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-: Hello, I'm Amina.
And I'm a visual artist
and I teach Islamic geometric patterns and arabesque art.
Today's lesson is gonna be geometric patterns
and we are gonna use an isometric grid
to draw geometric patterns.
You can download an isometric grid
from my website @aminaquraishi.com,
under workshops, under resources,
you'll find this template that you can download
and use to do this lesson.
So here is an isometric grid and an isometric grid
is basically a grid of equilateral triangles.
Equilateral triangles are triangles
that have three equal sides.
So we're gonna start off
with drawing a pattern that looks something like this
with stars and hexagons.
So using this isometric grid here,
in the corner here I'm just gonna start
by showing the different shapes
that you can get from here.
So you have the very basic shape,
which is an equilateral triangle.
You can also draw a six pointed star.
So that's one triangle here
and in total, this is 12 triangles.
You have one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12.
And this gives you a nice six pointed star.
Another shape that you can draw is a hexagon.
The hexagon, you have these six equilateral triangles.
One thing you'll notice about these shapes
is they all have multiples of three.
So a triangle has three sides, this star has six points,
which is a multiple of three,
and it has 12 sides, which is also a multiple of three.
This hexagon has six sides,
which is also a multiple of three.
And that's because we're using a grid of triangles
and triangles have three sides.
So let's start with our pattern.
We're gonna start in the center of the page,
and we're gonna start with the six pointed star.
I'm gonna start over here
and that's where I'm gonna start my star,
and I'm just gonna mark this down here,
and I recommend that you use a ruler
so that you get nice straight lines.
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
around the star and I'm gonna draw hexagons.
So I'm gonna skip the tip of the star,
I'm gonna skip one space and that point is gonna be
where my hexagon starts.
That point, that point, that point and that point.
Now we have a star with six hexagons,
and now I'm gonna draw six more stars.
These stars are gonna start at these points,
kinda mark out where the bottom of the star goes.
Bottom of the star, goes one triangle, two, three, and four.
So you can put a mark there.
You can do that for all six stars.
This one will go this way,
so it's one triangle, two, three, and four.
I'm gonna draw in all the stars,
you wanna take your time.
Make sure your lines are nice and clean.
So now we have six stars, one in the middle
and six hexagons.
So we have these spaced out with about one triangle width
in between each shape.
Now what I'm gonna do is, we're gonna take this
and we're gonna turn this into this pattern here.
So this pattern, if you look at it,
you have the star in the center,
you have six stars on the outside,
and then you have these hexagons.
There's some additional hexagons here that we'll draw in.
And if you look at this pattern,
what's really is that there's a weave around it.
So this acts sort of as a border around each shape,
and then you can weave that border
so it goes under, over, under, over,
under, over, under, over,
so creates sort of a basket effect,
like you're weaving a basket.
And I'm gonna show you how to do that.
This may seem a little bit daunting at first,
but it's actually quite simple.
So over here, I've added six additional hexagons,
over here, in between the stars.
And now we're gonna work on our weave.
So let's start at the tip of this star here.
And let's say that this first line is gonna go over.
Now, we're gonna start at this point.
So we look at what was happening before,
this part came from under.
So over here, it's gonna go over.
So we're gonna connect the lines this way.
And one way to check if you've been doing it right,
is that when you get back to the first point,
it still follows that same rule.
So it's still going over, under, this one's over.
So it's working well over here.
If you find a spot that you're going over
and over again, that means somewhere along the lines,
you made a bit of a mistake
and you might have to backtrack and find where
that mistake is and fix it.
So now that I'm finished weaving my pattern,
we can color it in a nice way
to create some sort of shading.
So we have our stars and this is the border
that you weave.
So where the lines go over and under,
you can create a shadow.
So this line is going over,
so you can create a shadow underneath it.
And the way that I'm gonna do that
is I'm just gonna color it in lightly,
sort of using this cross-hatching method
and I'm gonna create a shadow.
So it creates that visual effect that this line
is underneath this line.
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,
you can also even just go in with a bit
of another color, and go over just a little bit.
That's another little dimension.
I'm just gonna do it closer to the center,
so it sort of becomes lighter as it comes out.
And there we have it.
We have a beautiful geometric pattern with these stars
and hexagons, and we created a weave out of the border.
It looks like a basket.
And just like this pattern, there are many other patterns
that you can create using the same isometric grid,
such as this pattern.
Over here, we have the same three shapes,
we have a star, hexagon and triangle.
This pattern here,
we have star, hexagon,
and we have this other interesting shape here,
sort of this L shape that goes around the star.
I hope you enjoyed this,
and I hope you get a chance to try this out.
You can head over to my website to find the template
that you can print out.
You can print out multiple copies
and make multiple different patterns.
My name is Amina, and I hope you enjoyed this,
and I hope you get a chance to draw this, thank you.
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