Curls, dashes, spirals. How to draw zentangle and doodling?

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Almost every person tried his hand at the technique of doodling, when he involuntarily drew curls and scribbles while talking on the phone or thinking at work, at school or college. In short, doodling is simply filling a sheet of paper with whatever comes to mind: circles, triangles, spirals. It is impossible to say for sure how to draw a really beautiful dudling. This is done only by inspiration, impulsively.

Zentangle has some rules and differences. This is a drawing technique that calms the nerves, helps to focus only on creativity, therefore it belongs to meditative drawing.

Zentangle

Appeared quite recently, only about 10 years ago. It was invented by a wonderful couple - Maria and Rick, an artist and a meditator. They noticed the unusual effect that drawing certain elements while working had on Maria. Rick and his wife began to pay more and moreattention to small details, developed the technique itself and soon patented the technique. It was from this moment that the history of the zentangle began.

Even if there is no experience at all, this graphic option is perfect for a novice artist. It’s not enough just to arm yourself with a piece of paper and a pen. How to draw for maximum fun?

Basic rules of the classic zentangle

These include:

1. Liners, pens, felt-tip pens of different thicknesses, black and its shades are suitable for drawing.
2. A square of white paper 9 x 9 cm. To be more precise, even 8.9 x 8.9 cm. But this is completely for perfectionists.
3. Each line can only be drawn once. Even if she lay unevenly, then the line is not corrected. There is a philosophical approach to any inaccuracies and mistakes: how it happened, how it happened. Fate.
4. Calm atmosphere. You need to focus only on the graphics, without being distracted by extraneous sounds and events. Any nice background music will do.

Dudling

Here, everything is much simpler. Even the name of this technique is derived from the English word doodle - “meaningless drawing”, “mechanically draw”.

So there are absolutely no rules for doodling. It's just any image that we create by thinking hard or trying to paint a pen. You can use any color scheme, fill any shape and space with patterns. The most common elements of doodling are dots, circles, lines and spirals.

How to draw dudling correctly? The most important rule is to relaxand transfer to paper any patterns and objects that come to mind.

The most interesting thing is that both of these techniques are developing and are just gaining popularity in Russia, so every day they find more and more fans.

You should definitely try yourself in doodling or zentangle, if you want to draw, transfer emotions and mood to paper, but you can’t get a traditional drawing.

This is a creative and easy activity that anyone can enjoy.