Greetings from Tasmania, Australia - thank you for this glorious informative, descriptive and FANTASTIC break-down of the Celtic knot. Grabbing my pencil now! ❤️🇦🇺
Thank you for this! I am a wood carver that is known for Celtic knot designs, and a writer of fiction like you. I'm also a musician, so your interest in sound is intriguing. Cheers!
I started working on a comic featuring Celtic designs. I’ve gone thru several books to learn knots. It’s all very frustrating. Your video, on the other hand, has enlightened me. Fantastic job! Thank you.
This was BY FAR the best "how to draw celtic knots" video out there. I've watched them use the graph paper and was lost by the second dot. This is a much, much better technique. Thank you so much for sharing it!
You’re a freakin superstar dude, really! I used to think that Celtic knotwork was extremely complicated... But you’ve helped me realize the geometric properties of the art, which, I imagine, is almost assuredly what the ancient celts were using to create this pieces of historical, Gaelic wonder!
I was only familiar with the grid method. Thanks for this fascinating, clear, and professional explanation of a different approach! I look forward to trying it.
This is so well presented! I must watch it again because I am not sure exactly how you know what shape to draw between the x’s, but I am sure you explain that. Thank you!!
I hope it's just as relaxing to do. I find it really calming: precise, but not difficult. A good way to distract oneself. Thanks for the compliment, Marius!
Thanks Ian - I love your ‘algorithmic’ approach to drawing knots. It’s a very different method but looks very widely applicable, especially if you’re trying to decide what design to fit into a particular shape. Thanks for sharing your insights.
I do really hope your other videos are just as good as this one. This is the simplest video I have seen yet, and I really like it. Thank you for taking your time to create it. Good luck in the future.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I used to be a programmer in previous life, so the software is my own. It isn't a kind of drag and drop of visual tool, unfortunately, so it wouldn't be worth sharing.
Hello Ian ^.^ I've been a great fan of these designs, altho I do want to jump from the rough paper measures to a more precise ones.. Can you please tell me what software can I use just to create some of this designs in my computer?
You can definitely do it with a heart or any other complex shape. The problem I guess, is that it is difficult to know what skeleton to draw to get the end result you're thinking of. If you want a particular output, the input isn't obvious. But I think beginning with a heart shape, maybe an inner heart a little bit smaller, and then lines between the outer and inner, as a skeleton for this method would give you something pretty. Give it a go on a scrap piece of paper!
I have been giving it a go, but so far, so messy. Do the Xs have to align in a linear grid? Or. Can they go wherever you see fit? Thank you for your reply. I am definitely hooked on learning this! 🙂
Because *they* might be listening! ;) seriously though, this channel is mostly about soft sounds and relaxation. I figured that few people who want to learn the technique would be unable to get past the soft speaking, but if I spoke in my normal loud voice, it wouldn't be good for the 'whispering' tribe.
