Ah, another Diva Challenge...the one-stop shop for anyone's Zentangle needs ^_^ I ended up not participating in last week's mostly because my first few attempts were such awful catastrophes I just needed to stop risking an aneurysm over it ^_^ I can't do all straight lines...I just have to fit in some curves somewhere. Or everywhere.
Anyways, this challenge was yet another fun one...All Boxed Up is a wonderful tangle, and shading just makes it so much more amazing.
Tangles used: All Boxed Up
Tangles used: All Boxed Up, Prestwood, Striping, Opus, Mooka, Pokeroot
I did the bottom one with a fountain pen, as I did with last week's Tangleation Vocation challenge.
Tangles used: Phicops, Meringue
And speaking of the challenge, this week your tangle to play with is Veezely by the incredibly talented Sandy Hunter. Enjoy and be inspired! ^_^
P.S. I just have to say...the object of this challenge is to create a tangleation of the focus tangle, not just use it. All the submissions are lovely and I appreciate all of them, of course, but they're not all true to my original intents. Sorry if I'm coming off as rude or something, I'm just saying. Thanks ^_^
School's finally out! Hurrah, hurrah! Hopefully this means more posts with more art, but if it doesn't...well, there'll still be more art. It'll just be cluttering my room instead of my room AND my computer ^_^
This (last?) week's challenge was a fun one...I already liked Prestwood, but now I appreciate it even more ^_^ I came up with a fairly simple arrangement of 3 tangleations along with the original. And its name, because I needed to fill up that corner ^_^
Tangles: Prestwood
Moving on, this week's tangle to play with is Phicops, by "B-rad" Harms, who I'm sure you all know ^_^ Enjoy and be inspired! ^_^
I must admit...I really, really don't enjoy working with white-on-black. I'm not sure why, although I have a strong suspicion it's because of the lesser control the thicker pen affords me and the fact that my "white" pen more often writes in pale grey. Then there's the shading (er, highlighting)...don't even start on the shading. I don't like it. I don't like it one bit. ^_^
Tangles used: Mooka, Echoism, Florz, Fescu
On a much more positive note...I love Fescu. LoveloveloveloveLOVE it. It's an amazing way to fill extra space if you need to...though I think I overdid it here ^_^ And that shading (er, highlighting) is just...painful. Bleh.
I recently found out about Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge through her wonderful entry in my last Tangleation Vocation challenge...yet another reason to look forward to Mondays. And since today was the last Monday for school this year, I can finally fully look forward to them instead of kind of being on the fence ^_^ Challenges are so useful for me...having a basis for my tangling makes the starting much easier. So, without further ado, I present my flower tile...uh...not really tile...ZIA...thing. Yeah. ^_^
Tangles used: Opus, Striping
Also, remember the "base" tangles I posted quite a while back? Well, I finished the Mooka one. The Pubfleur one is on my long, long list of stalled projects. *Sigh*
I just realized I pretty much just post here on Sundays and Mondays. Eek, that's not very often...hopefully I'll be able to change that once school ends. Of course, I have an academic tournament right after that, and a month-long vacation to California after that, and an over-the-summer assignment for English II (??!!?!?!!) to boot, so...maybe not. :(
On a completely different (and much more cheerful ^_^) note, I've recently been obsessed with the YouTube channel of the incredibly talented Peter Draws, and have been doing a lot more non-Zentangle abstract art than normal as a result. And yes, I realize that emulating others isn't exactly a great way to exercise creativity, but it's just so darn fun ^_^
And now for the 3rd note in this post - the one you actually came here for! *cue cutout angels with trumpets coming in from either side of the screen with a flurry of confetti* Static proved to be fun to play around with, and I ended up with a fairly simple final result done on my Strathmore Grey-Toned journal.
Tangles used: You know...
I finally used both highlights and shadows on mid-toned paper! ^_^ *cue repeat of aforementioned angels, trumpets, and confetti*
Now, onto the fourth note(Or is it the 3-and-a-half-rd? Also, I realize this is taking that idiom way too literally, but whatever. Anything for the sake of comedy, right?). Your Tangleation Vocation this week is the amazing Margaret Bremner's tangle Prestwood. I have a grand total of 0 ideas for this at the moment, so let's get thinking! Enjoy and be inspired! ^_^
Woo, another Diva Challenge! I miiiight have broken the rules here with that little touch of Fescu, but let's call that a flourish instead of a tangle, shall we?
Tangles used: Bunzo, Dex, Fescu...wait, no, not Fescu. That's totally not Fescu. Pay no attention to that Fescu. ^_^
It was a bit of a challenge figuring out how to get these two to play together...I did a couple rough things at school (I promise I'm a good student) but it wasn't until I actually sat down in front of my journal with Micron in hand that inspiration struck. ^_^
Now. Moving on. I am so, so, so sorry about the Tangleation Vocation challenge being late, but weather down here really sucks and tangling has unfortunately not been on my list of priorities (things that were: freaking out, playing on my computer as much as possible so that I could make up for lost time when the power was out, and freaking out even more. I know, I'm pathetic, I'm sorry. ^_^). I managed to whip up some decent results for Mooka, though.
Tangles used: Mooka, Purk
Not really the best, but it certainly shows off some nice variations - a spiky Mooka, a "free" Mooka, and a spiky, rounded Mooka (oxymoron much?).
Tangles used: Mooka, Nvelope, Fescu
I like this one a lot more. The black and white is balanced (for once!) and the composition is nice. I also really, really need to stop being too lazy to shade things...but we all know that's not gonna happen for a while ^_^
This week's challenge is to play around with Static, a very simple official tangle. I don't think it has any instructions online, but it doesn't really need any - it's just a single zigzag line, aura-ed over and over until you've filled the section. I also think all 3 people who've participated in this (thank you all!! ^_^) are CZTs, so you should all know it anyways. Enjoy and be inspired! ^_^
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