One Zentangle A Day: A 6-Week Course in Creative Drawing for Relaxation, Inspiration, and Fun (One A Day) *[PDF]
Take your doodles to a whole new level with this best-selling and preeminent guidebook to the meditative art of the Zentangle, featuring the incredibly beautiful and inspiring artwork of author Beckah Krahula. This step-by-step book is divided into six chapters, each with seven daily exercises. The Zentangle method was created 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. Each of the six chapters explores a different aspect of Zentangle: Basics and EnhancementsTangles and Value PatternsGeometric and Organic PatternsUnderstanding and Using ColorDefining and Using StyleCreating the Rest of Your Zentangle JourneyEach exercise includes new tangles to draw in sketchbooks or on Tiepolo (an Italian-made paper), teaches daily tile design, 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. Drawing Zentangles is a relaxing and replenishing diversion that can be enjoyed by people of all ages and skill levels. In addition to its soothing benefits, a Zentangle practice can also help with self-image, phobias, addictions, pain management, conflict resolution, and coping with grief. Step away from the daily hustle and untangle with a Zentangle. Read more
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Why Must Read One Zentangle A Day: A 6-Week Course in Creative Drawing for Relaxation, Inspiration, and Fun (One A Day)?
This book does a good job of teaching this system and its constraints. For the most part, the examples of how to draw the tangles are straightforward. Occasionally, the explanations become bogged down in the jargon of zentangles, which is just a fancy form of doodling, as far as I can tell. But for someone like me, who has no art background, this book is a pretty good introduction to techniques for creating 3-d illusion and the like. Another reviewer bemoans the exhaustive list of supplies, but I decided to begin with the basics and add supplies as I felt the need. My starter kit consists of sketchpad, tiles (mine are not the official tiles, but they are fine), 2H and 2B pencils, and Pigma micron 05, 01, and 005 pens. I had erasers and sharpener around. At some point I may get the official tiles or black tiles and white markers, but I couldn't see buying all that stuff when I hadn't even tried doing this before.
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