While I liked some of these versions, none of them looked quite right. I like that it’s a little unpredictable - with streaks and globs and splatter - and I’m always thrilled when a happy accident improves the design.Īs you can see, I create tons of variations, tinkering with brush sizes, stroke direction, the amount of ink in the brush, and other stuff. I also like to have an excuse to play with ink and brushes, so that’s how this one came together. There are countless ways to do this - charcoals, crayons, digital painting, markers - and I’ve experimented quite a bit over the years. That means creating a version of the sigil that will (hopefully) catch other people’s eyes. In my case, however, I’m also making art for my website and social media. The sigil is complete, if you want it to be. When the sigil looks and feels “right” to you, it’s done. This is also the step where most people could happily stop. Much like every other stage in the process, there is no one “right” way to do this.
Once I’ve found a design I like, it’s time to start on the final design. In particularly thorny situations, I’ll even start the entire process over from scratch, just to give myself a clean slate. Sometimes these ideas come easily, as seen in the picture, but sometimes it can take pages and pages of sketches to find one I like. I try to keep these new symbols as simple as possible - four or five pencil strokes at most - because I’ll be further combining them in the next step.įrom here, I generally play around with a few ideas, combining elements of symbols as I go. I generally start by picking two letters from the grid of consonants, and start combining lines, curves, curls, dots, and other pieces of those letters together. Here, I’ve simply started combining elements of the letters together. The next step is to abstract the remaining letters even further. To keep things simple - and to speed up my next step - I arrange these letters into a grid. The words stop being as meaningful, but the symbols behind the sigil’s intent remain. This first step is meant to abstract the coherent words into a less-coherent jumble of letters. It’s no better than any other method, it’s just easier to explain. While there is an “occult” tradition behind this method, I wouldn’t get hung up on thinking that it’s the “right” way to make a sigil. I’ve written out the text, and I’ve isolated the consonants from the sentence. It said simply: “She will see me in a romantic way.”Īs you can see, I’ve gone with the most basic sigil-creation method here. It came at the request of a young woman who wanted to catch the romantic attentions of another female. In this post, I’m going to show the step-by-step method I used for creating the most recent sigil I’ve published. While there are many, many ways to create sigils - magic squares, automatic drawing, grid overlays - the methods don’t really matter all that much. Even for a complete newcomer, the process should take less time than a coffee break. One of the most common messages I get on Tumblr goes something like this: “What is your process for creating sigils? It can’t be as simple as scrambling up letters, so what’s the real secret?”
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