Meditate Through Art | Circular Zentangle

this is the image of a zentangle blue and green drawn using stabilo fine point pens

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I am Maria hajj a meditative art teacher, a coloring book illustrator, a Youtuber and a blogger.

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This channel of meditative art tutorials provides you with a number of free tutorials around Mandala drawing, doodling and many other therapeutic arts. The importance of meditative arts resides in their ability to boost your creativity while putting you in a state of relaxation and meditation. Getting in touch with your creative side is a very important method to exit the stressful daily routine. Mandala drawing by itself has proven to have a huge number of positive effects on a person's life. I offer you these tutorials trying to make this drawing technique easy and accessible to all.

No artistic skills are needed. Every person is creative and all he truly needs is to learn how to unleash his creativity.

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Why is this a Zentangle and not a Mandala?

There is an important difference between a Zentangle and a mandala. A Zentangle is a doodled, well defined shape, like the one we have in this tutorial. So even if it's a circle it doesn't make it a mandala.

When you have an ensemble of circles organized around the same center then you will have a mandala.

Simple difference, no?

Materials Needed (Check the brands I recommend)

A4 white paper or cardboard

Compass

Protractor

Ruler

Pencil

Eraser

Stabilo fine point 88

Directions

This tutorial is divided into seven well explained steps.

1- In the first step you will trace a Mandala Grid.

For further info about how to do it you can check this step by step tutorial CLICK HERE 2- In the second step you will trace the right side of the zentangle. You can see in the picture that the pattern I chose is a wire pattern. To draw this pattern I took the intersection point between the circle and the vertical line. I drew lines connecting this intersection point with each and every point marked with the protractor. 3-The third step is to sketch intersected diagonal lines between grid lines.

4- The fourth step is to draw spirals between the grid lines.

Video Tutorial

Watch the tutorial video on my youtube channel to get a better idea of how to replicate this zentangle.

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My Meditative Mandala Coloring Book

If you happen to be a mandala coloring fan and would like to add to your collection creative and unique hand drawn designs, then allow me to introduce you to my Mandala coloring books.