Attention Left Handed Tanglers - This is a Test!

Fantastic!

Thank you for this video. As a lefty, I always end up with ink on my hand where I have rested it on a tangle! Wondering how I can flip the screen for further tangles!

Love it❤️ Thank you so much for flipping the video. As a left-hander I could just sit down and enjoy a video without thinking through how I would flipping the lessons. You really made the Zen in Zentangle happen for us lefties. Thinking things through often times takes away from the flow and wth this I was able to accomplish Zen. Thank you, Laura

What a great idea. My granddaughter is left handed and this will help in teaching her. Thanks.

This is a great idea and I’m sure left-handers will be grateful!

What a neat idea, and we lefties appreciate your thoughtfulness!! As someone else already mentioned, we lefties have learnt to adapt to the righties world and tangles, BUT, more importantly, a leftie would be drawing certain lines/strokes and shapes in different directions-just flipping the video is not enough. What would be really great now is to have a leftie draw that same Zentangle (following the original right-handed version) and record that to see the difference between all three videos!

I have been accommodating to being left handed in a right handed world for so long that most things come automatically (Once I got past those dang right handed curve around desks in high school). With Zentangle it just seemed natural – rotate the other direction because I aura to the left of a line instead of right and my orbs and spirals go counter clockwise. So I don’t think I would use the flipped videos. But Bijou, please pick me because those left handed pens are so expensive!

Oh my gosh! So helpful!! Please make more of these. This lefty is tickled pink!

Thank you so much for thinking of us lefties. I found the video very helpful. Zentangle is such a blessing to us all.

I liked seeing this approach for a lefties perspective. My brain just seems to automatically adapt to reversing things, I just do it without even thinking about it in most tangles, sometimes they get a little reversed composition ( leftie variation) thank you from a tangler in their RIGHT mind.

Oh I love it! Born right handed, fell out of bed and broke collar bone in 1st grade. Nuns made me use left hand. I can use both and often “confuse” them . Love many ways of seeing! Thank you!

yes it does help…i find i don’t get lost as easily in direction when it looks like the left hand rather than the right. i think that is why i prefer the written (or drawn) step outs to the videos…. until now thank you for trying this

I LOVE THIS! I often flip zentangle videos in my head, drawing the mirror image of the illustration. But that can be distracting and diverts my focus, which sort of defeats the purpose. Thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing the Zen back to Zentangle for us lefties!!

As a lefty, I appreciate your efforts on our behalf. But since we live in a predominantly right handed world, I’ve had to adapt. My mother was right handed and the way she taught me was to face her and mirror her movements. It worked out just fine.
Thank you, Sandi

I am not a left handed, but I asked my dad who is left handed and he told me that it works very well.

Hugs and kisses Olga

I am a lefty!! I’ll try it out !

Thx for thinking of us.

I’m a lefty and never thought about needing different directions! I would love some left-handed pens though. ;)

I posted your blog on two Dutch Zentangle FB group and immediately the responses were super positive. So please make more videos in this way 😃

Creative tangle

This is great! In early 2016 I began personal physical therapy (no insurance after a serious slip and fall, left side arm and leg bones broken). Using non-dominant right hand like a kindergartener, I found challenging patterns much easier and quicker to learn with measure eighty. Lefty ‘knew’ what to do but weeks of casts and rebreaks/resets and muscle atrophy had taken a toll. Ratcheting down any negative thoughts, l just pretended i was a child and followed Zentangle ‘rules’ of engagement, appreciating every line, each minute my A.d.d. brain could focus on righty trusting the process. By slowing down, lefty began to twitch in right/left brain repatterning and the neural networks helped retrain lefty to full use, flexibility and drawing ability. Now, when any pattern is so simple or difficult to grasp, righty ‘gets it’ quicker and ‘teaches’ lefty in mirror format to catch the line more easily. Zentangle also helped my leg as I imagined ‘walking the line’ in the same manner as drawing. One day. I want to be a CZT and help others get their brain-to-body balance moving better. Thank you woth all my heart.

JM

This leftie found the flipped video helpful. I think it would be even more useful on geometric tangles where I have left-right directional challenges. Thanks!

Thank you so much! This was a big help. It made it make better sense and less of a struggle. The flow came more naturally. It ain’t easy being a lefty in a right-handed world 😂.

You fooled me😅

For me it worked well to see a video like this!

Thanxs, it helps, but also for right handed people, no shadow anymore!

I’m surprised at how seamless the reversal appeared to be. I guess I haven’t watched many “left-handed” instructors via video. Even though I’m a left-handed tangler, I find I tend to draw (mostly) like a right-handed person. I have a feeling “left-handed” videos would be quite helpful to a lot of lefties, however, I’m okay with your right-handed instructions with maybe a tip thrown in now and then for us lefties. Thanks so much for all your videos—left or right-handed, I’m watching and tangling along with them.

“Excited” is the word needed to express my feelings . I have had to learn to use my right hand( i am using it now!) for everything. I still use my left hand for writing and to practice Zentangle….i
Zentangle has been extremely hard for me but I am determined not to give up! I cant wait to follow the instructions i feel like starting over… a beginner.