Category: Drawings (Page 7 of 19)

For those who haven’t been following along: I had been commissioned recently to make a drawing which was to be the basis of a tattoo eventually.

• the initial study
• the second stab
• the final edition

Now that the drawing has finally turned into an actual tattoo, I can tell you that the “client” was Pat of thebooge.ca. His account of the proceedings if you’re interested: “Marked For Life”.

I’m delighted to know the tattoo turned out splendid. Buzz of SilverLine Tattoo, it must be said, did an incredible job producing a tattoo based on what was a pretty complex drawing.

You’re dying to see that tattoo by now, aren’t you? Well here it is:

A little reddish and ouchy still, yes — however: mission accomplished. May it bring you and your family nothing but good karma, Pat!

A gnome, wikipedia will have us believe, is “a mythical creature characterized by small stature and living underground”.

Fair enough.

But what about oversized, androgynous, sexually ambiguous gnomes with a penchant for open air activity and sassy boots?

Take One:

We need some color. Second pass:

A little background imagery to finish it off…

… and that’s how you draw an androgynous gnome.

Thank me not! The eCard is available at the exit. Don’t forget your guide.

Well here we are: I think the tattoo drawing is pretty much finished. I had some trouble making the cherub top left look “less evil” (per request of the client who for now, shall remain nameless!) — I wonder what that says about my personality. The solution came by way of Gaby who superimposed an image of a cherub’s face in Photoshop and went on to draw the eyes, nose and mouth from there. Now you may consider this cheating but it did get the job done, so what the hey…

Here’s approximately the final size of the tattoo:

… and here’s how I imagine it will more-or-less look tattooed on skin:

I can tell you one thing: it’s gonna be a while before I draw cherubs again.

So here’s the result of my second stab at a tattoo drawing.

Thicker lines, lots of crosshatching. For those interested, here’s how I went about this:

• doubled the initial sketch on a separate piece of drawing paper with a pencil
• rubbed my chinny-chin-chin
• attempted some crosshatching voodoo (see moonbug crosshatch his way out of the proverbial paper bag!)
• scanned and corrected some stuff in Photoshop
• created legs for the female on a separate piece of paper and Photoshopped them in (the guy-in-drag effect was an unintended comedic side-effect)

Whew! Onward.