Day Three: ok, I was sort of hungry when I played with this pattern. It looks pretty simple and random, and it is. But there was a sort of rule I was trying to stick to: start with a nobble, squiggle, end with a nobble. Draw your next nobble by the one you’ve just finished and squiggle again. Ideally, if you stick to the rule, your nobbles should always be in pairs. I clearly didn’t manage to stick to the rules… must have been the hunger 😉
Tomorrow’s midway tangle pattern: ‘Leggo’.
Day Two: simply zig zag lines. Sort of similar to ‘Jump’ but this one doesn’t have the verticals. Lots of different ways to shade this one 🙂
Tomorrow’s tangle goodness: ‘Noodlz’.
Day One: a touch of ancient Greece for this one. I started playing with triangles as I don’t think there are enough triangle-based tangle patterns out there… filling in the gaps led me to this geometric pattern.
Tomorrow’s tangle pattern: ‘Zigazigah’.
Hi all my lovely blog followers – just a little bit of advance notice that I have another week of daily tangle goodness to share with you all, starting tomorrow, Monday 4th July, posting each day at 1700 hrs GMT. Check back each day for another brand new tangle 🙂
Dear readers – as promised, here are teaser pics of my subscriber draw prize book in recognition of 10,000 views of my blog 🙂
The cover is hand-tangled with my own designs [it’s taken ages!] and will be personalised with the initial letter of the winner’s choosing before being sealed with a gloss varnish finish. It’s a hand-crafted book [which took ages too!], with hard cover and sewn and glued spine.
Inside are colour copies of all my tangle patterns from January to June 2011, and the eight tags will contain hand-drawn tangles, with tips on shading and may be even a unique and unpublished, exclusive tangle pattern.
Remember, to be entered in the draw, subscribe to my blog using the ‘Sign me up!’ button in the side bar on my blog home page by midnight on 30th June 2011. Subscribing to comments or any other page will not enter you into the draw. The winner will be drawn at random from my subscriber list and I’ll contact you by email if you are that lucky person. Good luck 🙂
Dear readers – in anticipation of my 10,000th view of this ‘ere blog, I’m in the middle of constructing a one-of-a-kind handcrafted book of my tangle patterns, complete with hand drawn tangles and tips. Pictures to follow, but I wanted to give you all the heads-up. This will be given away to one of my blog subscribers, drawn at random from my subscribers list as it stands at midnight on 30th June. So keep an eye out for the prize pics, and if you haven’t become an email subscriber, then click the ‘sign me up’ button at the top of the right hand sidebar. Good luck!
Day Seven: it’s like ’24’ all over again… This time it’s a variation on the start point of ‘Nave’, but then goes off into curves rather than points and we find ourselves with victorian-esque shaped tiles.
There… I hope you’ve enjoyed the anticipation and guessing from the names what the patterns might be. Who knows, I might just do this again. In the meantime, I’ll be publishing all seven patterns to my Flickr site and the Freehand Doodle Patterns group.
Day Six: Nave. This pattern seems to crop up in stone work all over the place. I’ve seen it on the bridge buttresses on the way into Leicester city centre going over the River Soar… I’ve seen it in the stonework of Church of the Martyrs on Westcotes Drive in Leicester. And I’m sure you’ve seen it in gothic architecture near you! Now you can include it in your tangles 🙂
And the final installment tomorrow is: ‘Ceramix’.
Day Five: the Revenge of the Reincarnated Returning Curly Braces. Yes, they’re back. Not content with the franchise reaching four patterns, the curly brackets have done it again bringing the world a fifth outing. They snuck into a doodle that started out in a completely different way, but then was gruesomely taken over by the curly braces barging their way into my consciousness… Invidious things, curly brackets. Beware 😉
Tomorrow’s penultimate daily dose of tangle goodness: ‘Nave’.
Day Four of my daily tangle pattern week: and I’ve probably watched one too many episodes of ‘Bargain Hunt’… [For the non-UK residents, it’s an antique-buying and selling competition on day time TV, hosted by antiques expert Tim Wonnacott who is rarely seen without a dickie-bow]. This pattern also cries out for colour, but black and white patterns work just as well for me. The six I’ve shown are by no means an exhaustive list – try some of the other tangle patterns in each bow shape…
Tomorrow’s tangle pattern: oh yes, there’s another one – curly braces make a fifth comeback in the sequel of all sequels ‘CB5’.