The Art of Drawing Dangles: Creating Decorative Letters and Art with Charms

I challenge you to try this! I love everything about this artwork and I thank the creator of this concept! When doing my creations, I feel as though I go into a deep creative meditation. You can either follow the booklet instructions step-by-step, or challenge yourself by thinking OUTSIDE OF THE BOX! The designs force you to take your time and it’s amazing how creative one can be. I am fully retired and am NEVER BORED! I love the whimsical world of color and when completed, it makes me giggle! PS - It helps to have good quality paint markers!

Well organized with loads of ideas, some projects, and tons of examples. Full-color. Also give you space to try it yourself. This book and a pack of markers or colored pencils would make a great gift. I have new ideas for my artwork and gifts now and the doodle-like nature of it is very relaxing. Author did a great job. I highly recommend it.

I spent probably 2 hours looking for a decent lettering book for my 11 year old cousin. She really wanted to learn lettering. I finally settled on this book, but wasn't sure still because I ultimately just guessed between 3 different ones on which to get, but HOLY GEEZ did I get this right. This book is PERFECT!! It has step by step instructions for each letter (upper and lowercase), and while it only shows one method each time, the dangles part lets you customize it as much as you want, and each letter is so different that you can really bring in different design aspects of whatever letter you like the most to easily create different letters of your choosing. By the end of Christmas Day, 4 of us were all drawing letters. One of them was her 7 year old brother who substituted the flowers for baseball dangles, which was totally adorable. There were also other words with different style dangles aside from the actual alphabet, which showed more cool ways to customize your letters. I will MOST DEFINITELY be buying one for myself as well. I'm totally obsessed.

I bought this book for some creative ideas to decorate my cookies that I make. It has a wealth of designs as well as alphabet letters. It has lots of pages (144) to entertain and inspire. It is organized well into 10 chapters including words, letters, shapes & mandalas, everyday, projects, charms and a color gallery. There are some good instructions on creating your own dangles and designs. Such a great addition to my inspiration library!

I've been doing Zentangle for a long time now, and I love it, but Dangles are awesome!! So much fun! I combine them with other ZT designs and create all kinds of cool art. It works well to decorate planner pages or journal pages, too. Tons of design ideas, and step outs in the book.

So cute and quirky love the many possibilities of the designs.

This is my new favorite handlettering book (and I have a library of them!).If you like whimsical lettering, you'll LOVE this book. Seriously, even if dangles aren't your thing (they're totally mine!), Olivia breaks down how she creates the letters in her book, including fill pattern and more. She gives examples of all the letters, shapes, ideas for projects, and more!What I really love about dangles is how they can transform even clumsy lettering into mini works of art. I use them in particular when I realized (again) that we are out of birthday cards, and I can just take cardstock and draw a name, and fancy up the letters with some dangles and color! You'll find that even if you feel like you're not in the least bit creative/can't draw/etc, you can make awesome, individual cards for your friends (or your kids' friends!) just by copying Olivia's designs (you know, as a jumping off point!). I bet you'll surprise yourself.Anyway, I simply can't recommend this book highly enough. It's in my "don't leave the house without it" bag, and likely to be there for a while!(Note: I was first introduced to dangles a couple years ago by a page in Joanne Fink's Zenspirations: Letters & Patterning, which I also recommend for fun lettering ideas, although it's much shorter than this one.)

Great to add to your Zen tangle library even for the OG DOODLER😁