How to draw ROBLYN

Greetings my tangling friends! Welcome back.

Roblyn, our easy Monday tangle, is from Minnesota tangler Mollie Zauner and it’s her first on the site.

Mollie introduces herself and her tangle,

I am a civil engineer living with my dachshund in Minnesota. As a child, I loved anything to do with art, especially drawing. In 2014, I started to see examples of Zentangle® and found it intriguing, so I ordered a kit from Zentangle.com and starting learning about the method and drawing my own tiles. With everything going on in life, I didn’t have much time to spend on it until this past year when I signed up for the mosaic app and finally found other people who liked to tangle. Now I am part of a group of midwestern tanglers that meets with a CZT every week to work on tangles and other related creative ideas. I am not a CZT yet, but hope to become one soon.

My profession is all about precision and even a tiny mistake can be catastrophic in certain circumstances, so the “no mistakes” part of Zentangle was difficult to accept at first. Of course, this concept caused me to see what I was drawing as failure. Once I heard Maria Thomas say that “mistakes are just opportunities for further creativity,” I felt much better about it and Zentangle has helped me to think critically and explore and use more of those opportunities.

My other hobbies include beadwork, wire and metalwork, making chain maille, crochet, and reading. I love having the chance to be creative and am constantly learning new ways to do so.

I love patterns! I am always looking for ways to fill space in my tangles and I like to play and experiment with new patterns. This pattern is a result of one of those play times.

[BTW, and coincidentally, in case you missed it recently we had a brief introduction to the craft of chain maille here.]

Simple is best! Repeating myself from here, Roblyn “sticks to the Zentangle® philosophy of just 2 or 3 simple lines repeated continuously. More complex patterns require thinking about how to build them and not readily allowing one to get into the ‘unthinking’ rhythm of a Zentangle experience. Simple tangles are the Zen of Zentangle.”

Roblyn is an easy tangle to use in a section of your Zentangle tile or even as a frame around it. For my example I added solid ink fills in a regular pattern but it would be fun to explore random fills, ZIA color, and changing up the scale of the orbs too.

Mollie illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Roblyn below. “In order to make the steps easy to follow, I made an extra effort to make each part of the pattern as consistent as possible, but in the sample I just used it as I would on any tile. Along with Roblyn, the sample includes Tut, Shattuck, and Crazy ‘Nzeppel.”

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