My New Tangle Knot vs O-Knot

I created this Tangle Pattern after summer in the Year 2016. How I now wish that I remember the story behind each of my tangle patterns. Now trying to remember stories behind each tangle pattern becomes a job in itself. He He He

If you are anywhere like me; please take time today to document your art journey.

Tangle O-Knot

I faintly recall that one afternoon I was playing with just an Orb, a Line and some more lines. And fascinatingly tangle O-Knot was born.

Tangle O-Knot is slightly different from the Knot Tangle.

Here’s how I explain -

As you can see, in Step-1, I use an Orb and A straight line on the top.

In Step-2, I pull a line towards the orb from the left end of the top straight line; and bring it only halfway down the orb.

In Step-3 (Step-2 and 3 are done in the same box), I have pulled the line from the back of the orb (like a Hollibaugh tangle effect) - and landed on the line pulled in step-02.

In Step-3 & 4, I have repeated the lines to form the tangle.

In the above picture, I have shown how O-Knot can be organically drawn and placed over each other; with a little shading on the orb. I have drawn the tangle on ATC Zentile. I don’t remember the other tangle shown with it. Can anyone help me?

Below is a Zendala (i.e. round zentile of a size), from my old sketchbook, how I used Tangle O-Knot, as a border tangle and combined with Tangles Arukas and Spoken from Zentangle HQ.

Some of my friends jovially named the drawing pizza. After they said so, even I could notice the yummy baked pizza.

Though I enjoyed creating O-Knot; I am always fascinated to try different ways to play a tangle pattern. I tweaked and re-tweaked Tangle O-Knot several times and then a new Tangle Knot hit my mind.

As I had previously not blogged or publicly shared by tanglepattern on my website; I decided to give a new name and shape to the existing tangle.

But I was so so wrong! Guess, we have open links to video tutorial; created by pattern enthusiasts. She teaches how to draw Tangle O-Knot here.

A CZT colleague Jasmine Jehangir and a friend of mine, recently published her artwork using Tangle O-Knot here. I loved her variation to the tangle. Very unique of her.

Tangle O-Knot also remains published with pattern-collection site. But for reasons, I am no longer affiliated with them or their website.

So without wasting time, let’s jump into creating Tangle Knot.

Here’s the step out to the Tangle Pattern:

Here, you can see the obvious difference between Tangle O-Knot and Tangle Knot.

I loved the fluid experience of Tangle Knot here.

In Step-1, we start with an orb and a curvy line. You can create this curvy line at any length around the orb. In my example, I have shown the curvy line almost reaching covering 2/3rd of the orb.

For fun sake, just picture an egg and white yolk on a pan - for your fried egg. Did you get it right? :-D

In Step-2, I start pulling a line from the curvy towards the orb; as though a small piece of cloth is spun out of the orb. :)

In Step-3, I just pull a line from the bottom of the orb and just echoed the lines, again and again, to cause a nice coverage to the Tangle Knot.

Some more examples to Tangle Knot:

A small snippet video on how I drew Tangle Knot (the pic on left) is here

I have recently posted a video tutorial on How to draw Tangle Knot on my youtube channel here.

Hope you enjoy playing with this tangle pattern as much as I did.

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