
Explore sacred geometry through drawing and decoration, balancing concentration and precision to engage both left-brain focus and right-brain creativity with digital tools for inner insights.
Download this zip archive of exercise files for MacOS and Windows computers only. These files are not needed or usable on iOS or iPadOS devices.
Draw a square circumscribed about a circle using four quadrant circles and tangential arcs. Use a ruler to connect endpoints, foreshadowing earth and moon circles and a pyramid slope triangle.
Construct a sacred geometry diagram of the Great Pyramid slope, drawing construction lines and aligning angles to 52 degrees, layering green, orange, and golden colors, for symmetrical decoration.
Isolate the pyramid with a selection tool, using lasso, rectangle, or magic wand in additive or replace modes, then decorate on a new layer with color or gradients.
Apply a pre-made selection to a blank layer, fill with solid color or linear and radial gradients, then paint inside the selection with brushes for varied textures.
Explore layer-based editing to independently adjust decorations using opacity, blending modes, hue, saturation, and color balance across shadows, midtones, highlights, and lightness; save multiple versions for flexible designs.
Bring in raster images and integrate them into your sacred geometry composition using the picture icon, magic wand selection, erase tool, and nudge to position earth and moon.
Explore the vector drawing experience in Sketches, a geometry‑driven app with precise angle measurement and CAD‑like tools, and compare its pure geometry workflow with the raster approach in Sketchbook.
Learn to draw a line and circle in sacred geometry and digital creativity, using a proper infinite line, center‑and‑radius circle, snapping, and point tools for precise alignment.
Label points with letters A through Z and angles with Greek letters alpha through omega, then colorize and adjust line weights (heavy, medium, thin) and dash styles to differentiate objects.
Add circles to form vesicle shape, create the cross axis through the center, then label key intersections and compare angles for equality, while de-emphasizing construction lines with weight and color.
Explore drawing and shaping geometric figures, including a circle, square, and earth–moon proportions, using vector tools to square the circle and analyze the great pyramid slope angle.
Explore Adobe fresco on the iPad, featuring live brushes that blend watercolor and oil in real time, and understand raster and vector layers and cloud storage.
In sacred geometry and digital creativity, isolate the Great Pyramid on a new layer using polygonal selection. Paint with pixel brushes, lock transparency, and clip layers to create masonry textures.
Learn to integrate earth and moon images into a geometric diagram by importing photos, masking with selections, refining with transform tools, blending modes, and clipping brightness adjustments.
Explore using a layer mask to non-destructively hide and reveal pixels, painting black to hide and white to reveal, then merge layers to bake the result.
Create a textured background by adding a texture layer, painting with brushes, and adjusting hue, saturation, brightness, and color balance for depth.
Fill a pyramid precisely with color using a top reference layer and threshold in Procreate. Adjust the spill and sketch reference to refine edges with a round brush.
Use alpha lock to paint within existing pixels, adding texture without altering transparent areas. Experiment with hue, saturation, and brightness to create earthy, masonry, or smoky effects on the pyramid.
Refine sacred geometry sketches by masking and selectively revealing layers, then explore color, blur, noise, gradient, and digital effects to create a painterly geometry-inspired scene.
Learn to navigate and customize the desktop user interface in Sketchbook, including toolbars, lagoons, color puck and brush properties, to prepare for the sacred geometry project.
Draw smaller circles and arcs, align with crosshairs, and use the ruler to position the axis; navigate with zoom and pan, embracing imperfection toward a yin yang diagram.
Explore sacred geometry and digital drawing by constructing a circle with the ruler tool, using center at E and points F and G, then label and layer for precision.
Learn to construct the Great Pyramid triangle by labeling a pyramid layer, using the ruler to align base A–C and slope with point K, and managing layer order.
Integrate moon and earth images using a layered workflow: insert, scale, and move images, erase black areas with the magic wand and eraser, and reorder layers for composition.
Use object snaps in a vector program to draw a vertical axis through a circle's center, using the line tool in segment mode.
Learn to select objects in sacred geometry design by clicking to highlight blue grips, using shift for multiple selection, and mastering blue windows versus green crossing windows for precise edits.
Explore the modification tool set in the toolbox, learn to trim lines to segments and place circles using radius and two-point methods with snap and grips.
Learn to manage geometry with layers and color, import a basic layer set from the library, place objects on red, blue, yellow, green layers, and toggle visibility.
Learn how to export vector from Q using the legacy dxf format for compatibility, import SVG into Q, and choose TIFF or PNG-like raster formats for Photoshop, Procreate, and Illustrator.
Import and place a linked raster earth image in Illustrator, move it to the earth layer, resize with transform scale to fit the circle while preserving aspect ratio.
Import the moon image into Illustrator, fit it to a circle, convert the grayscale raster to vector with image trace, and refine edges in isolation mode.
Apply Illustrator and Photoshop effects to vector artwork, adding outer glows to the moon and earth, adjust opacity and blur, then export to raster or vector formats.
Use bevel and emboss on the square and add a drop shadow, adjusting distance, size, and opacity to create a dimensional 3D effect where the shadow falls on the circle.
Apply a raster pyramid texture using a mask and distort tools to align masonry, then enhance with inner shadow and contour effects for dramatic decoration.
Scott Onstott guides you through many techniques and workflows for turning digital sacred geometry line drawings into pixel art. The creative possibilities are endless! It's a bit like drawing your own adult coloring book and then decorating to your heart's content.
This course covers a variety of software tips and techniques, for the purpose of drawing, decorating, and experiencing sacred geometry. This course includes chapters showing drawing and/or decoration techniques in the following iPad, Mac, and Windows apps:
Sketchbook (iPad, Mac, Win — free mobile and paid pro desktop versions)
Euclidea: Sketches (iPad app — free)
Procreate (iPad — paid app)
Scott's Q sacred geometry drawing app (Mac, Win — open source)
Adobe Fresco (iPad, Mac, Win — freemium and paid versions)
Adobe Photoshop (Mac, Win — trial and paid versions)
Adobe Illustrator (Mac, Win — trial and paid versions)
Adobe After Effects (Mac, Win — trial and paid versions)
It is not expected that you will use every one of the above apps, but by including a wide variety of chapters and techniques in this course, your instructor exposes you to new creative possibilities for exploring sacred geometry, no matter whether you own an iPad, Mac, or Windows computer (or any combination).
Many of the apps are available in free, freemium, trial, and open-source versions — making drawing and decorating sacred geometry as accessible as possible to the most people. In addition, some pro and paid versions with premium features are available in some apps for those with an interest and budget to go deeper in their creative explorations of sacred geometry!
This course includes extra content, in the form of (3) versions of Scott Onstott’s Geometra: Coloring Book as 8.5"x11", A4, and PNG formats. You can print these out and decorate with traditional media or import any of the PNG images into your favorite app for digital decoration using techniques learned in this course.