Flying naked men

[kingandy]

Angel I just thought I would share this one. Mr Chris Holland (XLJ) is planning to get a back tattoo, and elected to commission me to draw him one (presumably in some effort to avoid ever having to get it done). This is my latest proposal. Damn him for making me draw feet.

My most enduring memory of The Mary Whitehouse Experience^[1] is their book, The Mary Whitehouse Encyclopedia, for the following entries^[2]:

Feet: The natural enemy of the Artist.

Hands: See Feet.

It remains true to this day.

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[1] Note for Non-UK readers - Old satirical TV sketch show
[2] Not in this order, obviously. It was all alphabetical and stuff.

Comments

Tattoos

[nattydreadi.livejournal.com]

One of the most important things to do when designing tattoos is to make sure that all of your main lines are very strong and that you keep shading to a minimum. Reason being that shading is apparently 'hard' in the same way as feet are.

Will you be colouring it in?

Anyway it is nice, however you need to think about the size of the final piece and if staying at that size or slightly larger it is fine. If full back then I would suggest having more smaller feathers and more detail in the body and sword as you can afford to with a blow up.

Re: Tattoos

[bacony.livejournal.com]

Not to sound too critical, but when designing something to go over a person's back, it is better to start with a surface of the same dimensions as the back.

That way (once you've measured Mr Holland) you'll know what size it needs to look good at, and can make it look good at that size.

Re: Tattoos

[kingandy]

F'nar.

Re: Tattoos

[kingandy]

It will be inked, and likely with more detail. I'm not sure about colours. The problem is if you put some colours in you sort of have to do all or most, and I gather white is hard to do (which is what colour the wings and cloth would be). I guess the only other colours would be red and yellow on the flames and hair, as his flesh is flesh coloured...

I think it's supposed to be full back, I drew this on an A4 page (it may not be showing actual size here, I scanned it at about 300dpi and shrank it to 30%...).

Re: Tattoos

[nattydreadi.livejournal.com]

As Katie said, you need to get a sheet of A3, get the back dimensions and then draw the tattoo at real size. This will lose a lot when blown up.

You may want to ask the person who will be scarred for life if he wants colour at all ...

Re: Tattoos

[kingandy]

Oh ... I say "full back", I mean sort of across the top. At least that's what I'm shooting for, it makes sense for it to be wider than it is tall. With the wings and all. So I figure A4 is about the right size.