• For my Henna Designer, I wanted to incorporate mandala designs into the font and the alphabets would be inside and be part of the mandala, as seen in the two drafts below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• To imitate the colours of the Henna, I tried using different shades of the brown colour pencils.
• However, the tip of colour pencils are not fine enough to create detailed textures of the mandala.
• Thus, I planned to stick to my black pen for rendering the mandalas as I could go as detailed as I want, with the finer tips available.
• I also felt that the mandala designs were enough to imply Hennas, without the need of the brown colour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• I kind of like the draft I planned out and tried to make a more detailed version of my idea for the final.
• However, I did not really like it because the alphabets look as if they were forcefully squeezed into the mandala and they do not look like they belong to a part of the mandala naturally.

 

 

 

 

 

 

• My next attempt to kind of make the alphabets look like they are part of the mandala this time did not really work any better too.
• I also used tracing paper this time to achieve a more accurate mandala this time, instead of just estimating the space and size of each quadrant of the mandala.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• My third attempt to make the alphabets look like they are part of the mandala by making the ends of the alphabets curvy and eventually going towards the mandala.
• Still did not look very convincing :/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• In the end, I scrapped the idea that the alphabets had to be inside the mandala.
• This time I thought of putting the mandala along the sides of the alphabet.
• I felt that this idea was better but something could sill be improved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• At the same time, I felt that I should refer to a few henna designs done on hand online because the ones I have been doing are a little too flowery and can be mistaken as Florist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Besides the idea on top, I came up with another idea to create fat bigger fonts that could cater to the size and patterns of mandalas inside them.
• I suddenly came up with an idea to merge this idea and the previous idea together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Merging the idea of having the mandalas along the edges of the alphabets and also having the mandala inside the alphabets, resulted in the detailed draft below.
• I finally like this idea!