How to learn to draw zentangle and doodling?
If you have not yet tried to draw in the zentangle or doodling techniques that are popular today, then it's time to learn them.
Let you not create real pictures from drawings, but you will definitely have an occupation that you will turn to if necessary to throw away the accumulated negativity, think about something good and beautiful.
This article contains information about zentangle and doodling drawing techniques. You will not only learn when and who first came up with the idea of filling a white sheet with simple but spectacular patterns, and how drawing techniques differ, but you will also be able to develop your hidden abilities.
What is zentangle and doodling?
The zentangle technique has long been adopted by people of creative professions to create amazing and bewitching drawings, fill the pages of notebooks, sketchbooks.
Interesting patterns are used even by art therapists during their trainings. The patterns drawn on the cards with a gel pen can be seen on the Internet, or you can create wonderful drawings yourself.
Advantages of drawing in zentangle and doodling techniques:
- drawing is seen as a way to meditate
- you can take a break from pressing problems for a while
- see familiar things with fresh eyes
- the opportunity to reconfigure and be inspired by new projects
- is an excellent remedy for insomnia
- way to boost self esteem
- drawing uncomplicated patterns calms, relieves stress
- a way to develop the hardness of the hand, eye, improve handwriting
- increases attention and develops fine motor skills
The photo below shows spectacular black and white and color patterns drawn using the zentangle technique.
So, what are beautiful works of art in miniature?
Zentangle (zentangle)- these are the drawings that are created unconsciously while waiting, or just to relax, calm down.
Having studied some features of drawing patterns, you can not just drive a pen over a sheet, but transfer unique abstractions onto white paper squares.
Zentangle drawings are characterized by repetitive motifs. Zentangle technique got its name in 2006 in the USA from two words:
- "zen" is one of the Buddhist sects
- "tangl" means confusion, interweaving
Dudling- these are the very scribbles that people of different ages do so well: from small to large. Drawing in the technique of doodling consists of simple shapes and curved lines.
In this technique, you can start drawing without any knowledge or skills. After all, the main thing that helps to create an interesting pattern is the ability to act intuitively.
Drawing in the zentangle technique is different in that its implementation requires a significant concentration of attention. Draw patterns on square cards, whose size 9x9 cm.
Cards can be cut out of thick paper, or you can buy ready-made ones in an art store. 
Zentangle can be drawn in a notebook by drawing a sheet into squares with sides of 9x9 cm 
You can draw a regular sheet of paper into squares. Each square contains a separate composition. There is another option for making drawings: several small ones are drawn in a large square.
Curved lines inside the squares define the boundaries of future patterns and shapes, combining them into one composition.
In each pattern, it is necessary to highlight and show the shaded area. Shadows and highlights in the drawings will emphasize depressions, create the illusion of three-dimensional patterns, and help make an unfamiliar world attractive. Tonal contrasts will make the world recognizable.
Pattern examples:
Zentangle drawing for relaxation, inspiration and pleasure
Zentangle drawings are what we draw on paper, sitting at a meeting, at a lecture, during a protracted telephone conversation. Doodles and dashes help not to lose concentration, to overcome drowsiness.
With emotional exhaustion, fatigue, a marker, felt-tip pen or an ordinary pen will distract you from pressing problems: you will start creating without thinking about anything. mental energy at such moments is not wasted, and therefore the information received continues to be processed and assimilated.
A few squares with patterns turn into an interesting finished work and it does not require any special skills in the field of drawing.
Today, zentangle or doodling elements can be seen on various decorative elements. Strange and intricate figures are combined into bizarre surreal stories.
What is the meaning of meditation while drawing in the zentangle technique?
- To make the drawing beautiful, you need to be able to focus on the moment “here and now”. And this is possible only if you are completely immersed in the drawing process.
- The mechanical movements of the hand on the paper eventually become conscious.
- Spontaneity is gradually replaced by thoughtful composition.
Zentangle and doodling techniques
There are certain rules for zentangle patterns:
- The pattern is done in black and white colors.
