana Medlej
16 Dec 2015
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Geometric Design: The "Heavenly City" Diagram
In this tutorial we dip our toes into sacred geometry proper, with a construction said to be the plan of the ideal city revealed in the Bible.
Joumana Medlej
21 Jan 2016
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Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern
A lovely and unusual tiling pattern that will test your patience and accuracy and is great fun to colour.
Joumana Medlej
15 Feb 2016
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Geometric Design: Tenfold Star in a Rectangle
We end this series with a pattern both familiar-looking and different: slightly asymmetrical, based on a five-fold division, it can stand alone or be tiled.
Joumana Medlej
7 Mar 2016
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