Inkscape Mandala Design Tutorial: How to Create Mandala Art with Live Mirroring

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What a great tutorial, learned a lot of possibilities. Thank you so much Rick!!!

how do I now make it all ONE thing instead of 1000000 paths

Do you have a tutorial for creating multiple layer mandalas for layered laser cut files?

My daughter is going to LOVE this. Thanks Rick for helping us!

Brilliant tutorial, thanks.

This is such fun. I am making lots of wiggly lines repeat all over my page and connecting them up :) This also looks like a potential way to create the scaffolding for celtic knotwork so I expect I will investigate this further. Thank you for the clear tutorial.

quick question, I'm getting a duplicates after starting my mandala. I created a circle at the same stage as you did and each time I did one, there was 2. very annoying when I want to manipulate it. Do you know how i can turn that off?

Than you! Great tutorials they have helped! job! Ido have 1 quetion why do Iget 2 lines showing up when I add 1 line?

Wow this was super cool.

Rick, you are the master of doing it easily

Good job 😍 , i like it , i want more

Hello Rick. You've been my teacher for some time now, and I enjoy your tutorials so much as you speak slowly letting us match your speed, allowing us to see where your cursor goes and be able to follow your instructions. In this video, at timestamp 5.40, the end point that you move refuses to move on my laptop 😢. Instead, the other end moves 😳. Please guide me as to where I'm wrong or different 🤔🙄

OMG. Now I'm going to use this method for laser cutting a multi-layer paper Mandala. Thanks IronEcho for your concise instructions.

god i'm so bad i just want to make a 3d recumbent book thank you so much for your videos i've watched a lot already but i guess i'll have to infringe someone's copyright and find the svg on the internet

Great! Is it possible to color the areas between curve segments also like live paint bucket in illustrator?

i dont have guids ceator ?? where do i fint that

FINALLY!! A tutorial that makes sense!! Thank you!! What would be the best way to save/ export as SVG?

Hi, Rick! I'm trying to start my doily, but Windows 7 disagrees! It won't let me run the extension for Python-related reasons. Is there a way to manually centre the guides? I've looked, but if it's there, I'm missing it. Thanks ☹️

Update: I think I've found a workaround. Made a square half the size of the page and snapped it to the page corner, then snapped both guides to the shape's corners. Deleted the shape, opened document properties and locked the guides. Now I'll go try the project and hope all the other features in this tutorial work for me.

I'll leave these ramblings here in case anyone else with an ancient computer and the same obstacle happens by.

Updated face: 😀

Great tutorial, sir. This is simply magic! 😉

At around the 5min mark . Iron E pulls the straight paths into curves effortlessly. When I try they just move apart. I am missing something simple I know . .

You are going too fast. When you are teaching something new to someone you need to assume that they know nothing and you need to take it one step at a time and give people a chance to do what you want them to do.

Thank you.

OMG you blew my mind. Thank you so much!!

Mine does not have that second ribbon up top that includes how to change the page size. where do I add the ribbon

When I make a circle or a line, duplicate.

Thanks. This is cool and exactly what I wanted to learn how to do. But when I have all of the lines selected and go to "path effects" to select mirror symmetry the program says "Only one item can be selected" and it only works one at a time.

Wow...thank you!! This was great to learn!

Wow I love this

I love your videos so much I am now taking notes! One question: Did you ever figure out why lines double up in the final editing step? I know someone already commented with the same issue, but I didn't see a solution. I enter the group with the path effects, and as soon as I add anything it doubles the image. While I sometimes end up with some cool effects, I would prefer to have control over effect. Help!

This is amazing but how do you get new lines to have the same stroke and color? When I click to create a new bezier line, it defaults back to a gray 1.0 line instead of the blue 5.0 line I set with the first line selected.

are these steps pretty much the same for adobe?

I am pretty new to Inkscape and I am still trying to wrap my brain around everything it can do...I watched this entire video with my mouth hanging open, just in awe!

This tutorial is great! But I'm stuck once I'm done drawing all of the lines in mirror and rotate - how do I flatten/combine them into one single object without losing the path effects? I'm wanting to then be able to offset and apply other effects to the whole object for doing layered pieces.

Very nice. Many thanks

Great tutorial! Glad I found this channel. I will definitely subscribe right away

awesome👏

Just WoW ... I'm new to your channel this is awesome. i Think this gonna cost me some hours again watching video's... keep up the good work thanks in advance 🙂

Hey Rick, I am experiencing some bugs with Inkscpe on Macbook Pro. Any advice (or a link) on proper setting on MacO?

Excellent tutorial, but I have a problem. In the last step, the new one, the one I like the most, the image is duplicated. What I can do? Thank you

I use inkscape for my laser designs for like 4 years now. I'm so mad that I found your channel just yesterday but at the same time I'm so happy that I found your channel at all :) Now I have to watch all of your videos cause I know I will learn a lot. I saw few Nick's tutorials but I didn't catch the "alt selection" :) Omg, it's like another christmass present ^^

I'm just getting into designing and really enjoy your videos. You make everything look awesome and easy haha ... I find myself rewinding the video 3 or 4 times to keep up :)

Keep up the great work ill be going back through your previous videos to improve my Inkscape skills as time allows and im really grateful they are here.

Thanks, working great. Just curious - when I have basic mandala and I am drawing additional lines while my group is open - it works, but it always draws line 0,265 mm wide, even if I set previous to 1 mm. So I have to adjust line width every time I add something to mandala. Second - how to fill with colors? I tried it, but it only fills some of parts, others are filled partially. Can it be done?

Rick. Thank you for this tutorial. I managed to follow it along although in the beginning I lost a lot of time trying to find the document property button, that I was unable to find, I do have the Inkscape 1.2 but I don't see any of the buttons you have up there in the two lines below the menu. But I finally found it under File menu. I am new to Inkscape. * I would like to ask you for a tutorial on how to make layered mandalas for laser cutting or 3D printing using Inkscape. Also Is there a way to modify the path effects after they have being set up? I was unable to find them, they disappeared from the left panel. For example if I want to change number of copies after I started the design and I want to see what happens to the design if I change the number of copies.

These tutorials are invaluable. I have no prior knowledge or experience (besides setting a filter on my phone or canva. These are really helping give me a starting point. Thank you so much

Rick, got a show idea for you in line with the mandala series. Can you do a show on creating a 4'x4' barn quilt file that can be used to create an actual plywood barn quilt. Not sure if it's a midwest thing but they are very popular here in MN. Thanks!

Thank you so much Rick. I'm a beginner but I downloaded Inkscape 1.2. I discovered my path effect is not letting me select more than one item at a time which is making it a bit difficult to follow along with the tutorial. Please how do I fix this?

Can these be changed to a path with nodes? BTW you're doing a great job! I'm looking forward to more 1.2 tutorials.