How to draw 3D-ROOM

Today’s cool 3D-Room tangle comes from CZT Damy Teng. She has almost 20 tangles on the site as well as a couple of Strings for us all to enjoy.

Damy writes this tangle resembles the corner of a room so that’s how she named her tangle 3D-Room.

3D-Room is quite absorbing to draw and it’s very versatile. Changing it just slightly creates a totally different 3D look and for my example I chose one of the variations from the basic tangle Damy includes below in her tiles.

By using the same orientation of the fills, the pattern has its own internal rhythm. In this case I used a black fill followed clockwise by no fill, then graphite, then dots and used this same order in each grid square. I love these geometric tangles, a few straight strokes with many different looks.

Damy illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing 3D-Room and features it in a tile with several Zentangle®-original tangles. The Zentangle-originals are often referred to as the “official” tangles and you can find them all on the ZENTANGLES > LINDA’S LIST OF OFFICIAL TANGLE PATTERNS tab on the top menu bar. I’ve also included the link below.

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In this tile montage, Damy shows several ways to vary 3D-Room in her lovely monotangle Zentangle® tiles. In the top left example she shows how the stroke in Step 1 can be “short or long, left and right … When you change the position [or the angle] of the straight line, the fun arises.” Damy shows 3D-Room with no grid, a regular grid and a channel grid.

As you enjoy any of the tangles on the site, please do leave a comment of thanks and encouragement to show the artists you appreciate them for sharing their creativity to inspire yours.

Check out the tag damyt for more of Damy’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

Related Links

1. Looking for tangles by Artist or Type? For details visit the ABOUT > HOW TO FIND TANGLES BY ARTIST OR TYPE page on the top menu bar of any page on the site.
2. What is a Zentangle? — if you are new to the Zentangle Method, start here for the fundamentals.
3. Zentangle terminology — a glossary of terms used in this art form.
4. How to use the site — an excellent free video tutorial showing how to use the site as well as pointing out lots of useful features you might have missed.
5. Linda's List of Zentangle-Original Patterns — here is the complete list of original tangles (aka "official tangles") created and introduced by founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, including those not published online. If you are new to the Zentangle Method I highly recommend learning a few of the published Zentangle classics first.
6. "A Zentangle has no up or down and is not a picture of something, so you have no worries about whether you can draw a hand, or a duck. You always succeed in creating a Zentangle." Thus patterns that are drawings of a recognizable naturalistic or actual object, figure, or scene, are not tangles. A pattern is not always a tangle — here's what makes a tangle. TIP: tangles never start with pencil planning.
   • Un motif n’est pas toujours un tangle — Qu’est-ce qu’un tangle ?
   • Un diseño no es siempre un tangle — ¿Qué es un tangle?
7. How to submit your pattern deconstruction to TanglePatterns
8. For lots of great FREE tutorials on TanglePatterns, click on the TUTORIALS link in the pink alphabetic menu bar below the tangle images at the top of any page.
9. Strings! Have we got STRINGS! Click on the STRINGS link in the pink alphabetic menu bar below the tangle images at the top of any page for 250 different (free) Zentangle-starters. More than enough for any lifetime!
10. Never miss a tangle! FREE eMAIL NEWSLETTER - visit the SUBSCRIBE page on the top menu bar of any page on the site and sign up to get notices delivered free to your inbox.

Today is Anzac Day … “fallen in the cause of the free”

From the poem “For the Fallen”, by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), published in The Times newspaper on 21st September 1914.

April 25th is one of Australia and New Zealand’s most important national commemorative occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.

“Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders ‘who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations’ and ‘the contribution and suffering of all those who have served.’ Observed on 25 April each year, Anzac Day was originally to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli against the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

Anzac Day is also observed in the Cook Islands, Niue, Pitcairn Islands, and Tonga, and previously also as a national holiday in Papua New Guinea and Samoa.” Wikipedia

Anzac Day is broadly equivalent to our Remembrance/Veterans Day (honoring all who served) combined with Memorial Day (commemorating those who died serving).

To mark Anzac Day today in the UK, Prince Harry “laid wreaths during a dawn service at London’s Wellington Arch and on behalf of the Queen at the Cenotaph”. ~ BBC News

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