All about shading

Since a few weeks, I try to improve my shading skills.  I already saw the very beautiful tiles of Eni Oken in the facebook group Square One: Purely Zentangle.  And so I discovered she had a facebook group of her own “Shading Zentangle" all about shading zentangles and a website as well ‘The creative world of Eni Oken http://www.enioken.com/.  I decided to buy one of her books '3D Tangle: Shading Fearlessly' to really learn more about shading, and I must say... it already helped me a lot !

Here you can already see some of my improved examples, with much more contrast in it using Eni Oken's shadowing techniques.

Here I used one of Ben Kwok's templates (nr 006 squirrel) that he publishes weekly on the Ornation Creation facebook group.

Challenges Square One April

I totally forgot to post the challenges and my tiles made in April.  We were so bussy with the (second) house we rent and finaly found a nice young couple who wants to live there.  And we also had to look for a new school for our younghest next year, so my mind was less focussed on zentangle...

So here they are:

week one: Morse
I used Morse whith Phicops in my tile.

week two: Cruze
A new patterns to me, and not an easy one ! I combined it with Jonqal in some stairs. Also Diva Dance and Cyme is in this tile.

week three: Shnek
Shnek made me think of the violin-sign, just as we had a concert with our choral.  We performed some Bach cantates, and I enjoyed it very much.

week four: Snail
Oh, this is a nice one.  It made me make this spriral.