Zen Doodling

Doodling isn't necessarily a mindless pursuit. There's hidden discipline, order, and joy behind artful scribbles. Idiot's Guides: Zen Doodling gives readers beautiful, full-color instruction and all they need to start using ordered, repeated "tangle" designs that are great creative expressions and works of art unto themselves. The book includes step-by-step instructions for drawing more than 20 doodle forms and patterns.

Bring on the doodles! Zen doodle, that is! In Zen Doodle: Tons of Tangles, you'll find gorgeous images of the best doodle art from around the world. This collection of drawings and painted canvases from dozens of contributors features thousands of tangle patterns and doodle designs to inspire you to doodle anything and everything. Create a mythical, doodled beast or abstract work of art. Draw an inspirational tangled card for a friend or add doodled intrigue to your art journal with patterned shapes. Zen Doodle provides you with the first steps toward creating unique tangled art, including traditional tiles, letterforms, Zendalas, landscapes, four-tile ensembles, paper quilts and more! Inside you'll find: • More than 100 pieces of Zen doodled art from 42 artists. • Step-by-step instruction to help you begin your own Zen doodles. • Four chapters of doodle inspiration: Abstracts, Shapes & Objects, Animals & Beasts, and Friendship & Love. Isn't it time you take your tangles to the next level?

One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises. Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing, by using repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes. Each mark is called a "tangle," and you combine various tangles into patterns to create "tiles" or small square drawings. This step-by-step book is divided into 6 chapters, each with 7 daily exercises. Each exercise includes new tangles to draw in sketchbooks, teaches daily tile design, and offers tips on related art principles, and contains an inspirational "ZIA" (Zentangle Inspired Art) project on a tile that incorporates patterns, art principals, and new techniques.

Learn the philosophy and the art of Doodle Arts with this guide to creating your first impressive Doodle Art design. Inside, you'll discover the principles of Doodle Art art, the basics of creating a Doodle Art design, how to create your own pattern, where to draw motivation and inspiration from, quick tips and tricks, and so much more!

Bring on the tangles! In Zen Doodle Oodles of Doodles, you'll find even more stunning doodle art from all around the world. With more than 100 original designs, you're sure to love these gorgeous patterns brimming with the latest tangles and techniques that will inspire your doodling dreams. Then take your tangles to the next level with step-by-step instructions for creating everything from traditional doodle tiles to Zendala, to your favorite tangled art; it's all here! You'll also discover the stories behind each creative tangle and immerse yourself into a world of doodle intrigue. So what are you waiting for? It's time to get your doodle on! • 100+ Zen doodled art pieces from 48 artists • Step-by-step instructions to help you on your doodling journey • Featuring a special Spotlight Artist section where you can get up close and personal with some of your favorite Zen doodle artists

In this one-of-a-kind mindfulness workbook for teens, New York Times-bestselling artist and author of Start Where You Are, Meera Lee Patel, presents an entire year of calming, stress-relieving zentangle-style drawings for young, first-time zen drawers to help relax and enjoy a truly mindful moment of creativity. Few activities are as spiritually satisfying as the art of the meditative “tangle” drawing. With this book, teens can find a quiet moment to craft an intaglio of intricate, mandala-like drawings that will calm and bring on a peaceful state that clears the mind and facilitates creativity and relaxation. Offering a different hand-illustrated prompt for each day of the year, Daily Zen Doodles inspires kids to lose themselves in the contemplative act of sketching beautifully repeating patterns and abstract designs. Whether it’s the outline of a nautilus shell, the petals of a lotus blossom, or the spokes of the Buddhist wheel, the mindfulness-inspiring ideas in this book foster focus and help unlock that budding inner artist. Accompanied by apt quotes from spiritual leaders and famed philosophers to provide you with an added spark of inspiration, each drawing prompt is an invitation to an improved mindset and elevated state of inner peace.

+ FREE BOOK Buy this book and get BOOK for FREE Zen Doodle is the structured mode of drawing, which is more or less a way of doodling. You cannot doodle mindlessly in Zen Doodle; you have to pay attention to the symbols you are drawing and you have to structure them in a well-composed manner. Zen Doodle consists of a chain of recurring strokes, dots, and curves; drawn in a box. When you are able to create your own patterns, you can use them in various designs or shapes. You can be as much creative as you want with Zen Doodle. Zen Doodle is much more deliberate and focused, but still it allows the Zen Doodler to have the creativity to make free- forms of patterns, shapes, lines, and shading. Anecdotal reports and preliminary studies seem to support the thought that Zen Doodle is a meditative form of art that actually induces calmness and relaxation. It also has a positive impact on mood, stress reduction, and self-control. It implies that if someone is suffering from mental stress, over-thinking, or any such mental condition where they need the help of a support system, Zen Doodle can come to rescue. Even if you are slightly worried about your life, you can take the help of Zen Doodle to put your life back in place. Zen Doodle cannot solve your problems, but it can give you the right frame of mind to deal with them. Zen Doodling is a great method of expressing yourself. Even if it is underestimated as a form of art, you can doubtlessly resort to it to develop your skills. Apart from curing your mental condition, it can help you refine your drawing skills. You can add your Zen Doodles to your portfolio of designs; it will add great value to it. You can add expressive illustrations to your designs to make them leave more impact. There is no limit to create illustrations with Zen Doodle. You can even transform the walls of your room into a work of art. You never know you might start creating masterpieces in the four walls of your house only! Here is a preview of what you'll learn: -20+New Zen Doodle Patterns -How to Zen Doodle Bird -How to Zen Doodle Cat -How to Zen Doodle -Cube Enjoy reading and practicing, and do not forget to receive your FREE BONUS BOOK All the instructions you will find at the end of the book. Good luck!

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