How to draw POD FLOWER

I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful weekend and are ready for a whole new week of great tangles to explore.

Australian artist Helen Williams has been off the radar for a while as sometimes happens and life “events” take over. So we’re delighted she’s back blogging occasionally again and she shares her Pod Flower tangle with us.

Pod Flower shares similarities with a bunch of tangles but I know how you all love the floral themes. If I recall correctly off the top of my head 4 Corners and Vercut were among the first to use the alternating rice shapes in a grid as its basis.

I took a bit of license with shading and inking for my example of Pod Flower, I liked the 3D, almost-chiseled effect it gave.

Helen illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Pod Flower here on her blog. Helen includes a wonderful range of variations to explore as well as showing how it works “On a wonky grid with a bit of randomising thrown in.”

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Check out the tag helenw for more of Helen’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

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Free Download: How to draw four basic grids (reticula) for your Zentangles

Like some help drawing grids? (In the Zentangle PRIMER Vol 1, Zentangle HQ is now referring to grids as reticula and give 30 examples.)

Here is a free TanglePatterns PDF download showing how to ink a basic Freehand Squared Grid, Freehand Diamond-Shaped Grid with a Triangle variation, and a Freehand Ogee-Shaped Grid.

You can always locate this tutorial again by visiting the TUTORIALS tab on the pink alphabetic tangle menu bar.

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