Yin-yang is an ancient Chinese symbol denoting a balance between opposites. Two values are embedded in it. First: everything is constantly changing. Second: opposites complement each other (without dark there is no light - and vice versa). And to draw the yin-yang sign is very easy.
Materials
For drawing you need paper, a simple pencil and a regular eraser. To get yin-yang neat and even, take a ruler and a compass. Also prepare colored pencils, paints or markers if you want to colorize your future drawing.
How to draw yin yang
You can depict the yin-yang symbol by following a few simple steps:
- Using a compass, draw a circle on the paper.
- Take a ruler and draw two lines, vertical and horizontal, through the center of the circle. These lines will be auxiliary, so try to make them barely noticeable.
- Inside a large circle on a vertical line, draw two identical smaller circles. Each of them should be in one edge in contact with a large circle, and the other with a horizontal auxiliary line.
- Draw another horizontal strip, dividing the upper circle in half in half. With it, you determine the center of the circle.
- In the center of the upper circle, draw a small circle.
- Similarly, draw a line through the bottom circle and draw a small circle in its center.
- Erase the auxiliary lines, leaving only a large circle and two figures inside it.
- Erase the right half of the top shape and the left half of the bottom to get two waves.
- Color the upper wave in black, leaving the small dot unpainted, and lower the white wave white, painting only a small circle inside.
You can also find the yin-yang symbol with eight trigrams drawn on the outer circle. They look like a set of solid and broken lines drawn over each other. Each trigram includes three such lines.
Other drawing ideas
The concept of yin-yang can be depicted not only with the help of a traditional black and white symbol. You can draw yin-yang using other opposing colors. But that is not all. You can depict this symbol as a change of day and night, where the sun and moon will be in place of small dots.
You can also depict two waves in the form of fire and water or air and earth. In addition, the yin-yang symbol can often be found in the form of two fish or some kind of animal. Another idea for the yin-yang image is a change of seasons. The main thing is to keep the main meaning, and the rest depends on your imagination.