Creating Ornate Mandala Animals in Adobe Illustrator

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This is a tutorial that has been requested many times after I shared some of these Mandala Animals in my Ornate Mandala tutorial a few years ago. • Creating Ornate Mandal...
In this video I break down all of the techniques and tools I use to make these highly detailed illustrations. The primary focus of the tutorial is on the techniques I use in Adobe Illustrator although I do mention a few steps that I take in Photoshop. The website that I use to source the reference images for this project is called Unsplash (unsplash.com)
Techniques covered in Illustrator include;
Importing reference image
Creating template layers
Using corner widgets to create clean corner radius elements
Rotate tool
Reflect tool
Transform again
Using the blend tool
Expanding and customizing blends
Shape builder vs scissor tool
Creating outlines and expanding final artwork
I can't wait for someone to show me their own mandala animal that they laser cut/engraved!!! These pieces of art would also make for awesome adult colouring book pages!
If you have any suggestions for other design based tutorials I'd love to hear them in the comments down below. Also if there was anything I missed in this video that you need clarification on let me know and I'll try to help out.
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13 окт 2024

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Комментарии : 31

@MetalanGrain 7 месяцев назад

I’ve now watched two of your videos. And learned more than the last dozen AI videos I’ve seen. Thank you!

@davewatkinscreative 7 месяцев назад

That's awesome! Glad to hear that I was able to help you learn a few things.

@brownvanlife 8 месяцев назад

I felt like I was listening to the voice of Roman Mars from 99% Invisible, only a Canadian version ;) Thank you for sharing the tips. I've used Illustrator on and off for 20 years but never really explored all of the options and you've pointed out some really helpful tips that cut down on the actual designing part simply due to rotates and refecting.

@nyxly5328 Год назад

Thank you, Dave. This was a great video. I appreciate seeing a process where it's about taking simple elements, the things Illustrator is good at, and then building up from there. Plus the images are beautiful. 🙏

@davewatkinscreative Год назад

Thanks so much for checking it out. That’s exactly why I love this style. At first glance it seems extremely complex but when you break it all down the underlying components are all pretty simple.

@lastminutetech Год назад

The wait is finally over. Thanks man. Would really like to know how you animate these illustrations like the one shown in the video.

@davewatkinscreative Год назад

Hopefully it was worth the wait! I had a feeling someone might ask about the animated version. Will try to put something together faster than I did on the original request.

@sudharsanlearn1827 11 месяцев назад

Thanks a lot for sharing this video with us. Learned a lot from this one video and I hope to see and learn more . Thanks again🥰💛.

@davewatkinscreative 11 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful! I’ve got lots of ideas in the works. Hopefully I can find some time in the near future to post new vids.

@sudharsanlearn1827 11 месяцев назад

@@davewatkinscreative sure, please take your time. Thanks!

@woolybeast1399 11 месяцев назад

Super cool stuff man. Love your pieces. This video was super helpful, as I'm working on some pieces of my own to laser cut. The tips you gave are going to come in extremely handy. Thanks again, you have a new subscriber. If you ever want to do a one off collaboration piece, I have a laser cutter, so lets talk!

@davewatkinscreative 10 месяцев назад

That's awesome. Thanks so much for subscribing. Glad to hear that you're going to be able to put these tips to good use.

@Edromar84 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for this amazing video.

@davewatkinscreative 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for checking it out! Glad you enjoyed it.

@SrinivasRao-g8z Год назад

Super detailed video. Thanks a lot

@davewatkinscreative Год назад

Appreciate that. Thanks for checking out the tutorial.

@drogersusa 7 месяцев назад

excellent tutorial - thank you!

@davewatkinscreative 7 месяцев назад

You're very welcome. Thanks for checking it out!

@sunduskhudro5453 Год назад

Thanks for sharing, I was waiting for this video ❤

@davewatkinscreative Год назад

You are so welcome! Hope it was worth the wait!

@ScubaGuy 11 месяцев назад

Nice Video. Just a thought have you tried transferring half of the face image along the line of symmetry from Photoshop into illustrator and then doing image trace and copy and flip to create a full line art face. Much faster albeit with some line deforms from your original art.

@davewatkinscreative 11 месяцев назад

I’ve used image trace when I’m looking for a more organic looking result. In this case I wanted these to look sharp and technical which is why I opted to handle this the way I did. That being said there are techniques to automate the mirroring in Illustrator to be faster than what I shared here.

@SumNumber 3 месяца назад

Pretty cool. I do something similar and it is fun to put these designs together. Make sure you reference your art as " Not AI'. I predict people will get sick of AI images and look for the art with the " Human Touch" which may increase its value. :O)

@davewatkinscreative 3 месяца назад

What a crazy time to be alive! Never thought I’d have to tag disclaimers on my work that I actually made it with my own skills. I supposed keeping behind the scenes footage and screen recordings of the creative process wouldn’t hurt to have on hand if those accusations ever arise.

@genabush4619 8 месяцев назад

Do you have a video on how to create the individual layers for laser cutting?

@davewatkinscreative 8 месяцев назад

Unfortunately I haven't created a laser cut version of these animal designs yet.

@TheNordicHunter Год назад

Great tutorial, but this is not what I thought the tutorial was going to be about when I saw the word Mandala. I thought you were going to show how to draw a Mandal using animal faces or shapes of some kind. So instead of leaf shapes and circles that are symmetrically placed in a 360 degree pattern, it's animals. I believe DesignCuts has a "kit" for doing such a thing, but it doesn't explain or show how it works. It would be cool to do though.

@davewatkinscreative Год назад

Thanks for checking out this tutorial... sorry if there was any false advertising involved. I wonder if swapping the order of the word Mandala in the title matches the description of the project that you're thinking of. So instead of a "Mandala Animal" like this tutorial it would be an "Animal Mandala" like the Designcuts kits? I found the following product over on DC (www.designcuts.com/product/rainforest-mandala-illustration-creator/) is this what you were thinking of? I will add it to my list of tutorials to make... but my track record for delivering these in a timely manner is not good.

@TheNordicHunter Год назад

@@davewatkinscreative Oh, no need to apologize or change the title my friend. It’s my brain that decided how to understand it and it got it wrong. It’s an excellent tutorial. That is one of the mandala kits that I was referring to. I thought there were animals, but maybe not. Brain thing again. Haha! That would be cool if you made a tutorial whenever you get a chance. Definitely not expected. Thank you for doing what you do to help others. Hope you have a great weekend! :)