How to Draw a Tessellation

Hey guys, it's me here today! I would like to teach you guys how to draw a tessellation! First of all for those of you who don't know what a tessellation is, well tessellations are flat surface of geometric shapes creating a pattern there are many kinds of tessellations, such as the ones you see on many fabrics. Today you are lucky and get to draw one! Some tools you will need

1. Pencil
2. A square trace
3. Math compass
4. Ruler
5. graph paper

Now that you have those items you are set to go, tessellations are quite simple but take a long time to complete depending on what design or how big your paper is. The first steps

1. Start by drawing a point in the middle of your graph paper
2. Get your square and make a square around the dot should be even such as having four squares around the dot
3. Now get you compass and trace your circle right by the edges of the square, this guides you for the next square you will draw
4. Now draw rotate you sqaure about 1/4 of a way and make sure to line it up between the circle and the lines you should end up with something like this

Now you can either erase the circle and the inside of the outline and make an 8 pointed star or you can make a more complex pattern such as this one, if you would like to make the more complex one continue reading the instructions below

1. Use your ruler to make lines between each little corner of the outline your result should look something like this below

Now all you have to do is erase the circle around it, erase the little squares the corners of the darker outline pictured above, now you will have to erase the inside and you should end up with this pattern continue the same process until you fill the page.

Here should what it look like when done erasing. Then once you have this and filled the page up with the same shape now decorate the shapes with designs and you got your tessellation!