Mandalas are a very colourful and satisfying art form. I tried it for the first time too..
Materials required
Any plain paper
Pencil
Compass to draw circles - I used box lids of different sizes.
Sketchpens or pencil colours or crayons or water colours- Your choice
Sharp pointed pen.
If you are using a compass, just draw circles of different sizes to cover the sheet. But since everyone maynot have it or not know how to use it, I am sharing pics of how I did using different lids like small paint bottle, medicine bottle cover, small and medium steel box lids.
When we use compass, you can start with smallest circle or biggest one- whichever you like.
When using lids, it is ideal to start from biggest to get the other circles at even distance between each other.
So, this is the biggest circle which I drew first. Then I kept the second biggest inside that circle and ensured there is even space on all sides.
Similarly repeat for the rest. You can draw any number of circle. No restrictions on the gaps between circles too.
I suggest that using a pencil and scale, draw lines to divide the circles into 6 or 8 or 12 or 16 equal parts depending on size of the circles drawn. Then it would be easier to get even shapes all over the circle.
Now, you can draw the designs between the lines. Use a pencil to draw these lines so that you can erase them later after you finish drawing.
Colour them in vibrant colours..preferably one or two colours per circle will make the design look good.
Lastly use a sharp point pen to draw strokes inside the coloured patterns.
