How to draw YUM YUM

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Today’s cool Yum Yum tangle is from Spanish CZT Tomàs Padrós. Tomàs has lots of great tangles on the site and he promised to send me more, so stay tuned (no pressure Tomàs 😉 ) !

He writes,

Yum Yum is a tangle of the Ogee grid type. I designed Yum Yum a long time ago. It was spring 2016. I had just discovered Zentangle® as well as tanglepatterns.com and I had a great time with it.

I was already fascinated with Kathy Redmond’s A-Fog when I soon discovered Helen Williams’ Leaflet. I found a link to her website and a video with a crazy variation that I fell in love with and decided to design my own Ogee grid tangle.

It occurred to me to create a zig zag in the center of each bulb and join its vertices with the closest ends. I thought the whole effect was very decorative.

Below the deconstruction I show my first drawing of Yum Yum as it is in my first sketchbook. I was amused to see that at the time I called it A-Fog variation (which also has a central zigzag) co-authored with Kathy Redmond, which indicates to what extent I considered it a source of inspiration (I didn’t remember this).

However, my proposal seemed to have its own personality and I was amused that it looked like a carnivorous plant, so I ended up calling it Yum Yum.

In the color tile I combine it, of course, with Leaflet, my other reference, and also with Diane Thai’s Lantern Pho. And I played to open the “mouth” to some Yum Yum as a joke.

Finally, I show another tile in a freer arrangement (influenced by Helen Williams). I also add some tips (see below) that I hope can be inspiring.

Be careful when drawing Yum Yum if you don’t want to lose a finger.

I’ll be the first to admit that ogee grids are a challenge for me as I can easily get the S curves a little confused and my thumb always has a hiccup to offer. After several practice runs and noting his tips below as well as reviewing my own tips for creating ogee grids from the past, I achieved an example I’m okay with but more practice is definitely in the works. In addition to enjoying his sense of humor, I’m sure you’ll enjoy exploring Tomàs’s fun Yum Yum tangle.

Tomàs illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Yum Yum below along with “my first drawing of Yum Yum as it is in my first sketchbook“.

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In this illustration he gives us those tips for tangling Yum Yum.

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