While creating my personal mandalas, I valued having the opportunity to let go and focus on nothing other than me and the drawing for a period of time. I found it relaxing, especially because of how symmetric it is, but I think I obsessed a bit with getting the lines just right. For the colored mandala, being able to use color really helps you tell a story, since each color has a different meaning and feel to it, and the combination of hues greatly affects the overall mood of your mandala. I had a lot of fun making contrasting areas by using black and bold colors! However, I also liked how bold and simple the black and white one is.
My personal mandalas reminded me of how often I overthink my works: throughout the process I found myself deleting lines, again and again, discarding ideas and sections, switching colors around multiple times, and altering the smallest details. I might need to stop overthinking and simply let things flow. On the other hand, I also realized I completely neglected the circular guidelines we had set in the mandala templates and instead worked on my own design.
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