Marziottangle: About Chaos

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

About Chaos

This is a kind of tutorial. Or not.

Probably if you are into art you know it better, and myself I never stumbled in a tutorial about chaos.

Zentangle is very often about it.

When you want to fill a space, and want to prevent that your patterns look like a grid, you have to follow chaos.

Put down elements (dots, orbs, lines or small tangles) randomly in the space you want to fill and then work around every element a bit.

And repeat. And repeat.

In the end I did not fill all the space but I think that the objective of not ending up drawing everything like a grid was already obtained.

Probably this would work also for stains of any kind, animal fur patterns, rocks, and everything.
Chaos is everywhere.

I still have to figure out if I like the repetition of patterns or the chaos in Zentangle.

But probably what I like is bringing chaos in order, like working with deformed grids, and bringing order in chaos, like deconstructing any pattern that comes out of my pen that does not look like anything I have been drawing yet.

5 August 2025

I think I should also put some of my tangles where I used the chaos. I have also been playing with some patterns of mine that I did not add to the blog yet. I will add them in the next days!
So far I have been waiting to publish to have submitted the patterns to tanglepatterns, but since I have been said to slow down and send only my favourite patterns... I will at least publish here. :D

Here, since I did not like the grid version of Den Long, I mixed it with random Printemps.