This is a quote from Alonka-quiet_joy Original post Zentangle, Doodling and Zendoodling drawing techniques.

Getting to know drawing techniques like Zentangle, Doodling and Zendoodling

I really liked the drawing technique, it is especially good (in my opinion) for those creative natures who want to express themselves in drawing, but do not have classical skills.

Here, in order to achieve success, you need a lot of imagination and creativity and a minimum of drawing technique, although spatial imagination is still useful to us. The pictures are unusual and exciting, they can be looked at and studied for a long time.

Unfortunately, I did not find information about these techniques in Russian, so I translated from English sources (do not judge strictly my translation).

IN

A Zentangle is a small piece of art made with a fine-tip pen and graphite to highlight light and shadow. It is compiled in a certain order. Take a square of watercolor paper and place 4 dots in each corner with a pencil about half an inch from the border of the sheet. Connect these points with a pencil border, which can be either straight or curved (irregular). Inside the resulting frame, ‘lines’ are drawn with a pencil, the so-called crazy lines. This divides the drawing area into sectors B of various sizes and specific profiles. Take a fine fountain pen and fill the form with a variety of repeating patterns. When you’ve filled in the gaps, the pencil lines are erased and then shading is added to give it a B Zentangle shape.

If your drawing doesn’t follow these guidelines, then it’s not a Zentangle. Zentangle is an abstract pattern and can be viewed from any angle. If it has a recognizable image, such as a face or eyes or an animal, it is not a Zentangle. However, it may well be a stylized Zentangle or ZIA.

 

Doodle (translated as doodle) is a focused drawing made while the person’s attention is occupied with something else. Doodles are simple drawings that may have specific representational meanings or may simply be abstract shapes.

Stereotypical drawing examples are found in the school notebook, often in the margins, done by students when they daydream or lose interest during class. Other common examples of drawing are done during long telephone conversations, with pen and paper handy.

Popular views include cartoon versions, images of teachers or schoolmates, famous television or comic characters, fictional creatures, landscapes, geometric shapes and patterns, textures, banners with legends, and animation scenes made to sequence on different pages of a book or notebook.

IN

IN

IN

Zendoodling is a hybrid of Zentangle art and B Doodling. Zendoodles are often free-form and have an abstract look, sometimes with splashes of color.

It’s not strictly called Zentangling because it doesn’t use the ‘string’ method, nor does it require B to be black and white. IN
Zendoodles are created using black ink on any type of colored background, not necessarily white paper. The use of watercolors, pencils, chalk, markers, etc. is also allowed. at your discretion.

IN