How to draw HEARTSTRINGS

Here’s our last Valentine-related tangle, Heartstrings by Helen Williams.

It may look complicated but Heartstrings is very easy to draw, one stroke at a time. The key here is to take your time and make deliberate strokes.

Shading makes all the difference to this tangle. By adding just a touch of shading Heartstrings becomes puffy and very dimensional, and the shading is so much fun. I often have enough graphite left on my blender (tortillion) to do the job.

I also played with this variation where I drew the heart shapes “upside down” in every other column and that looks interesting too.

Helen illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Heartstrings here on her blog.

Update 11/11/2015: Helen posted an “inside out” variation of Heartstrings here.

Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all! May everyone’s lives be filled with sweetness and love.

Check out the tag helenw for more of Helen’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.

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