"I am the diva" Challenges 11 & 12

I've been doing lots of tangling to start off 2013!  And getting a bit better at them, if I do say so myself!  I am getting more comfortable holding a pen again.  I have spent many years designing on computers and not with pen and paper!  It feels good to go "old school".

First, I completed Challenges 11 & 12, Monotangle and Something Blue.  I did a few samples for each, but I chose to submit the following two:

Maybe I will post the other samples I made at a later date...especially when (notice I don't say IF) I don't have enough time to make new designs to post.

Once I did the icon for Capricorn for "Something Blue", I decided I really wanted to try doing it again in another style.  That is when this one emerged:

I definitely have to learn to leave space at the edges of my pics once I start doing them for real and not just for practice!  I tend to like to fill the entire page...it somehow feels like cheating when I do the "Simplistic" doodles.

And, did I mention?, I love my silver and now my gold Sharpies!  This diamond drop tangle glistens in the light...liking it!

I also started practicing some lettering...only started though.  Well, this is the first and only one I have done at this point.  But I liked how this one turned out, so I am posting it anyway.

That is all for now.  Back to the drawing...er...doodling board!

More Challenges!

I continued to practice the Challenges provided by "I am the diva" yesterday and I finished #6, #8 and #9.

Challenge #6 was called Ixorus.  When I got to this tangle, I decided it was time to practice shading so here is my first attempt.  I found this pattern to be very relaxing and I can see incorporating it into some of my actual ZIAs. 

Challenge #8 was called Hearts for Artoo.  The task was to draw a heart which incorporated lessons learned from the previous Challenges.  I chose to combine Simplicity (Challenge #1) and Ixorus (Challenge #6).  Again, I decided to practice shading even though this was supposed to be Simplicity.  So, the result was this:

Challenge #9 was a new tangle created by "I am the diva" which is called Artoo.  I had difficulty with this one.  At first it looked like a leaf of some sort and then it started to look like an onion.  So, I decided to put it on hold for now and I may try it again.  For now, this is my result.















These last two challenges turned out very minimalistic by tangling standards.  Probably because I had read Challenge #10 already and it is exploring white space!  I could probably consider either of these two as my submission for it as well, but I think I will continue practicing and make another one for it.

Anyway, back to the drawing...er...doodling board!