Marziottangle

I must admit, I have been trying for a while to do a pansy pattern that does not look too much like a pansy. In the process I came up with other flowers, and with perfect copies of pansies. Then a mix between a petunia and a campanula (Italian names, sorry) came out. This is the first well organised tangle I put it in. I have been looking for a tangle to put by the side of Condor for a while among existing patterns, but then I figured one out on my own! :) Condor, Nula, Tut 17-18 June 2025 Here is where Nula has been born. It looks a bit like Beach Buck, but I like it better. Arkand, Beach Buck, 'Nside, Nula - 17 June 2025 And here again a thread connects the flowers.  Nula, Tulipa, Lenche. 18 June 2025 Here you can see all my attempts with the pansies. Izzy, Viking, Aeroark, Moinmoin 16-17 June 2025 Bitona, Boulder Bilder, Tut, Mel Mel, Angel Fish. 16 June 2025 Harp, Bitona, Bloomerz. 17 June 2025 Here you can find the deconstruction of the pattern, and some variations. Nula, Tut,...

Have you ever been to Berlin for the Whit long weekend? You could easily end up around the Carnival of the World Cultures. Different kind of music and food and parades all around. A feast of colors, of people, of happiness. This year it was the first time I saw it with Zentangle eyes. I see patterns everywhere, On the last day I was checking the stands, to eat and drink new stuff, and maybe buy some clothes. And right there I was struck by the colors of the lanterns at a Vietnamese stand. After having walked some kilometres to check each and every stand around, I stopped and started drawing. I just saw some patterns in the tanglepatterns mailing list, and started to draw also a tree-of-life-like pendant and the lanterns. Den Long, F-Clawin, Cirque, Orciolo, Dark Busters, Yumemi, Harmoony. 9 June 2025 The lanterns decorating the stand. Arent they cute? Two of them made it to my messy place. One of the best souvenirs I ever bought. The first tea bags. Den Long. 10 June 2025 Here Den Long...

I think this is the first pattern I came up with. I had some empty space, and Iwas not so happy with the way I drew Pepper. I am too shy with shading with the pencil, and in the beginning I never even tried. It reminds Pepper, but not in a ring shape, rather a line. But the line can be as irregular as you want! You draw two dashed lines and then decide how to connect the dashes of one line to the ones of the other. If you need some more dashes, you just draw them. I also drew Ayame so bad here to the point that it is not recognizable, but it was less than 2 weeks that I was tangling... I recognized the pattern only by checking my YouTube history. This video from Emiko Kaneko would be a better reference! Pepper, Saltz, Bugz, Ayame, Mooka. 5 June 2025 This is the first deconstruction I came up with. I was suggested to give examples with zentangle tile format and to avoid text in images. Notice that I use the defnition string, when I should have used ribbon. I have not studied all Zentan...

Today I did this tangle. I found the steps on Pinterest, but it had no name. I like it, but I could do it better. It will come useuful when I have a lot of white space in a page. It is also easy to "draw big", while many tangle patterns come easy only in small size. Pinterest has so much nice stuff, I have to be careful not to get trapped there for hours! 21 July 2025 I usually do not fall for heart tangles, but I had fun filling these hearts in a lot of different ways. And I love Eddyper. It is so elegant, easy, it grows in the page, you can manage it easily... Indi-a, Eddyper. 30 June 2025 I think that once I asked chatgpt all tangles that reminded diamonds and other jewels. None of tthe ones here was suggested. Another proof that chatgpt is still not the best tool with Zentangle, unless you want some random names to practice. Squiggles, Bonnie, Barney, Veerap. 30 June 2025 Cider looks like a Lindt chocolate. :D Now I want some chocolate! I always want some chocolate! Cider...

Here I started with Sorry. There are some nice tutorials on Youtube, but I think it still comes complicated for me. Then I looked for some random stuff to fill the rest of the page. Sorry, Barbed Twist, Zailz, Paradox. 5 July 2025 Something is crazy about finery. When I did not double lines it seemed so useless, and I loved it with a bit more of depth. As for Vigne, I did not like my way of drawing it following the exact steps, but I like my variation with very solid black petal dividers. Finery, Vigne, Youdoo, Elirob. 7 July 2025 Here I started with Kozy. I am not happy with the result, I could not understand what is my way to draw it. I also tried Showgirl here and Twilight in other tangles, but all of them don't come out very well of my pen. Kozy, Showgirl, Lolo, Snircles, Stitch. 8 July 2025 I love Trelina but it was a while I was not drawing it, at least on the home sketchbook. I mixed it with another favorite, Yumemi, and a couple of tangles I trained in the tea bags. I must ...

In the beginning I was always finding a nice pattern, then putting it in a random part of the page. Then the same for another pattern and another one. Slowly slowly I started to plan a bit more, to divide the areas , to use only 4 or 5 main patterns in my A5 sketchbook. I still also did pages where I mainly trained patterns without any conscience of the space I was filling, or repeated a pattern until I found a way to make it that I liked (or until I gave up). But there were some pages with a sense. Finally. Here I was mainly training Mazorini with this video from Tanglewerk CZT , and then tried to fill the gaps. Mazorini, WhatTheWell, Orciolo, Zenith. 30 May 2025 This is the first tangle I indeed love love love that I did. Would I have loved zentangle as I did without this tangle? Possibly, but each and every tangle was a small part of this unexplainable magic that happened. I mean, I always thought I could draw if I wanted, I know how to make nice lines but always lacked the practice...

I have been following several YouTube channels to find inspiration and to learn how to draw patterns, even if lately I rely strongly on the steps from tangle patterns. Lately I found another one, that is quite interesting, TanglesandToons . The first thing I checked was the ocean project . Here you can find the first video. I liked the approach that was not pure zentangle and the easy approach to shading. I did not make all elements together yet in the same drawing, so far I simply did a page with all tangles and one with the toons part. I will probably update the post later when I do the drawing. Seashimmer, Phicops, Oysteroid, Zenemone, Coral Seeds, Rayz, Indy-Rella, Jelly Legs, Quabog. 13 July 2025 I also copied a couple of elements that David didn't explain in the ocean project, but that can be seen there. 13-16 July 2025 Since I loved the Ocean Project, I checked out some more videos. There is one where he draws Arukas, in a way that inspired me.  I always found this pattern i...