Day Four: based on Mehndi designs, this tangle pattern comes in two variations. The trick to this is to have one of the chain loops drawn within the vertical bar when crossing over the top. Lots of opportunity to shade this one to help give more depth to your pattern.
Tomorrow’s loveliness: ‘Flower Whorl’.
Day Three: based on Mehndi designs, this pattern reminded me of the cowrie shells I came across when living in the Middle East as a child.
Tomorrow’s bit of tangle heaven: ‘Swizzlestik’.
Day Two: another daisy-based tangle pattern, in part inspired from Mehndi designs and in part original doodle.
Tomorrow’s dose of tangle delights: ‘Cowrie’.
Well dear reader, welcome to another week of daily tangle goodness 🙂
This first pattern is direct from a childhood memory of a small ball bearing in a capsule simulating a Mexican jumping bean. Just one rule with this – make sure the ‘ball’ is consistently placed by gravity, only horizontal capsules can have the ball placed anywhere. Fill in the gaps with movement lines.
Tomorrow’s pattern: ‘Ovate’.
Day Seven: I’ve saved my favourite until last… Rokpool developed from a sketch twice the size, but I couldn’t tell what fit into the gap between what became mussels neatly lined up. So I shrank the sketch down, and added the ripples. I love the pattern that resulted, and it reminds me of woodcut type patterns.
There you go, another week of daily patterns is over. I hope you enjoyed them!
Day Six: what happens when you mix zigzags with curvaceous lines? Fans and peacock tails! Or at least that’s what happened when I tried it late one evening… I think the shading makes this one zing.
Tomorrow’s final dose of daily tangle goodness: ‘Rokpool’.
Day Five: playing with triangles again today resulted in something akin to layered baubles. Or odd shaped onions. Or may be several cyclopses laying on their sides. Or strange flying saucers. Any how, it’s today’s offering for tangling fun 🙂
Tomorrow’s penultimate dose of tangling instruction: ‘Fantails’.
Day Four: almost as painful as treading on one of those Danish bricks that inspired this simple pattern. My wrist started aching after drawing three panels of tiny circles! The rule for this one is to stick to the traditional brick sizes when drawing in your grid in step two. Those that like to tangle in colour will like the shading opportunities presented here.
Tomorrow’s tangle loveliness: ‘Bawballs’.
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’.