1.
How to make amazing zentangles
a step by step guide
Zentangles

2.
Supplies
• Printout of an animal
• Drawing paper
• Ruler
• Sharpie pen
• Scissors
• Glue stick
• Black construction paper
• Pencil
• Eraser

3.
First, choose a portrait
of an animal. You will
want a close up with
details.

4.
Using a graphite pencil, shade the back
of the image you have chosen.
You only need to shade the part that the image is on.

5.
Next, place your
chosen animal image
over your drawing
paper.
Then, use your pencil
to trace the outline
and details of your
animal. Press hard, so
the graphite on the
back will transfer to
your drawing paper.

6.
Your image should
now be
transferred to your
drawing paper.

7.
Now you will need to stylize your
picture a bit. Try to create closed
shapes that you can fill in with
designs later.
I added in these
feather shapes

8.
We are really making progress
now!
Using a Sharpie marker, go over your
pencil lines and then erase any
remaining pencil marks.

9.
Now comes the fun part. Begin filling in the
shapes with a variety of patterns and textures.

10.
Cool Vocabulary Word!
Horror Vacui
a fear or dislike of leaving empty spaces, especially in
an artistic composition.
With zentangles, you are
going to want to create the
feeling of horror vacui, by
filling in the empty spaces as
intricately and densely as
possible.

11.
There is no need to
have it all planned
out. Just doodle in
patterns as they come to you.
Maybe consider which areas
you want to have a darker
patterns and which areas you
want to be more open.

12.
Keep up the great work!

13.
That’s it! The final
part is to cut out the
image and paste it
onto a piece of black
construction paper.

14.
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