After practicing the strokes for a long time last night I ended up with this tile. As you can see I do okay on the first few steps of "Well", but when it comes to the final step of closing the loops, or making the petals, things just fall apart for me (see top left corner). Can anyone see where I am getting off track?
I do like the look of the 'half-baked version of "Well," but would still like to be able to follow the steps to complete the pattern.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Do you really feel the need to close borders? ;-) I think you did a wonderful work here!
ReplyDeleteGood point! I think I just close the borders out of habit. Thank you for making me aware of this tendency.
DeleteNot sure that I can give you any advice, I'm a big fan of the half-baked. It's a great tile.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteI think it's hard to give advice when you cannot show ir while drawing. I di like your tile however and the half-baked one is also my favorite.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it amazing how adding or leaving out one step results in such different tangle patterns?
DeleteFor me it´s lovely. I think you did a wonderful job!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteYou did do well on this. No pun intended. I agree with Anne that it is hard to make too many comments if have not seen you draw it. The one thing that I might do is to use the grid lines. I think it is easier to see where to make the loops when they are there. If you did it enough, maybe would be more obvious. Other thing I can suggest is that you go to A little Lime and look at here tutorial on doing this tangle.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the suggestion. I looked at the tutorial by Little Lime...WOW! Both the random dots and freehand approaches transform this tangle pattern. Since my initial post this week, I've continued to practice using "Well" and have been using a grid, that method does help a lot.
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