Hi, Tom here with my second drawing of
the Triquetra Celtic Knot,
the first step in this drawing is to
draw an equilateral triangle, just a
simple triangle and each of the lengths
of the triangle need to be equal and
then we can just put a small cross or
mark in the center of this
equilateral triangle,
next draw some big curves between each
of the points of the triangle and each
of the curver sort of goes looping over the
the cross in the center,
once we've done three of these curves,
making sure that each one curves over
the cross in the center, then we need to
draw another curved next to the first of
each of these three curves, making like
double lines
now each of these double lines needs to
go around the original cross and the
center of our triangle and they
also need to stop before they reach the
three points of our original triangle,
now once we've got all of
the double lines for the first three
curves, we can draw a circle that is a
bit smaller than the three points of the
new curves that we have just drawn and
then we can tidy up drawing a little bit
here and erase some of the
original triangle,
next we can draw another
circle inside the first circle, so that
it has a double line, so it's like a
double circle,
and then we can darken the top left
double line to make a bridge and darken
the double line that crosses under this
bridge and then just erase the marks
on the top of the bridge, so that
it is clear,
now for each of these junctions or
crossroads we need to make a bridge and
a tunnel so we need to work out which one
is a bridge and which one is a tunnel,
and then erase the lines on the bridge
in the order in which I'm doing it, so
that the lines can follow through,
but you need to be careful to put the
bridges in the right place, you might
need to pause this video at each stage,
because I found it, its straightforward
as long as you get it right, as with a
lot of things, but if you get it wrong it
just goes to pot, so to do the bridges and
the tunnels one by one,
as long as you get each one right, it
will work in the end, so it's what I'm
saying is it's just not a good idea to
and rush the stage because it is
actually quite straightforward as long
as you follow through,
so here is another crossroads at the top
of this drawing
if you look at your drawing as it goes along
you'll see that each of the bridges in
turn turns into a tunnel if you go on
the road as it were... so that after a
tunnel
the next thing along will be a bridge
then after bridge the next thing along will be
a tunnel, and that's the thing that makes
it into a knot like pattern
and now we can darken
all of the lines of the road as it
were, that are not already dark,
here for example is a bridge I did not notice,
so it's time to draw that in,
and then the last step in this drawing
is too
draw a graded tone on each side of
each bridge and this will emphasize the
effects of the weaving interlacing knot
like pattern of this Celtic Knot...
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