How to draw ESSIES

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Today we explore Australian CZT Sue Bailey’s elegant and pretty Essies tangle. This is Sue’s sixth tangle on the site, earlier this year we explored her fun Pippy tangle.

Essies is an easy tangleation of the Zentangle®-original Cadent. “Tangleations are the result of altering a tangle, or mixing one or more basic tangles together in different proportions.” We could say it also shares DNA with CZT Damy Teng’s Q-Mi.

Sue writes,

This came about when I was having a play with Pea-nuckle deconstructed by Molly Hollibaugh from ZHQ.

I wondered what other shapes you could make with a classic S and started playing with them butted up against each other at right angles. This quickly turned into what you can see in the step out. I named it “Essies” because it uses a classic S shape and a flattened C shape.

Basic Essies is really easy to draw and it makes a really interesting grid / reticula.

I’m really excited that Essies plays well with Mrth too. I love Mrth but haven’t really used it with any tangle other than Pangea. This tile was fun!

Cadent has inspired many tangleations and the letter S has also inspired some tangle relatives, including CZT® Susan Reading’s Es-Sizz. and CZT Michelle Dugdale’s Essalot. When you do a site search using the term “S-shape” (including the quotation marks), you’ll find several more.

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Sue illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Essies below, “I have included some of the tangleations I have discovered so far on the right. They are all fairly simple but the ones with the single tethered aura and the extra c shape do require some focus. I recommend rotating your tile with each stroke paradox-fashion otherwise it’s easy to get confused where you are up to. In the steps when I refer to squares I am referring to each “blob” element (like a square in a grid tangle).”

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