If it’s Monday, it must be a super easy tangle!
Sporez is Ohio tangler Joan Stark’s third tangle on the site and it’s a fun one to tangle and to embellish. And to sprinkle around your Zentangle® tile.
Joan writes,
This tangle looked like a plant spore to me.. hence the name.
It’s super easy and you could keep going beyond the 2 rounds of cones.
Joan’s steps demonstrate a 5-sided Sporez element but for my example I went for a 7-sided version.
In this case, to control the symmetry of the 7-sided shape of Step 1 and get a pleasing result, after some experimentation I reversed some Steps. I began with the center strokes of Step 5, creating a 7-legged “asterisk”.
“An asterisk (*); from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek asteriskos, (“little star”) is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star. … One hypothesis to the origin of the asterisk is that it stems from the five thousand year old Sumerian character dingir“. ~ Wikipedia
Five thousand years old, wow. Who knew.
From there you can nicely drape the C-strokes on the tips of that framework. I like the tiny strokes Joan adds in Step 6 to give the Sporez some texture. A touch of shading adds a convex appearance to the cone shapes.
What’s useful about free-form tangles like this is you can play with their size, shape and position in your Zentangles to create visual interest.
Joan illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Sporez below and shows variations by altering the shape in Step 1 to change the number of sides from 3-sided through 7-sided.
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January 15, 2018 | 
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I like Sporez sooo much because Step 1 shows that the starting shape doesn’t have to be a perfect geometrical shape. While practicing this tangle, I’m think that it also works by starting with any number of lines radiating away from one another. For example, Start a 5-point tangle with the stick figure of a person. Step 2, draw an interesting curve to connect one arm to the head. Step 3: Continuing in the same direction, connect the head to the other arm, the arm to a leg, that leg to the next leg, leg to the second arm and arm to the head. To finish the tangle, follow steps 2 – 4 in the published step-out.
Thanks Linda, I think that’s the same conclusion I described in the post after my experiments with Sporez. But no body parts are involved 😉
BTW – Starting with a straight line gives some interesting variations, too.
Liking this one. Will be fun to try some different variations.
Glad to hear that others are enjoying this tangle with all its variations. It is a very forgiving tangle.
Yes Joan, me too like your pattern, uncomplicated, nice and with many possibilites to variate. Thank you for sharing.