- the pattern is limited to a square frame inside a card of a given size (9x9 cm)
- inside the frame, random lines are drawn that divide the square into sectors
- the sectors formed after drawing the lines are filled with bizarre arbitrary patterns
- the plot of each composition is abstract
Drawings in the technique of dudling are performed intuitively, there are no rules when performing them. Zentangle, unlike doodling, is created in such a way that the pattern is complete and complete from any side and from any angle.
To draw in the zentangle technique, you will need the following materials:
- thick watercolor paper
- liner (capillary pen), marker or regular
- ball pen
- simple pencil
Diverse and unique patterns are created according to one scheme:
- We cut out tiles of classic size in Zentangle (9x9 cm) from paper.
- We draw lines: put four dots with a pencil at the corners of the tile, stepping back a little from the edge. We try not to press the pencil so that later we can easily get rid of the lines.
- We connect the lines with one solid line. You should not use a ruler for this or try to draw a straight line: some carelessness will give a special charm to the tile with a drawn pattern. Thus, we set the boundaries for further work.
- The next step is to create "zones" inside the square for future patterns. They will not be scattered in a chaotic manner, but will create a complete picture.
- When the zentangle patterns begin to turn out, then it will be possible to skip this step and start drawing without preliminary “marking”.
- How to mark a square into "zones"? Drawing lines without taking your hand off the paper. In the photo you can see how such lines look.
- Now you need to fill in the empty space between the lines with patterns. Draw segment by segment. Here's what it looks like:
- There is no specific sequence that must be followed: fill the segments with a pattern as your imagination tells you. Leave some areas undrawn, this will not affect the overall picture.
- When you consider that the drawing does not require adjustments and additions, erase the pencil lines drawn earlier.
- Be sure to add shadows by determining for yourself the location of the light source. Without shading, the eye will not slide over the picture and attract attention.
- Having decided where the light will fall on the elements of the pattern, add a hard pencil and blend the painted borders well.
- Shade the sides of the filled segments, giving the image a three-dimensional look.
The shaded patterns “Pebbles”, “Leaves”, “Peas”, “Balls” look especially impressive. If your shadows do not work out or are too dark, you can erase them with an eraser or brighten them.
Zentangle patterns are shown in this section. You can modify them or come up with your own. However, if you are just learning how to draw a zentangle, then it is better to use classic pattern patterns.
While drawing, we turn the zentangle tile around its axis to make it more convenient to draw lines. You can indicate where the bottom of the picture is by putting a signature on one of the sides.
Drawings in the style of doodling with a pencil in stages for beginners
- Doodling drawings do not require any rules to be followed, and there is no need to cut tiles. You can simply print out the contours of an animal, a geometric figure, a plant and fill in the empty space with patterns.
- You can draw a square or an oval in the center of the sheet, and then call on your imagination to help and draw whatever comes to mind. Somewhere you draw pigtails, somewhere you add a spikelet or let the ribbons emerging from the mouth of the shell intricately intertwine.
- You simply add oblique lines to your creation, combine arbitrary elements into a circle, draw contours and get a unique picture.
Let your hand move randomly or determine the direction and draw simple repeating patterns coming from the inside.
How to draw using the doodling technique, you will learn by watching the video.
Video: Dudling pen
Zentagles step by step lessons: learn tangles
To fill the tiles with patterns, you must first make drawings of tangles - patterns. You can practice drawing tangles and only then start creating zentangle drawings.
Below are simple tangles for beginners.
Some beautiful variations of the Cadent pattern for your inspiration 
Video: draw tangles
Video: 24 Doodling Patterns, Zentangle Patterns
Zentangle - manicure
Beautiful patterns have become popular not only among artists: doodling is used to create an unusual fashionable manicure.
A whole work of art on the nails in a new technique will complement the image and help make it harmonious. In addition, even the girl who has long given up on independent nail design can apply an ornate drawing using the dudling technique. After all, many believe that they can not draw anything.
What do you need for a simple but effective nail art?
- search the Internet for a suitable pattern that you can repeat
- disassemble the pattern into components and gradually practice performing it on paper
- start sketching the pattern, carefully transferring lines, circles, petals
- Do not worry if some of your lines are uneven: doodling can hide many mistakes!
- If you take a closer look at the design of dudling nails, then make sure that there is nothing complicated in these drawings.
