Your sigils are gorgeous! If you're comfortable answering, what method do you use to create them?
Hey there! I don’t have a specific method– here are some links to my redlines on previous sigils.
(Redlines of “Energy” and “My Pain Will be Manageable for Me Today” along with me answering this question before)
(Redline of “Relief from Loneliness”)
But let me try and expand on that, since maybe I can explain something that was missed in that answer?
On top of having a library of symbols that I use directly in sigils, I also try to incorporate significant iconography into my pieces, symbols are very powerful, even if they aren’t sigils, because they are meant to become mental shortcuts to associate shapes and ideas. And those symbol inspirations can be from anywhere, for example for; “Knowledge Flourishes Within” you can make out a symbol that draws on the shape of symbol of Jupiter/ the Greek letter zeta.
Each of it’s distinct parts already help to symbolize things like expansion, abundance and knowledge / higher education, but in the symbol that I made tweaking that shape, I focused on the “crossroad of two paths” portion of it’s symbolism.
And not everything is that high brow– even symbols like stairs and winners podiums have their place in my sigils. Like for “My Art will continue to improve and excel”, that motif was the key one.
And more common than that is sigils that play on shapes that invoke the feeling of green life growing, even when they aren’t about plants or green life. Like in these three:
I’m probably not the best person to emulate if you are just starting out and are the sort that likes rules or methods, all of my sigils are very organic. There’s really no wrong way to do a sigil. It’s far more about intent than it is anything else (in my practice, no disrespect meant to anyone who likes to use established methods)!
If you want to work on sigils and use a pre-established method, here are some good links for that! (They mostly focus on variations of statement/letters as symbol methods! With and without vowels)
Inkanddestroy’s A Small Guide to SigilsSigilDaily’s Creation and Activation GuideScry-and-Sketch’s Sigil AdviceTheSigilWitch’s Response About Sigils
I feel like all of them are infinitely more helpful than I am– but I hope I get better at explaining my method in time, and I also hope that this will help you in the meantime!
The only advice I have worth repeating is that intent is more important than technical ‘artistic’ skill, so don’t let yourself get down!
