Marasu and Molygon

This week’s diva challenge is to use only Marasu and Molygon. I’d never done Marasu before. Thankfully, it’s an easy one, especially since Molygon and I are not very good friends.

So, I started with the easy one, Marasu. I decided to try some overlapping and added more pieces of Marasu. Then on to Molygon. I chose to add it to the upper right corner. I started with a small bit and just grew it outward. I don’t know how you’d add layers to it, so I just settled with widening Molygon. I’ll have to check out other participants tiles for this challenge, to see what they did with Molygon.

Here’s my tile before shading.

I had not idea what I was going to do with Molygon. So I started shading Marasu. Then dealt with Molygon. I looked at the stepout article from Zentangle where they showed some ideas of what to do with it and picked on. I wish I had made my molygon segments larger to allow better shading.

I thought Molygon needed something else, so I added an aura around the outer pieces and then shaded it a bit.

I really appreciate all the comments. I’ve really been working on my shading; it’s encouraging to know that I’m improving. Now for the overlapping practice. OH! Now I know! I should’ve gotten out my softer pencil and shaded between the Marasu layers.Hmmm, looks a bit better smaller.