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UdemyIntroduction to Islamic Geometric Design
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Centuries of Craft, No Math Required
Islamic geometric design is built on techniques perfected over centuries, but this course proves you don't need calculations to create them—just a ruler, pencil, and marker. You'll learn to construct intricate patterns step-by-step, then tessellate them efficiently and embellish them with the styles and techniques that have adorned mosques, manuscripts, and ceramics across the Islamic world.
The real skill emerges in what you do after drawing: how you color, shade, and personalize transforms a geometric framework into something with life and character. This course teaches both the construction and the artistry, showing techniques used across different regions of the Islamic world so you're not just making sterile technical drawings but creating designs that reflect centuries of aesthetic tradition and your own creativity.
About this course
This course will enable you to make patterns and to learn to understand Islamic geometric compositions. You will only need a ruler/straight edge, a pencil and a marker to make these patterns. You won't have to make any calculations, just follow my step by step instructions and you will be amazed at what you can create, using the same design techniques Islamic craftsmen have used for centuries. I will also show how to tessellate patterns in an efficient way and, importantly, how to embellish patterns. Islamic geometric design is not just about drawing patterns with black lines. What you do to the patterns after you have drawn them, how you make them more beautiful is a very important part of using your personal creativity. I will show some techniques and styles that have been used over the centuries in different part of the Islamic world to make geometric compositions more beautiful.
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