How To Draw Zentangle Step By Step

This Easy Zentangle project is all the same (later four years) a favorite on my blog, and I know exactly why.

Doodling is incredibly relaxing. I'thou realizing that making art in a repetitive mode with cool patterns is on par with all the skillful furnishings people get from coloring books, but information technology appeals to people who desire to exist a little more active in their Arting.

When I start fabricated this tangle tutorial, I didn't realize that Zentangle™ had a lot of rules and guidelines, then I'm slowly switching to calling these projects 'tangles' instead.

My approach is a fleck looser than Zentangle, in that in that location aren't certain patterns, techniques, and certified teachers.

Pretty much annihilation goes hither if you accept a pen and newspaper and a willingness to invest in a little time drawing. You lot volition exist happy you did- let's get tangling!

How to Make This Zentangle Project

Okay. Catch a black ultra-fine Sharpie , a piece of white bill of fare stock , and something round i.eastward. a half-used curlicue of colored duct tape.

Trace circles all over the newspaper, overlapping some. I used my Sharpie for the circles, but feel free to use a pencil outset and so tracing over the circle with your marker.

Draw patterns inside the resulting spaces. This tangle cartoon took me a few hours to terminate, so if you want to kickoff smaller, y'all can either just make a few overlapping circles in the middle of the page and leave them outside of the page blank, or cut/rip your paper in one-half and merely tangle on one-half of it.

Extra Zentangles Tips

Don't worry too much well-nigh your initial circles – if they aren't perfect, they will be lost in the sea of patterns you draw.
You can alternate darker and lighter-looking patterns and so you have an overall visual balance on the page.
I approached mine past filling in the patterns starting in i area and moving out, without regard to what the overall result would await like. This appeals to my artist's brain, which is trained to take the finished product into consideration, carefully planning out the limerick and rest of my lines and patterns.
You really can't get wrong with this project- information technology's going to await cool no matter how you fill the spaces. The only thing I actually paid attention to was trying to alternate where I put dark and light patterns. And to a lesser extent, how I balanced the rigid and the wiggly patterns.
If you see a spot that looks too empty, you can go back in later and add more lines/patterns.
Y'all can repeat patterns! Especially in something like this, that has so many spaces to fill, relax into simply drawing the patterns. Information technology's easy to find patterns that are on the other side of the page that you lot tin can echo. They will look unlike in different spaces, also.
Don't worry if you make a error. I make around 3-4 mistakes with every drawing I do. No big deal- work it into your whole page somehow. Take a slow, deep jiff or 5, know that you lot can and hopefully will be doing 30,000 more of these, and use your 'mistake' equally a mode to offset a new pattern.

I similar to use this sort of project equally a way to relax.

It'due south a completely awesome fashion to jump off the screens for a while and become absorbed in something creative.

You can make information technology as mindless or mindful as you want, merely I like to protect my intention to relax into this and not make it a big stressful project.

It's sort of like knitting in that mode; you lot can pick it upwards and put information technology downwards at will.

Where to Find Tangle Patterns

I have put together a tangle pattern cheat sheet for you as a nifty identify to first. Yous tin also do searches on Pinterest and Google for 'Zentangle patterns' or 'putter patterns'. If you want to go super cool about this, check out your library for books on patterns. At that place are some amazing books out there chock full of visual inspiration.

Tip: Go along a tangle pattern sketchbook to flip through whenever you are in the middle of a drawing and demand some inspiration.

What practise I practice With The Finished Cartoon?

This might exist fun to color or watercolor in – remember since this is black and white you can hands scan your finished drawing and impress copies out to color.
Incidentally, if you like that thought, I have a whole book of ideas for cartoon your own coloring pages, and most of these work amazingly well to incorporate Zentangle into!
If you are using letter of the alphabet-sized carte du jour stock, yous can cut these in half or quarters and ship them equally postcards. Allow'south hear information technology for snail mail!
Laminate them and utilise them equally placemats or coasters or just weird surfaces to color on for your kids
Paint a watered-downward layer of gesso over this and use it as an art journal page
Cut them upward and collage them (This is my go-to idea for every project on this site) 🙂
Take information technology to a copy store and apply their laser printer to brand copies. You can utilise light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation prints in print transfer projects. YUM.
Employ them equally your paper for making Gelli plate prints.

Oh, besides, I used a Sharpie mark, considering I am in love with Sharpies.

Many people prefer Micron pens, for this or any sort of ink drawing.

Easy Zentangle Patterns Resource

If you want to read more most Zentangle and immerse yourself in projection ideas, hit upwards the official Zentangle site.

I had no idea it was such a huge 'thing', with officially certified teachers and all that. If you click over, they also link to their videos and blog where there are a ton more ideas for Zentangle.

This book is fantastic if you find yourself wanting more:

One Zentangle A Day: A 6-Week Course in Creative Drawing for Relaxation, Inspiration, and Fun (One A Day)

More than Tangle Supplies (Including for white-on-black)

Studio Serial Artist's Tiles: White (75 pack) Sakura Pigma 30062 Micron Blister Carte Ink Pen Set, Black, Donkey't Indicate Sizes 6CT Set up Zentangle Basics, Expanded Workbook Edition: A Creative Art Grade Where All Y'all Need is Paper, Pencil, & Pen (Design Originals) 25 Original Tangles, Beginner-Friendly Practice Exercises, & Techniques Sakura Gelly Roll Moonlight Pen Set, 1 mm Bold Tip, Assorted Colors, Pack of 10 Studio Series Artist's Tiles: Black (75 pack) Sakura 37488 Gelly Curlicue Archetype 08 (Medium Pt.) 3PK Pen, White

My volume, Describe Your Own Damn Coloring Book, offers upwardly the same amazing relaxation benefits as Zentangle. Y'all follow each prepare of easy directions to make your own (damn) coloring pages, that you can then cull to color in or tangle.

Draw Your Own Damn Coloring Book

Estimate WHAT!?

I have a gratis pdf for you to download full of Zentangle patterns. Plus…. browse the Craftwhack store for your favorite Tangle starter folio. They're rad. And here'southward a cool manner to do some tangling on top of watercolor.