How to draw ING

ING is a new Zentangle-original tangle created by Zentangle®’s own Molly Hollibaugh, CZT and Product Manager, and introduced at the two most recent CZT seminars (14 & 15) in June 2014.

Molly was in Miami, Florida to participate in a marathon and spotted a metal sculpture on the campus of the Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation ING.

“ING is an abbreviation for Internationale Nederlanden Groep (English: International Netherlands Group).” In 2013, ING spun off its ING U.S. subsidiary and rebranded it as Voya Financial. No more cute little lion.

The helix-based sculpture Molly saw begged to be deconstructed so it could be drawn as a tangle, and “After a lot of exploration and experimentation“, she came up with the four simple steps for drawing ING.

ING is a tangle that’s simply full of possibilities. It can be drawn very narrow, or very wide and then filled with all kinds of embellishments including other tangles. As Maria writes with the instructions, like the Zentangle-original tangle Tripoli, ING is “a basis for MANY tangleations“.

Maria illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing ING here in the latest Zentangle newsletter that includes a variety of wonderful Zentangles by Molly, Maria and Rick demonstrating different ways of playing with this fun new tangle. You’ll also see a photo of the metal sculpture that inspired Molly.

UPDATE September 14, 2014 – CZT Margaret Bremner demonstrates how to tangle a curvy version of ING – Curv-ING.

UPDATE December 7, 2018 – Project Pack #04. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition series, in this Day 5 video at 06:02 Maria demonstrates how to tangle Molly’s ING.

Maria suggests an easy way to keep your stroke sequence “straight” is to say to yourself “point to line, point to line” and before you know it, you’ve ING‘d.

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UPDATE September 24, 2020 – Project Pack #11. As part of the Fee-PHI-Fo-Fun! project pack, Molly and Martha use ING as a reticulum on the new Phi tiles and each fills their tile with a different fragment.

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UPDATE February 3, 2021 – Molly writes a blog post today describing ING‘s TangleRootZ.

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UPDATE April 01, 2021 – Project Pack #13. As part of the Layers & Transitions project pack, Rick tangles ING using a Clear Glaze Jelly Roll pen on a white Phi tile and adds Crescent Moon with a Micron 01..

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