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-: Hello, I'm Amina.

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And I'm a visual artist

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and I teach Islamic geometric patterns and arabesque art.

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Today's lesson is gonna be geometric patterns

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and we are gonna use an isometric grid

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to draw geometric patterns.

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You can download an isometric grid

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from my website @aminaquraishi.com,

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under workshops, under resources,

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you'll find this template that you can download

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and use to do this lesson.

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So here is an isometric grid and an isometric grid

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is basically a grid of equilateral triangles.

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Equilateral triangles are triangles

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that have three equal sides.

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So we're gonna start off

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with drawing a pattern that looks something like this

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with stars and hexagons.

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So using this isometric grid here,

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in the corner here I'm just gonna start

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by showing the different shapes

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that you can get from here.

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So you have the very basic shape,

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which is an equilateral triangle.

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You can also draw a six pointed star.

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So that's one triangle here

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and in total, this is 12 triangles.

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You have one, two, three, four, five, six,

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seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12.

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And this gives you a nice six pointed star.

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Another shape that you can draw is a hexagon.

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The hexagon, you have these six equilateral triangles.

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One thing you'll notice about these shapes

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is they all have multiples of three.

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So a triangle has three sides, this star has six points,

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which is a multiple of three,

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and it has 12 sides, which is also a multiple of three.

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This hexagon has six sides,

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which is also a multiple of three.

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And that's because we're using a grid of triangles

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and triangles have three sides.

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So let's start with our pattern.

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We're gonna start in the center of the page,

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and we're gonna start with the six pointed star.

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I'm gonna start over here

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and that's where I'm gonna start my star,

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and I'm just gonna mark this down here,

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and I recommend that you use a ruler

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so that you get nice straight lines.

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We're gonna start by drawing our six pointed star.

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Next, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna leave space

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around the star and I'm gonna draw hexagons.

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So I'm gonna skip the tip of the star,

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I'm gonna skip one space and that point is gonna be

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where my hexagon starts.

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That point, that point, that point and that point.

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Now we have a star with six hexagons,

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and now I'm gonna draw six more stars.

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These stars are gonna start at these points,

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kinda mark out where the bottom of the star goes.

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Bottom of the star, goes one triangle, two, three, and four.

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So you can put a mark there.

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You can do that for all six stars.

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This one will go this way,

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so it's one triangle, two, three, and four.

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I'm gonna draw in all the stars,

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you wanna take your time.

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Make sure your lines are nice and clean.

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So now we have six stars, one in the middle

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and six hexagons.

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So we have these spaced out with about one triangle width

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in between each shape.

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Now what I'm gonna do is, we're gonna take this

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and we're gonna turn this into this pattern here.

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So this pattern, if you look at it,

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you have the star in the center,

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you have six stars on the outside,

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and then you have these hexagons.

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There's some additional hexagons here that we'll draw in.

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And if you look at this pattern,

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what's really is that there's a weave around it.

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So this acts sort of as a border around each shape,

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and then you can weave that border

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so it goes under, over, under, over,

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under, over, under, over,

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so creates sort of a basket effect,

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like you're weaving a basket.

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And I'm gonna show you how to do that.

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This may seem a little bit daunting at first,

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but it's actually quite simple.

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So over here, I've added six additional hexagons,

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over here, in between the stars.

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And now we're gonna work on our weave.

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So let's start at the tip of this star here.

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And let's say that this first line is gonna go over.

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Now, we're gonna start at this point.

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So we look at what was happening before,

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this part came from under.

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So over here, it's gonna go over.

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So we're gonna connect the lines this way.

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And one way to check if you've been doing it right,

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is that when you get back to the first point,

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it still follows that same rule.

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So it's still going over, under, this one's over.

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So it's working well over here.

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If you find a spot that you're going over

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and over again, that means somewhere along the lines,

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you made a bit of a mistake

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and you might have to backtrack and find where

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that mistake is and fix it.

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So now that I'm finished weaving my pattern,

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we can color it in a nice way

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to create some sort of shading.

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So we have our stars and this is the border

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that you weave.

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So where the lines go over and under,

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you can create a shadow.

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So this line is going over,

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so you can create a shadow underneath it.

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And the way that I'm gonna do that

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is I'm just gonna color it in lightly,

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sort of using this cross-hatching method

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and I'm gonna create a shadow.

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So it creates that visual effect that this line

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is underneath this line.

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And we're gonna do that for every part that went under.

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Once you have all of this cross-hatching done,

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you can also even just go in with a bit

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of another color, and go over just a little bit.

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That's another little dimension.

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I'm just gonna do it closer to the center,

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so it sort of becomes lighter as it comes out.

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And there we have it.

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We have a beautiful geometric pattern with these stars

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and hexagons, and we created a weave out of the border.

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It looks like a basket.

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And just like this pattern, there are many other patterns

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that you can create using the same isometric grid,

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such as this pattern.

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Over here, we have the same three shapes,

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we have a star, hexagon and triangle.

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This pattern here,

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we have star, hexagon,

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and we have this other interesting shape here,

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sort of this L shape that goes around the star.

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I hope you enjoyed this,

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and I hope you get a chance to try this out.

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You can head over to my website to find the template

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that you can print out.

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You can print out multiple copies

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and make multiple different patterns.

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My name is Amina, and I hope you enjoyed this,

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and I hope you get a chance to draw this, thank you.

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