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Tutorials

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
Design & Illustration
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
Design & Illustration
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
Design & Illustration
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
Design & Illustration
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
Design & Illustration
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
Design & Illustration
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
Design & Illustration
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
Design & Illustration
Creative Arabic Calligraphy: Putting It All Together
For this final lesson, I am creating a calligraphic project from start to finish, as an example of what can be done using the material learned in this course.
Joumana Medlej
28 Jul 2015
Design & Illustration
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
Design & Illustration
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
Design & Illustration
Creative Arabic Calligraphy: Ornamentation and Symmetry
In this tutorial we'll look at a few of the many possible ways to add layers of beauty and intricacy to an inscription.
Joumana Medlej
3 Jun 2015
Design & Illustration