Sometimes you just want to chill out and draw, right? Each video in the 9 Easy Zentangle Patterns for Beginners series is designed to get you drawing fast. Follow along with the videos to learn more than 50 patterns, enjoying the ones that appeal to you the most.
These patterns are easy, but you can modify and embellish them to suit your style. After all, the whole point of tangling is to have fun, relax and express your creativity.
The Tutorials
Patterns are curated loosely into themes. If there’s an easy Zentangle pattern you’d like to see me draw in an upcoming video, let me know with a comment. Sometimes seeing how someone else approaches drawing a pattern can make it easier.
The Video that Started It All
Hi everyone! Today I have a video showing you how to draw 9 easy Zentangle patterns for beginners. As you can see, you don’t need any super fancy art supplies to get started. Just grab a piece of paper and something to write with. (I wouldn’t recommend using a ball-point pen, but it’ll still get the job done!)
In case you’re new to Zentangle art, here are the basics of the Zentangle method: It was created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a meditative form of art that’s accessible to everyone at all levels. It stresses drawing repetitive lines, simple marks, orbs, and other familiar shapes. Each mark is called a “tangle,” and you can combine tangles infinite ways to create “tiles,” or miniature drawings.
The easy art Zentangle patterns I cover in this video are: Footlites, Wist, Roxy, Kuazeela, Squares Squared, Inapod, Wormholes, Embellish, and Narwhal, but there are literally hundreds more to try once you’ve got these down.
If you want to learn more about how the Zentangle method of drawing got its start, I recommend checking out Rick and Maria’s official website.
Zentangle is a very relaxing, meditative form of drawing that got me through some pretty rough days while I underwent chemotherapy and radiation for a brain tumor. Even though I’m done with cancer treatment for now, I found drawing Zentangles to be so calming and therapeutic that I continued with daily practice and weekly videos on YouTube.
So sit back, relax, and let your inner artist follow along as you learn these beginner patterns. If you want to see more, subscribe to my YouTube channel. And don’t miss my suggestions for the best Zentangle pens.
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Finding your site made my day! Grateful to you for sharing your gifts. Thank you, Emily
Thanks for stopping by!
I am quite new to zentangle. I started through recommended mental health tools. I absolutely love it. This form of creative space helps me Stat grounded absolutely definitely calms my anxiousness. Thank you for y0ur great beginner videos. They are all very good.
Newt To Tangle. .Katie Roberts
That’s wonderful! Happy tangling, Katie!
I am new as of tonight……
Looking for stress reduction…..a calming technique…..I am a senior…82
Hope I get connected to this site, as I need an outlet….i love art in general…..yet it seems this form of art, just requires me to be present…
Thank yu in advance, Emily
I’m glad you’re giving it a try and hope you find it’s as calming as I do. Thanks for stopping by and happy tangling!
what “hardness” of pencil do you like to use for shading?
The softer the better, but I’ll use a regular ol’ 2B if it’s in reach.
I am using this website for a class project and I am doing zentangle name art.
same
I am starting this with seniors in a retirement home tomorrow and advice
I am so happy to have come across Zentangles. I am 87 years old. In the past year I have become very interested in doodle art but this is so much more. I live in a retirement center and this gives me a chance to meet new friends with a common interest. We meet once a week to share our latest creations.
That’s wonderful!
You need to change your light source please so we can better see your work without the shadow. Great job! Thank you