In this video I'm going to show you how to make your own mandala design
and your own mandala dotted design which was one of the trends on my RedBubble video earlier.
We're going to do this in Affinity Designer. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video my name is Juna with Detour Shirts the channel all
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don't forget to hit that subscribe button. So in this video i'm so excited to show you how
to make your own mandala design and i'm going to do it in affinity designer so if you don't have
affinity designer you may want to pick it up just for this tutorial because you can make so many
mandala designs with this it will probably pay for itself you're going to be amazed how easy this is
i'm going to teach you about symbols which i haven't showed before and once you learn this
trick about symbols your mind will be changed for affinity designer forever this this is incredible
you don't want to miss this you're going to want to stay to the end because i'm going to
show you how to do a traditional mandala design as well as a mandala dotted design which was one
of the trends in my redbubble video right here so stay tuned for that as well as another edition of
trend credits so this is a cool video you don't want to miss it let's get started alright so
here we are in affinity designer we're going to do some fun stuff today so first we're going to
do the star tool and that's normally under your triangle tool so let me go back to triangle here
and then click on the triangle tool and then scroll down to star tool and then you're going
to want to hold down shift while you drag so i'm holding down shift and then i'm dragging like this
and just want to make it inside there as big as you can to fit the space i have my artboard at
5400 pixels by 5400 pixels that's about the size of a merch by amazon t-shirt so that's
why i did it that size you can make whatever size you want uh here we go the next thing you
want to do is to change these points we don't want five points you can do anywhere between 12 and 36
i'm going to pick 24 and you're going to see it can work with any size but here's 24
and this is basically going to be our guides so make sure that you have this turned on to about
0.4.3 is fine make sure this fill is a color and the stroke is a color so stroke swatches
you can pick black or whatever it is you want to pick and then once you're on that star make sure
the radius you can see it's 38 we're gonna take that all the way down to zero basically just using
this as a guide so you can see here because i have the stroke uh and color on here you can still see
it i think the fill yeah you're going to need the stroke on not just the fill so let's turn that
stroke on so basically we're just going to use this as a guide the next thing we're going to do
is make a rectangle so i'm going to zoom in just a little bit we're going to put the rectangle
at the top here and i'm going to drag it here's the rectangle tool right on the above the circle
tool right it's called rectangle tool and you're going to make your rectangle about this
size right here and one thing you may want to do you don't have to do this but this helps so that
you can see what i'm doing is i'm going to make it a gradient so i'm going to go from here to here
and it doesn't matter what gradient it is this is just for visual so this can be
any gradient the next thing we want to do is we're going to start making this a symbol so click here
if you don't have symbols here in your palette you can go to view studio and then
click symbols right here symbols so symbols is what's going to make this possible so
if you haven't used symbols before don't worry we're going to use symbols today and you're going
to see the power of symbols this is incredible thing that affinity designer does this can be
used for patterns as well i mean this is going to be a pattern but you can use it for other patterns
as well so symbol you can see here this is a symbol i'm going to create a symbol you can see
now this one this gradient one is a symbol now that we have that symbol we're going to hit
option and drag like this and then we're going to flip it and then make sure that
they're butt up against each other you might want to have this turned on this
enable snapping that's just going to help you snap to the different points so turn that on and
i have both of them here you can see one right next to the other they're mirrored right
they're mirroring each other and that's going to help a lot when we're doing our mandala design
because we want it mirrored against this line so everything we draw is going to be mirrored against
this line right here so that's why we have this guide so we're going to select both of them here
and we're going to group them so that's command g and after we group them we're going to copy
this and rotate it around what we what we just did of the guide so we're going to have to make
go back out a little bit we're going to move that center point you see that center point right here
it looks like this if you don't have it turned on you can enable transform origin turn it on and
off right there that's what that's for and then we're going to take that hold shift and drag it
all the way to the center and it should lock because we have snapping enabled it shouldn't
lock right there but if you want to make sure we can zoom in here and you can see oh it's not
there it is you see those lines that means that it's locked right there so that's going
to be the center that we're going to rotate this on okay so we're going to rotate this
on center so that it goes all around you'll see what i mean so the next thing you want to do
now that you have this group selected is hit command j okay you may not see anything but if
you go to the layers you can see that there's two now two groups and we're gonna rotate it so
right here you'll see this turns into look at my arrow at the top here it's turning into a move to
like two arrows kind of going doing like this right a curved arrow so wait till you see that
and hold shift and drag it to the right and you can see it's going to snap to that line right
and now that you got one of them and you did the command j you can hit command j again
and it's going to do it again and again and again so keep hitting command j
until you get around to the top here and there's all of your things so it may not look like
anything right now but this is the base of what you need to create your mandala design
the next few steps are gonna blow your mind so you're gonna have to scroll down i'm going to
take my face off of this just for a little bit so this is just so you can see right here
i'm going to open up the bottom group so you can see that's the original group right here open it
up and this symbol right here you're going to want to open that up and click on that rectangle in the
symbol so this is the original rectangle right now okay so now that you have that click on the pencil
