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Well my boyfriend wants a super huge tribal tattoo so I thought I'd have a bash at designing it. Here are concepts one & two (image one) and three (image two). One/Two, I ditched, probably for the obvious reason that it wasn't looking manly / generally cool enough. I'm going to keep generally with the third concept but tweak some areas, for example how the back piece connects to the arm. Not liking that so much at the moment.
The body views took me about two hours to draw, traced directly from photos I took of my boyfriends torso from different angles. Drawing over them was simply a cleaner base to use than grainy photos taken where the light was all at wierd angles. This just gives basic contours I guess. I actually really like the body views. I love painting skin haha :)
Enjoy! Hopefully the final concept (shall we call it 3-B lol) to follow soon. This has been on the shelf for a few weeks so I could do with working on it some more imminently. The tattoo basically needs expanding down the chest and around the side to meet the back piece.
1 & 2
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Just a quick one here. I am due to go on holiday tomorrow, but due to natural disaster affecting the UK (you would have to live in a cave not to have heard about this lol, if you dont know what I'm on about, go the the BBC News website and type in volcano!!), instead I am at home worrying (and hoping!) it will pan out ok, and trying to distract myself drawing! I'm off out for a nice long walk, and hopefully a family visit just now..
EDIT 18/04/09 - My holiday has now been cancelled so I guess you will be seeing more updates of this portrait and possibly other pieces too. What a total bummer.. /EDIT
But anyway. I've tweaked a few bits here and started re-working the hands. Theyre looking much better already I feel. :)
So I have spent about another hour or two on this since WIP 8 - I've redesigned the dress, added a few different hues into the general shading of her skin, and cut out those awful awful hands! Those, I'm really worried about to tell you the truth. I really am awful at drawing hands... But, they have to be done.
The dress is looking a lot better. Its still screaming "Hi! I'm a prime example of unconvincing fabric painting!", but its better. Hopefully inspiration will strike and I'll be able to improve it. If not, I guess its ok as it is.
Well, I'm feeling far happier with how this is turning out. I'm beginning to think however that I won't have enough time to complete it before I go away on holiday next week though, simply because I cannot seem to stop procrastinating!
Here, I've added some detail to her hair, as well as a pearl hairnet, and also you can see just how majorly I'm redesigning the dress. Still, lots to do however. And I'm leaving the hands til last as I know theyre going to be a total bugger to do. Grr hands!
Here, the main work has been: I resized the head, added in basic eyes and began to redraw the dress. I really think the head looks a lot better in proportion now :) The dress is going ok but I think its too early to really tell yet how its going to turn out. Wish me luck!
I've pretty much totally repainted the face here. It looked closer to how I imagined her as it was before I suppose - with the basic feature (mainly the eyes), but, I do really like this one. Its obviously much more refined at this stage. I will probably add a little more to the face, before reworking the dress. I'm really not liking the dress... I think I might repaint it totally. There's something about the bodice that doesnt look right, anatomy wise, and of course the folds of the dress's skirt aren't convicing considering the fabric its made of. I really hope I can finish this piece before I go on holiday next Monday!
So, I love letter writing, and receiving letters! A little while back I sent one to my friend Sam, with a doodle of her fursona on - I really liked it, so I inked it up just now, and we're going to do a collab (i.e. she will colour it). I can't wait to see how it turns out. I really like the ink! Her fursona is SO fun to draw :D
WIP 4 - In this one I have put a lot more detail into the dress shading. I've tried to make the dress a rustly shiny sort of material. I also repainted the hands, roughly. They still look shockingly awful. I humbly request redlines! *cries* I dont understand how, on the model they look like perfect human hands and then I translate them into this awful mess. Uggggh... Not happy with the hands at all! I also gave her eyes less of a wide eyed look.
WIP 5 - I added some texture to the dress with a handmade hatched brush. Just to make it less flat really. You can see how I am going to be adding pale golden embroidery embellishments to the dress. I obviously have a lot more to do! It will be a creeping leaf/vine design embellished with lilies (lilies idea is thanks to my lovely friend Sam!)
I think I need to repaint the dress a little, to crumple the fabric more. Its too uniform! In general, I'm happy with the way this is progressing. Just wish I had more time to spend on it!
Sketch trade with my good friend Mossy - her character Juniper! Only a quick sketch but very fun. I miss photoshop! *sob*
So I only took pictures of my portrait of Geoff on my phone. Go figure its taken me about 4 months to upload them, but better late than never! Sorry for the small and not particularly quality shots, but, enjoy and I hope it gives you an insight into how I work!
Final piece can be found here.
Click the image below for the fullsize version :-)
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