The process of creating a manicure includes several stages:
- base color nail polish
- applying a pattern with varnish of a more liquid consistency
- instead of varnish for drawing patterns, you can use acrylic paint
- fixing with a top coat that gives extra shine
What tools will be needed?
- special thin brush
- in the absence of a brush, you can use a toothpick or pen
The photo shows improvised materials that can replace special tools. You can see how thick the strokes are when using them.
- Start with a circle at the base of the nail plate, gradually moving further: above the first circle, draw a second one, then petals that diverge on the sides and fill in the empty space with dots or strokes.
Video: Zentangle for beginners
Who wants.
Drawing and ink from scratch
I will start this post with "desire", because in the matter of gaining the ability to draw with a pen / pen, personal desire is even more important than talent and thinness. skills.
Usually, drawing in any other technique begins with a pencil construction, corrections, possibly a change in composition in the process, and therefore active use. In general, no one bothers to make a pencil construction according to all the rules for drawing with a pen / pen, but this post is just about how to learn how to do without it.
First of all, those who want to learn how to draw "without an elastic band" should be patient, a little time (but every day!) And a great desire. Why do I attach such importance to desire? Because very often, especially at first, there will be disappointment in your work, and as a result, in yourself, in your skills, and only desire will not let you spit on the whole thing from a high tree and decide that even without this skill you can live in peace.
Below, I will show some tricks that will help you get a normal result, as well as give examples of mistakes and unsuccessful work that you should not be afraid of at all. I hope all this will help to maintain the desire to learn and will not allow a feeling of inferiority to appear =)
So the tools are:
Pens. You can draw with ballpoint pens, gel, some other. Now I prefer to draw, but at first it was either ink or liners.
I had to draw with reusable "Uni pin" fine line liners, but, apparently, they are either for smoother paper, or we did not agree with them in Feng Shui, but they wear out the core faster than the refill ends. Only once we ran them, and that was when Leo wrote in a notebook with them, and did not draw. Perhaps they are not erased, and the rod goes away from being pressed into the case, but the result is the same. The most popular sizes are 0.1 and 0.2, sometimes I use 0.3, but this is when there is no 02 and very rarely 0.05 for especially small details, when I undertake to draw them at all
Very similar to the "Uni pin" liners from "Faber Castell", one of the series even in the cases is the same, only the inscription is different (now I don't have them, so the photo is from another series)
Another option is Centropen liners. They are one and a half times cheaper than "Uni pin" and two times cheaper than "Faber Castell", they are not inferior in quality, the rod still leaves, perhaps a little slower. The only difference is that they are disposable, but if you consider the fact that the rest are thrown away even before refueling, then the savings are not bad.
At the moment, Leo is done with liners - at such an expense, it turned out that it would be cheaper to buy and forget about problems with the rods.
Paper. Unlike drawings, it is most convenient for me to draw with a pen in notebooks - all the waste paper is together, it is not lost anywhere and is always at hand. For work and ink, I use, and for liners I have a cheap Chinese notebook with medium quality paper, so it’s not a pity, because the paper leaves in batches, and the drawings there are basically not the ones that you should be proud of right now.
The paper is greyish, with a density of 98gsm, which is quite enough for double-sided drawings.
When I sketch this notebook, I will switch to good ones with white beautiful paper and pleasant bindings that have been waiting for me for a long time =)
Now we pick up the tools and start drawing.
Basic rules/tips:
1. draw anything: objects on the table, furniture in the room, chandelier, interior, view from the window, flowers on the windowsill, etc. or from photographs (animals, birds, people, but do not get too carried away with photographs, the main thing is nature)
2. draw without construction as it turns out: clumsily, with errors, extra lines, compositionally incorrect, etc.
3. at first it is better to take a thinner pen so as not to blacken much
4. you need to draw lines quickly, do not tremble over every millimeter (at first there will be 1000 and 1 line, then only 1)
5. every day. Even the most deadly busy person can find 10-15, even 30 minutes of time and devote it to drawing, everything else is excuses and the absence of that same desire. What is deadly employment, Leo knows very well and firsthand (1 job, 2 hacks, study at a hospital + diploma - and Leo had this). Therefore, I ask you not to write to me in the PM and comments, they say, “I would love to, but there is no time”, there is simply no desire and there is laziness, and there is no need and sense to notify me about this - it’s not impressive, it doesn’t cause pity and sympathy.
