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Zentangle Basics: Featuring Ideas with Zentangle Art, Shapes and Patterns
Discover Your Creativity with Zentangle
Zentangle is a type of art that arise from repeatedly writing in several patterns, which combine into a format. Zentangle is a type of art that is both fun and relaxation and meditation can help not to press ahead so as to reduce stress on the story around the body. Both can help art thit satisfaction in work and increase confidence in itself and as a tool for training and fuek, lunch with a Zentangle is popular among different people and widely different levels of sex and age.
Although a Zentangle is daunting task with a cross pattern to cross but the fact everyone can draw a Zentangle. It is not necessary that the student must be a drawing art. I'd just scribble line is drawn, then Yes, there are no any rules Zentangle and don't need to draw any image like it, there is no drawing or painting is not below or above the left or right, and the result is as expected, what is not. Because we may not know whether it will come out and we will stop drawing when we are satisfied with it.
What's inside?
- What is Zentangle Art?
- Benefit of Zentangle
- Understanding the Basics of Zentangle
- The First Steps to Making a Zentangle
- How to Make a Zentangle
- Zentangle Patterns for Beginners
- More Zentangle Patterns
- Tips when Zentangling
Start Creating Your Own Art with Zentangle !
Zentangle is a type of art that arise from repeatedly writing in several patterns, which combine into a format. Zentangle is a type of art that is both fun and relaxation and meditation can help not to press ahead so as to reduce stress on the story around the body. Both can help art thit satisfaction in work and increase confidence in itself and as a tool for training and fuek, lunch with a Zentangle is popular among different people and widely different levels of sex and age.
Although a Zentangle is daunting task with a cross pattern to cross but the fact everyone can draw a Zentangle. It is not necessary that the student must be a drawing art. I'd just scribble line is drawn, then Yes, there are no any rules Zentangle and don't need to draw any image like it, there is no drawing or painting is not below or above the left or right, and the result is as expected, what is not. Because we may not know whether it will come out and we will stop drawing when we are satisfied with it.
What's inside?
- What is Zentangle Art?
- Benefit of Zentangle
- Understanding the Basics of Zentangle
- The First Steps to Making a Zentangle
- How to Make a Zentangle
- Zentangle Patterns for Beginners
- More Zentangle Patterns
- Tips when Zentangling
Start Creating Your Own Art with Zentangle !
39 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 19, 2014
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December 14, 2014
Huh. This book seems like a bandwagon thing. It's a fine intro to Zentangling, I suppose, but there is _nothing_ here you can't get for free on the internet.
Perhaps the worst part is the conflicting advise in the written intro. As with all Zentangle things there's the usual business about it being meditative and relaxing etc. The author tells the tangler to empty her mind, relax, and be free.
Then he tells her to be mindful and careful of her drawings, following the patterns step by step.
So which is it? Are we free-form Zen or pattern-bound?
I've only been tangling for about three months. I've not taken any official classes from Certified Zentangle Teachers (CZTs). But like I said, there are so many of them now, and so many on YouTube, that it is fairly easy to pick up. That being said, I use some of the patterns out there (and in here) as starting points and then I do my own thing.
If you're looking for a basic collection of introductory patterns to get your feet wet this is an ok collection. But there's very little in the way of advice regarding materials, etc.
The main advantage to this book over the internet is having a volume of starter patterns all in one place, in a cheaper book than the Official ZenTangle books.
But it's nothing revolutionary.
Perhaps the worst part is the conflicting advise in the written intro. As with all Zentangle things there's the usual business about it being meditative and relaxing etc. The author tells the tangler to empty her mind, relax, and be free.
Then he tells her to be mindful and careful of her drawings, following the patterns step by step.
So which is it? Are we free-form Zen or pattern-bound?
I've only been tangling for about three months. I've not taken any official classes from Certified Zentangle Teachers (CZTs). But like I said, there are so many of them now, and so many on YouTube, that it is fairly easy to pick up. That being said, I use some of the patterns out there (and in here) as starting points and then I do my own thing.
If you're looking for a basic collection of introductory patterns to get your feet wet this is an ok collection. But there's very little in the way of advice regarding materials, etc.
The main advantage to this book over the internet is having a volume of starter patterns all in one place, in a cheaper book than the Official ZenTangle books.
But it's nothing revolutionary.
October 26, 2014
An interesting introduction to meditative drawing
First, this work is very short and would have been even shorter if the repetition and circumlocutions had been edited out. Secondly, it is all "how" and little "why". Nevertheless, it successfully explains Zentangles as a form of drawing meditation, which in its authentic form is always executed in black ink on a 3.5 inch square of paper. (Why 3.5? No explanation.) It is purely pattern based, never figural, beginning with an initial dot, circle, straight or curved line, allowing pattern to emerge from focussed but non-rational attention. The end result is said to be greater clarity and calmness of mind. The author then seems to contradict the "rules" by giving sample rectangles to imitate. What?! How can one be non-depictional if attempting to imitate someone else's design? This work successfully aroused my curiosity, but a clearer explanation must be found elsewhere.
First, this work is very short and would have been even shorter if the repetition and circumlocutions had been edited out. Secondly, it is all "how" and little "why". Nevertheless, it successfully explains Zentangles as a form of drawing meditation, which in its authentic form is always executed in black ink on a 3.5 inch square of paper. (Why 3.5? No explanation.) It is purely pattern based, never figural, beginning with an initial dot, circle, straight or curved line, allowing pattern to emerge from focussed but non-rational attention. The end result is said to be greater clarity and calmness of mind. The author then seems to contradict the "rules" by giving sample rectangles to imitate. What?! How can one be non-depictional if attempting to imitate someone else's design? This work successfully aroused my curiosity, but a clearer explanation must be found elsewhere.
May 23, 2015
Quite Helpful for the Beginner...
I've read several books on this subject in the last week or so. Most of them were geared towards a more advanced user. This book was very well written for the beginner and showed some initial basic steps on how to create a Zentangle. As a Kindle unlimited user I will be holding onto this one for a little while.
I've read several books on this subject in the last week or so. Most of them were geared towards a more advanced user. This book was very well written for the beginner and showed some initial basic steps on how to create a Zentangle. As a Kindle unlimited user I will be holding onto this one for a little while.
March 19, 2015
All kinds of rules!
Too many rules for what is supposed to be a medium of relaxation. Label this, border that and make sure it is 3"x5". Ignore all the anal rules the author so enjoys and you end up with some nice doodles.
A entangled by any other name is just a doodle.
Too many rules for what is supposed to be a medium of relaxation. Label this, border that and make sure it is 3"x5". Ignore all the anal rules the author so enjoys and you end up with some nice doodles.
A entangled by any other name is just a doodle.
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