How to draw SYNG

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Today’s lovely new Syng tangle is from New Jersey CZT Shilpi Gupta, and it’s her first on the site. Shilpi is a member of the CZT23 class.

Shilpi introduces herself, explains how she named her tangle and gives some detailed tips about tangling Syng:

I am a medical doctor from India, and currently work as a research scientist in the US. I have an equal passion for art and science.

I have always used dry media for my art, and loved drawing portraits before I discovered the wonderful and meditative world of Zentangle® in 2015. I got certified as a CZT in April 2016 and have been teaching this art form ever since!

Syng is my first pattern that I happened to deconstruct when my 5-year old (who loves Zentangle, too!) wanted me to draw a pattern with circles and diamonds while we were listening to the songs of the movie “Sing” 🙂

For this tangle, I start with some orbs and make an even number of spokes radiating from it (preferably evenly spaced).

Then connect 2 adjacent spokes to form a diamond shape (step 3).

Make v-shapes between 2 adjacent diamonds (step 4) followed by closing the “V”s to form diamond shapes (step 5).

Add auras to the diamond shapes and/or embellish them with other patterns/colors/shading (or all of these) as you please!

I call the initial diamonds (step 3) “fixed diamonds” and the ones you get from v-shapes not attached to the circle (step 5) “floating diamonds” 🙂

Get creative and have fun exploring this pattern!

Syng is fun and easy to tangle and has all kinds of embellishment possibilities which give it a crystal-like appearance — or even of pretty snowflakes (Christmas Cards, anyone?). I think you’ll love tangling this one!

Shilpi illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Syng below where she features it in a lovely duotangle: “I have added inner curves for the fixed diamonds (as one of the filler patterns I use while filling in a Tripoli triangle) and added inner auras to floating diamonds. I have also used tangle Mooka to give some support to my newly deconstructed tangle.”

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