6. before evaluating the result of your work, you need to copy 100 pages, at least. At the time of the creation of this post (08/26/2011), I had 101 pages copied, I draw on both sides of the sheet, fortunately, the paper density allows, and it makes no sense to frame each such work. Many pages have 2-3 small drawings.
7. How to help yourself not to be lazy: always carry a pen with you. When you are sitting somewhere: in a cafe, park, in line, at home, with friends, etc. - take it out and put it next to you. The brain will get used to the constant potential opportunity to draw and will use this opportunity =)
How to make life easier for yourself at first:
You can draw with dots. Actually, the construction is more in the mind than on paper, but putting an end to some key place, we create a visual support for ourselves
Connecting the dots
And now you can tint and detail, but in sketches of this type, this is superfluous. Here it is important to convey the form, movement, somewhere with a careless stroke to emphasize the volume.
I have no more than 10 pieces of such finished works for the entire notebook.
Most often my ducks look like this
The main mistakes that will be exactly:
500 lines, when you want to draw one - patience, my friend, everything will be, but not immediately.
Problems with the composition, crawling out of the sheet, or a lot of space from some edge. To avoid, at the very beginning, you can mark the extreme points of the object at least by eye
Disproportionality (it turned out to be a painfully beaked duck). Cures with time and practice
Wrong perspective, general clumsiness (here the perspective is lame on all four legs, with verticals it’s generally dark)
A jar of honey slumped
What to draw is necessary and useful:
Interior - wherever you live, you can always draw how it looks without even getting up from the sofa / chair / armchair / bed
All sorts of items, household appliances, utensils and so on (there was a meat grinder above - this is the most tin, especially from different angles).
Just a box
If there is, you can draw a pet from different angles when it is static (it is also necessary in dynamics, but this is more difficult and later)
It is good to draw indoor plants in such a way as to convey their volume and the appearance of the plant is clear.
Leo has a houseplant - oak, it's so obvious =)
Who doesn’t have indoor plants, don’t be lazy and buy some kind of flower, put it in a vase / glass and draw
It is also very useful to draw somewhere during a walk - we find a bench / stump, sit down and draw what first came to our eyes.
It is not necessary to draw every leaf, the most important thing is to convey the impression, volume
And you can draw if the object is piece
A good object for drawing is any stone. It is necessary to repeat the form, transfer the texture and not lose the volume (Leo still loses from time to time)
Drawing from photographs.
Also good, but in moderation and quickly. Open a photo, spend 5-7 minutes on it and move on to the next one.
So you can draw something that is not found in everyday life, all kinds of animals and birds.
Leo likes to take pictures of ducks in Vinnitsa and somewhere on the ponds, and then in the evenings draw them in detail or just sketch
The black and red Muscovy duck was so beautiful that Leo could not resist and went into details
In general, nothing complicated if you regularly devote time to practice.
If someone has problems with self-motivation and physically needs some kind of external kick in the form of: role model / ridicule, competition / mutual assistance, regularity -.
Good luck and best wishes to all who are interested! =)
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Who wants.
Drawing and ink from scratch
I will start this post with "desire", because in the matter of gaining the ability to draw with a pen / pen, personal desire is even more important than talent and thinness. skills.
Usually, drawing in any other technique begins with a pencil construction, corrections, possibly a change in composition in the process, and therefore active use. In general, no one bothers to make a pencil construction according to all the rules for drawing with a pen / pen, but this post is just about how to learn how to do without it.
First of all, those who want to learn how to draw "without an elastic band" should be patient, a little time (but every day!) And a great desire. Why do I attach such importance to desire? Because very often, especially at first, there will be disappointment in your work, and as a result, in yourself, in your skills, and only desire will not let you spit on the whole thing from a high tree and decide that even without this skill you can live in peace.