tool right here and you're going to want to make sure that the pencil tool has a width so let's try
six point right here so i made it to six point i'm gonna bring back my face so now that you have the
pencil tool selected here we're just gonna draw inside of this so we're drawing inside this symbol
so that's that's what's happening so what's going to happen right here is we're creating the symbol
and remember all of these are the same symbols so what symbols do is if you make one it's going to
copy what you did on one symbol on all the other symbols because these are all symbols they're
going to copy what you draw here and you'll see what happens so remember this is a mirror image
and then these two are copied so they're going to be the same so here's what we're going to do
pencil tool and then just start drawing i'm gonna start drawing from the bottom here
and look what happens you can just i'm just moving my mouse in and out and doing this kind of
thing so look at that is this crazy or what this is how easy it is to draw a mandala design
i'm just going to go up like this and if there's a space you want to come down just do that
come back up and around whatever you want to do and you can do this over and over again
and that's it and then you may not want these things so you're going to turn those off so
i'm going to go back here i'm going to move my face again so you can see what i'm doing
on my layers palette so the original star that we made as a guide turn that off and the
original rectangle that we made turn that off and what you're left with is this beautiful mandala
design right so you can continue to add more and more things here just click on the pencil again
and then maybe you want us fill in this space here just go like that fill it in maybe this there's a
space right here you want to fill in fine just go like that you know uh do you want to add more up
here sure do like that how about a circle up here well just draw it look at that it's so crazy so
you can have endless amounts of mandala designs here each one will be different and you can just
play around with it so that is how easy it is once you get everything set up that's how easy it is
to make your own mandala design and look how cool that is you'll have an original design every time
because all you're doing is moving things around so have fun with this this is a really cool
idea that you can do and make lots of this would be great for pop sockets on merch by
amazon this would be great for stickers on redbubble also make a cool design
for t-shirts and if you make enough of them you can make patterns and put them inside of
animals and shapes and things like that so really cool right so i promised you to do another one but
with circles so this is the original mandala design the trend was mandala dotted design so
let me show you what i'm going to do with that so i made another artboard here
we did we don't have to go through the whole thing but you can see it's set up again with the star
lines the guides here as well as the symbols so this is a different symbol i'm gonna instead of
drawing with the pencil tool i'm gonna use circles instead okay so let's see how that works so i made
sure to pick that symbol again so this remember this symbol is rotated so i'm gonna do the circle
and i'm gonna do the circle right here you can see those are circles i'm gonna zoom in so you
can see i don't need this stroke here and what i'm going to do is i'm just going to move the circle
i'm going to move it until they are on each other and then i'm going to make it bigger
i can hold down shift and make it a little bigger and then kind of drag it in so that it doesn't
repeat so you can do the same thing i'm going to hold down option well let's change this color
so it's not a gradient color i'm just going to make it a solid color so you can see that
so i'm going to hold down option and i'm going to bring it here right and then i can make bigger
ones and smaller ones if i want to make a bigger one i can do it here again and then hold down
option make it bigger and then kind of just play around with it if i want some small ones i can go
here so i could take this circle here and drag it down you can see there and i could make it smaller
too so if i want to make it smaller enough to fit two in there i could do that and if
i want this small one up here let's say i want to make it go around it so i'm gonna do that
and then i could do this and maybe do that you can see what i'm doing there maybe a top one up here
look at that so that that's kind of turning out like that so you can see i'm making a mandala
design just with circles or dots and you can do your own pattern you can play around with it just
have fun with it you can do a new one every time and change the colors i'll show you what i did
here i actually made one here just using that same idea right smaller circles bigger circles
changing the colors look at that isn't that a cool design a mandala dotted design so that's how easy
that is just using the same techniques and again so you can use any number i use 24 for my star
but if you wanted to do a 20 pointed star or you wanted to do a 36 pointed star it would change the
the way this looks too so have fun with this the possibilities of this is endless so hopefully
this was really educational for you let me know in the comments if you like this tutorial if you have
used symbols before in affinity designer you can see how powerful this is how it makes everything
easy just with a click you you make a whole pattern of different things so symbols are great
thanks so much for watching this video hopefully it was really helpful for you
and your reward for staying till the end is another edition of trend credits
Thanks for staying to the end for this trend credit. Here is your trend, "My green jacket
is in the wash" so of course this is the golf reference green jacket right to win the masters
so you can see some low bsrs here super funny very relatable for golfers i think this would
be a great present for them and let's check Merch Informer it is getting an A so you know it's good.
If you don't have Merch Informer I have a link in the description for Merch Informer. I believe
they're still having their big sale, so make sure to get Merch Informer if you don't have it already
again here is your trend my green jacket is in the wash you're going to want to do yours different
than this of course make this for golfers right so it's something that they would want to wear
of course they're going to want to wear it because of the saying but you
also want to make it look nice so they would want to wear it too so do something different
than these make sure that it's nice and appealing for someone to wear as a as a gift
when they're out golfing maybe or out with friends so that is your trend thanks so much for watching
and that is it for this video hopefully this video is really helpful for you if it was make sure
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