Some artists struggle to get a nice composition in the design. It's actually not so hard. Follow these three steps to get a nicely composed design:
1-outline the flow of your design first.
2-choose your elements.
3-apply your design with good balance.
1-outline the flow of your design first.
- Circular flow for hands, palms or tops of feet. Also can be used for above the knee, inside the arm (elbow).
- Oval flow for inside the arm, thigh, or a long back piece
- Long flow for a hand design, spine, down the calf
- Square-ish flow for thigh, back, foot and sometimes the hand
- Triangular flow for under the breast, neck or back
2-choose your elements.
- One to three elements for the main part of your design--paisley, flower, leaf, triangle (Moroccan inspired), feather, dream catcher or other similar circular design, etc
- Two to four elements for embellishments--dots, vines, leaves, buds, leafy clusters, small flowers, swirls, curls, etc.
3-apply your design with good balance.
- Balance out the edges of your flow
- Space out your design
- Place embellishments close to each other in clusters
- repeat embellishments
- follow the flow of your design that you outlined