Below, I will show some tricks that will help you get a normal result, as well as give examples of mistakes and unsuccessful work that you should not be afraid of at all. I hope all this will help to maintain the desire to learn and will not allow a feeling of inferiority to appear =)
So the tools are:
Pens. You can draw with ballpoint pens, gel, some other. I prefer to draw with either ink or liners.
I had to draw with reusable "Uni pin" fine line liners, but, apparently, either they are for smoother paper, or we did not agree with them in feng shui, but they wear out the core faster than the refill ends. Only once we ran them, and that was when Leo wrote in a notebook with them, and did not draw. Perhaps they are not erased, and the rod goes away when pressed into the body, but somehow I did not have to notice any special brutality in myself in the process of drawing. The most popular sizes are 01 and 02, sometimes I use 03, but this is when there is no 02 and very rarely 005 for especially small details, when I undertake to draw them at all
Very similar to the "Uni pin" liners from "Faber Castell", one of the series even in the cases is the same, only the inscription is different (now I don't have them, so the photo is from another series)
But most of all I like the liners "Centropen". Although they are one and a half times cheaper than "Uni pin" and two times cheaper than "Faber Castell", they are in no way inferior in quality and the rod does not go anywhere. The only difference is that they are disposable, but if you consider the fact that the rest are thrown away even before refueling, then the savings are not bad.
Paper. Unlike, it’s most convenient for me to draw with a pen in notebooks - all the waste paper is together, it’s not lost anywhere and is always at hand. For work and ink, I use, and for liners I have a cheap Chinese notebook with medium quality paper, so it’s not a pity, because the paper leaves in batches, and the drawings there are basically not the ones that you should be proud of right now.
The paper is greyish, with a density of 98gsm, which is quite enough for double-sided drawings.
When I sketch this notebook, I will switch to good ones with white beautiful paper and pleasant bindings that have been waiting for me for a long time =)
Now we pick up the tools and start drawing. Basic rules/tips:
1. draw anything: objects on the table, furniture in the room, chandelier, interior, view from the window, flowers on the windowsill, etc. or from photographs (animals, birds, people, but do not get too carried away with photographs)
2. draw without construction as it turns out: clumsily, with errors, extra lines, compositionally incorrect, etc.
3. at first it is better to take a thinner pen so as not to blacken much
4. you need to draw lines quickly, do not tremble over every millimeter
5. every day. Even the most deadly busy person can find 10-15, even 30 minutes of time and devote it to drawing, everything else is excuses and the absence of that same desire. What is deadly employment, Leo knows very well and firsthand (1 job, 2 hacks, study at a hospital + diploma - and Leo had this). Therefore, I ask you not to write to me in the LAN and comments, they say, "I would love to, but there is no time," there is simply no desire and there is laziness, and there is no need and sense to notify me about this.
6. before evaluating the result of your work, you need to copy 100 pages, at least. I have now copied 101 pages, I draw on both sides of the sheet, since the density of the paper allows it, and there is no point in putting each such work in a frame. Many pages have 2-3 small drawings.
How to make life easier for yourself at first:
You can draw with dots. Actually, the construction is more in the mind than on paper, but putting an end to some key place, we create a visual support for ourselves
Connecting the dots
And now you can tint and detail, but in sketches of this type, this is superfluous. Here it is important to convey the form, movement, somewhere with a careless stroke to emphasize the volume.
I have no more than 10 pieces of such finished works for the entire notebook.
Most often my ducks look like this
The main mistakes that will be exactly:
Problems with the composition, crawling out of the sheet, or a lot of space from some edge. To avoid, at the very beginning, you can mark the extreme points of the object at least by eye
Disproportionality (it turned out to be a painfully beaked duck). Cures with time and practice
Wrong perspective, general clumsiness (here the perspective is lame on all four legs, with verticals it’s generally dark)
A jar of honey slumped
What to draw is necessary and useful:
Interior - wherever you live, you can always draw how it looks without even getting up from the sofa / chair / armchair / bed
All sorts of items, household appliances, utensils and so on (there was a meat grinder above - this is the most tin, especially from different angles).
Just a box
If there is, you can draw a pet from different angles when it is static (it is also necessary in dynamics, but this is more difficult and later)
It is good to draw indoor plants in such a way as to convey their volume and the appearance of the plant is clear.
