I just got my copy of the new book One Zentangle A Day: A 6-Week Course in Creative Drawing for Relaxation, Inspiration, and Fun. I got up to page 24 and I just couldn't wait to get started! Out came my pen and I followed this first project, which is designing your Zentangle mark (or initial signature) that defines your Zentagle as yours.
Here is my first page of my initial sketching:
Not sure I quite landed on what my initial signature is going to be but I had so much fun sketching (or doodling as the case may be)! It did feel reminiscent of time spent back in school doodling while the teacher was lecturing or waiting for the bell to ring signalling the end of detention...ooops, did I just share too much?
More about the new Quarry book:
One Zentangle A Day: A 6-Week Course in Creative Drawing for Relaxation, Inspiration, and Fun
by
Beckah Krahula
One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises.
Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing, by using repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes. Each mark is called a "tangle," and you combine various tangles into patterns to create "tiles" or small square drawings. This step-by-step book is divided into 6 chapters, each with 7 daily exercises.
Each exercise includes new tangles to draw in sketchbooks, teaches daily tile design, and offers tips on related art principles, and contains an inspirational "ZIA" (Zentangle Inspired Art) project on a tile that incorporates patterns, art principals, and new techniques.
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