How to draw HUGGY BEAR

The Huggy Bear tangle comes to us from Delaware’s JJ LaBarbera and this is JJ’s fourth pattern on TanglePatterns.

“The name for this one may be a little silly. I named it Huggy Bear because this pattern grew out of my drawing [the official tangle] Huggins incorrectly. I had the lines all done before I stopped and noticed what I had done.“

I found Huggy Bear requires concentration when you’re drawing the initial lines as it’s easy to get them curving in the “wrong” direction (though there are no mistakes in Zentangle®).

This is the first pattern example on TanglePatterns where I used a white pen – in this case  a Sakura Gelly Roll White Pen – to create the dots in the center as JJ suggests. Easy peasy.

JJ illustrates the steps for drawing her Huggy Bear tangle and a cool variation here. Note: The steps image has escaped from JJ’s blog so until she can replace it, here is her original.

Image copyright the artist and used with permission, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Please feel free to refer to the steps images to recreate this tangle in your personal Zentangles and ZIAs, or to link back to this page. However the artist and TanglePatterns.com reserve all rights to these images and they must not be publicly pinned, altered, reproduced or republished. They are for your personal offline reference only. Thank you for respecting these rights.

Check out the tag jjl for more of JJ’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.

Related Links:

• Linda’s List of Official Zentangle® Patterns – the complete list of official patterns (i.e., created by Zentangle® founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas), including those not published online
• More about using white ink for your tangles, or on your black Zentangle tiles, can be found on the top menu bar under TIPS & TOOLS > PENS & MORE > WHITE INK

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