Leo has a houseplant - oak, it's so obvious =)
Who doesn’t have indoor plants, don’t be lazy and buy some kind of flower, put it in a vase / glass and draw
It is also very useful to draw somewhere during a walk - we find a bench / stump, sit down and draw what first came to our eyes.
It is not necessary to draw every leaf, the most important thing is to convey the impression, volume
And you can draw if the object is piece
A good object for drawing is any stone. It is necessary to repeat the form, transfer the texture and not lose the volume (Leo still loses from time to time)
Drawing from photographs.
Also good, but in moderation and quickly. Open a photo, spend 5-7 minutes on it and move on to the next one.
So you can draw something that is not found in everyday life, all kinds of animals and birds.
Leo likes to take pictures of ducks in Vinnitsa and somewhere on the ponds, and then draw them in the evenings
The black and red Muscovy duck was so beautiful that Leo could not resist and went into details
In general, nothing complicated if you regularly devote time to practice.
Good luck and best wishes to all who are interested! =)
In order for the image to be complete and complete, any woman needs to take care of a suitable nail design. Many are satisfied with a regular manicure and a monochromatic coating on the nails, but it is much more interesting to do something original and thereby emphasize your individuality. Even if you have never done drawings on the surface of the nails, learning this is not at all difficult. One of the easiest tools for painting on nails is regular pens with gel refills in all sorts of colors.
You don't have to be an artist
You don't have to be a nail technician or have experience as an artist. Drawings and patterns with gel rods on nails can be done even by an inexperienced person. To do this, you need to stock up on patience, perseverance, inspiration and, of course, pens. Often, the work of novice nail art masters cannot be distinguished from the work performed by professionals. But first, it’s better to practice making the simplest drawings, trying to make them look the same on the nails of the left and right hands. If you are right-handed, drawing with gel sticks with your left hand will require some skill.
This tool is recommended for beginners because bad drawings are very easy to wash off with water. And in order to consolidate a successful result, you need to wait for the pattern to dry, and then cover the nail with a colorless varnish. This manicure is also loved by experienced craftsmen, since the texture of the gel pen has a noble sheen, and the core has an optimal thickness. With such a pen, even very complex drawings with many small details can be depicted.
Background and fixer for patterns
An ideal and unique manicure can be done at home with ordinary gel pens. This process has several stages. To make the drawings on your nails look neat, you need to do a classic cut manicure or push back the cuticle, after softening it. Next, you need to paint the nail plates with varnish. It is better if there is a varnish on the nails of one or two colors. An ombre-style manicure will also look great - one color smoothly turning into another. French manicure as a basis for drawing with a gel colored pen is also great.
Beginning artists may not have enough experience to perform these types of manicures, so you can just paint your nails in one color. It should be a shade that contrasts and harmonizes with the gel pen. For example, silver patterns look great on a black or dark purple background, while red patterns look great on a yellow or white background. The base can also be transparent. Transparent varnish can also play the role of a fixer. Before painting on the nails, you need to wait for the base varnish to dry.
What patterns to draw
Before you make patterns on your nails, draw with a pen on paper. Invent your own ornament or find ready-made samples. Usually, beginners have few ideas, but subsequently they become more and more. Here are the easiest ways to decorate nails:
- Stripes. They can be longitudinal, diagonal or transverse. Choose those that emphasize the beauty of the nail. Longitudinal lines will make the fingers visually longer. Blue or red lines on a white background will tell you about your love for nautical style. This design can be supplemented with a sticker in the form of an anchor or a steering wheel on one nail. Stripes of rainbow colors are appropriate in spring and summer, they are combined with bright outfits.
- Lines. Straight, curved, wavy, zigzag - whatever. Drawing them is easy even for beginners. The main thing is to keep the distance between the lines and make sure that the pattern is the same on all nails. Longitudinal and transverse lines intersecting with each other will look like cells.
- Dots. Dots or small circles are easy to draw, but you need to try to make sure that the distance between them is equal - so the pattern will look more neat.
- Geometric figures. Squares, rhombuses, triangles, ovals and circles give a lot of room for imagination. These figures are depicted not only separately, but also together with others, for example, a rhombus in an oval or a square in a circle. Inside the figure, you can draw the same stripes or dots.
