Why do you like coloring coloring books with patterns so much?

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Coloring book anti-stress patterns with flowers

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Mandala coloring pages with patterns

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Composite anti-stress drawings

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Antistress coloring patterns

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Happy Mondays to you! Today we will not go into the intricacies of using artistic materials, but will talk about some types of artistic activity that are within the control of even the most novice creator. Academic artists can mutter as much as they want that doodling, zentangle, painting by numbers have nothing to do with real creativity, but you and I know that this is not so. Anything that helps you express yourself, calm down and overcome your fear of a blank page can be safely considered a creative process. So, meet: anti-stress coloring books, zentangle, doodling and paintings by numbers!

Doodling and Zentangle are almost inextricably linked with each other and few people understand what the difference between them is. Both methods of drawing use simple elements that fill the sheet, only if doodling is “meaningless” filling (in translation there are meaningless scribbles), similar to what we draw on a piece of paper when chatting on the phone, then zentangle obeys certain rules and is drawn already meaningfully with complete immersion in the drawing process and understand what you want to get from the work.

Artist at work

The distinctive feature of these techniques is that the result is always beautiful; there is no such thing as a bad result.

By doodling, you can either disconnect from the endless stream of thoughts that usually run through everyone's head, or focus on one thought that requires thinking. The hand and the brain in this case are absolutely not connected with each other. You can fill in absolutely any sheet and outline with doodling elements, even a paper napkin, even a page of a diary.

If you are a little ashamed that your work looks like children’s scribbles, then you can use a little life hack: get a drawing pad and make some simple outline on each piece of paper, tracing it through a stencil. It could be a leaf or a sketchy flower, the outline of an animal or an ice cream in a waffle cone. Then, when you want to draw, you will always have a ready-made template at hand, and the resulting drawings will no longer look childish.

Examples of templates for your sketchbook

Zentangle is a trend that was “invented” by Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts. There are many translation options for the word zentangle. Some say that it comes from zen - “balance”, “calmness” and rectangle - “rectangle”, who claims that it comes from zen - “Zen Buddhism”, and tangle “to confuse”, but one way or another the “real” zentangle drawn in 9x9 cm squares, exclusively in black and white. It is believed that when drawing zentangle, the artist concentrates not on some thoughts, but on the drawing process itself, i.e. performs the picture consciously. If you scribble circles and dashes on paper thoughtlessly - doodling, if you arrange them clearly according to the scheme built in your head - zentangle.

In general, we recommend not to bother your head with the difference between doodling and zentangle, but rather, we advise you to rather take a black pen, a sheet of paper and draw, getting pleasure from it. For clarity, we will give several examples of elements with which you can fill out the paper. And for the most pedantic perfectionists, we can offer a special sketchbook with a line of barely visible squares. In it, your drawing will be perfectly smooth and beautiful, like a dawn.

From doodling we will smoothly move on to anti-stress coloring books. ABOUT! This is a beneficial material for those who are afraid to even doodling. In these coloring pages, you just need to fill in the already drawn elements with color. Of course, you won’t be able to meditate on them like doodling, because choosing colors is a process in itself that requires thought, but you can undergo color therapy and enjoy returning to childhood very successfully.

Such coloring pages can be divided into abstract and concrete. Abstract are drawings of round mandalas or any other shapes. By coloring them, you can train the ability to harmoniously select colors, which is simplified by symmetrically located elements in the picture. Specific coloring pages are a regular plot drawing, which consists of many small elements.

Mandala from anti-stress coloring book

A drawing of a very specific theme with many small details from an anti-stress coloring book

I would like to say right away that books with such coloring pages are not cheap. The fact is that they are made from high-quality thick paper, which does not allow the felt-tip pen to penetrate to the back side, where the second picture is printed. True, there is a life hack here that allows you to save money: buy a set of colored gel pens for coloring and a book in the middle price segment with simpler paper.

Another “near-artistic” entertainment is painting by numbers. In our opinion, this is a very good way to get involved in painting without the fear of doing something wrong. Paintings by numbers can be considered an analogue of embroidery patterns. In both cases, the user is offered a full set of tools: canvas/canvas, paints/threads, a diagram with numbering of thread and paint colors. However, for some reason, the embroidery of such sets is highly valued, and the painting is considered almost hack work. It's somehow unfair, don't you think?

Paint by numbers process

Paintings by numbers are presented in two forms: on canvas (China) or on cardboard with a canvas texture (European and American manufacturers). It’s easier to draw on cardboard, but it looks like a drawing, but on canvas it’s like a full-fledged painting (painting), although it’s more difficult to do.

The set always includes several synthetic brushes. The sizes of the brushes correspond to the areas of the picture that need to be painted (for large areas, a large brush size, for details - a small one). We think it’s not worth mentioning that the brushes are not of the best quality and, as a rule, do not last longer than one job.

Acrylic is used as paint. Its advantage is its ease of use (it does not require a large amount of additional materials, as for oil paints), the speed of drying (within an hour or two the picture can be hung on the wall, which cannot be achieved with oil and watercolor), high covering power - the picture is already a drawing with numbers is applied, so the paint should be opaque (you understand, watercolor will not work here). The set includes those shades that will be used in painting, the lids of the jars are numbered in accordance with the numbers on the canvas itself, the artist immediately knows which paint to take for which area.

Paints from the set

There are probably many more “artistic” hobbies, and if you know something about them, please share with us, we will be happy to add to this article.