Mandala Drawing Step-by-Step

1. Fold a 9x9 square of paper in half. 2. Then fold it in half again forming a smaller square.

1. Open up the piece of paper, now fold it into a triangle, then into a smaller triangle.2. Open up the piece of paperwith a ruler and pencil draw very light lines over your fold lines.

1. Place a compass in the center where all the lines meet. 2. Draw a circle as big as you can filling the paper

1. Draw at least 4 more circles in the larger circle making them different widths apart.

1. In each of the sections draw different shapes using the templates (* remember to repeat the same shapes in the same section).2. Go over the pencil lines with a fine tip felt tip pen.

1. Following the techniques of layering and variegating fill in the shapes with coloured pencil.

1. Cut out completed mandala and glue onto a piece of posterboard.

Mandalas can even be asymmetrical.