- Floral ornament. Branches, leaves and flowers are the most popular designs on women's nails. And this is not surprising - the fair sex love nature. Depicting floral patterns is not difficult. Start, for example, with a picture of a camomile, a dandelion, or a tree branch.
Using a stencil, it is easy to draw more complex patterns. Convenient adhesive-based stencils are sold in specialized stores. Nails will look even more beautiful and elegant if you combine a gel pen with varnish, stickers, rhinestones and other materials. Give free rein to your imagination, draw and enjoy the result! 
It was in the search for pens for drawing that I made many discoveries. Firstly, the same pens can be called completely differently in different stores and books. Secondly, pens, liners, markers and other drawing tools are innumerable, and each type has its own characteristics. And thirdly, you can hardly find all this stuff in Minsk, and what you can find is many times more expensive than in other countries (even Russia and Lithuania)...
In my material, I will use the names that I eventually came up with, and at the same time I will illustrate each tool with a photograph - so that you know what to look for (in fact, this is how I buy pens myself :))
Ballpoint pens. Of course, you can draw with them, but they are more good for doodling (see). Since the ink is distributed unevenly due to the ball, even a solid line with constant pressure can be either too pale in different areas, or vice versa with excess paint (and it smears! Yes, it is ballpoint pens that usually smear the most).
One possible use for ballpoint pens with bright colors is to decorate an already finished black and white drawing with color. By the way, "poisonous" (sometimes called neon) colors work great on black / dark paper. I haven’t seen anything like it in Minsk yet, but I have experience buying from the Chinese. Apparently, such pens can be bought in neighboring countries - in particular in Russia.
Gel pens. They also sin a little, like ball ones, with inconstancy of the line, but:
- They make the best white, silver, and gold ink pens for drawing on black/craft, colored paper;
- They are sold even in Minsk, although the Chinese have more choice;
- They are very cheap.
felt-tip pens. Why not? For example, I just robbed a child of a few colored felt-tip pens and I even liked it. Felt-tip pens, of course, have their own characteristics: for example, if you hold them twice in the same place, the color changes noticeably, the paper becomes too saturated with paint, and some even go “pellets” or get very wet. Therefore, it seems to me that felt-tip pens are good for drawing either on thick, smooth paper, or when your movements are already verified and confident.
By the way, double-sided markers are convenient:
liners(in stores they are simply called pens, capillary, gel, and God knows what). An alternative name for these pens is liners: different masters call them differently. Liners are the most convenient and common drawing tool, as they solve the problem of paint uniformity. Today they are produced in a variety of types.
What is a drawing liner? How to determine if it is a liner? By dubka - like this:
The liners may differ in thickness: as a rule, it is indicated by a number characterizing the thickness in millimeters. For example, here in the photo 0.7, 0.5 and 0.05:
What thickness you need is up to you. But practice shows that at the initial stage it is easier to learn to draw with thick liners. Thin ones are more suitable for small elements inside a large pattern.
Liners come in different colors. At the same time, as a rule, only black and brown liners are made of different thicknesses. Colored liners are usually equally thin. Well, or I didn’t come across others :) In Minsk you can find them even in ordinary stationery, but I usually met a very poor choice.
Color liners can be used for:
- Coloring other people's mandalas (I have not yet said that the most popular on Amazon last year with great triumph was antistress coloring book for adults- and it is just made in the techniques that I am talking about ?!);
- Coloring your black and white drawings;
- Drawing colored mandalas and other elements.
Unfortunately, these liners are more suitable for drawing/coloring on white paper. For a dark base, they lack saturation and brightness (and for such cases there are other options;) Just about them - next time).
Brown liners. I call them craft for myself - because they are very reminiscent of craft paper in color. They also come in different thicknesses, like black ones. And some manufacturers can even find a brush liner! True, I have not yet mastered it - it was just included in the kit :))
By the way, there are also hybrids in nature, double-sided liners: for example, a tool that has a felt-tip pen on one side and a liner on the other. Such tools are good because you have the same color in both cases. This is useful when you use a thick line in the main drawing, and draw thinner details.
