The little details.

About Tangleguide

Tangleguide is an independent collection of Zentangle-inspired drawing exercises. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by Zentangle, Inc.

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Terms of use

The drawing exercises and PDF are free resources provided as-is for creative practice. No purchases or subscriptions are offered. Difficulty labels are editorial guidance rather than official ratings. Completion times have not been measured; the exercises are self-paced.

Artwork & attribution

Leaf Trail, Woven Ribbons, Petal Circle, Gentle Waves, Little Fans, and Seed Pods are local labels for practice illustrations created for this Tangleguide project. They are not verified official tangle names or claims to have invented these motifs. Similar patterns may appear in existing art and tangle collections. The SVG illustrations, example compositions, and printable are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Credit “Tangleguide,” provide a link to the material and license, retain supplied notices, and indicate any changes. This license applies to our illustrations and PDF, not to third-party resources linked below. These simple geometric motifs are not claimed as exclusive inventions.

Zentangle is a registered trademark of Zentangle, Inc. The illustrations on this site are generated from vector drawing instructions. They are not scans of hand-drawn artwork. External reference articles and step-out images remain with their respective authors.

Reference sources

These resources explain terminology and provide further learning. They are not the sources of our six locally named exercise illustrations.

• Zentangle: What Is It? — official description of the method and its non-representational approach.
• Zentangle: Get Started — introductory resources and Certified Zentangle Teachers.
• TanglePatterns: Zentangle terminology — terms used in tangling, including step-outs.
• TanglePatterns: Basics of the Zentangle Method — introductory lessons and materials.
• TanglePatterns: How to draw Keeko — an established named tangle using groups of parallel strokes; useful context for woven motifs.
• Margaret Bremner: My tangles — an artist-attributed library of named patterns.

Consult each source’s own usage terms before reusing its text or images. See the TanglePatterns copyright notice. A link here does not grant permission to reproduce that source.