Kirituhi shoulder and chest tattoo drawing

Hi!

I promised to tell you something about one of my latest tattoo projects, so here it is.

Normally my main part of designs consists of shoulder pieces, but for this design a customer
asked me to do a shoulder AND chest piece in one.

It's really tricky to get it all on a flat sheet of paper, so I needed some sort of body template.
The tattoo only covered the outer side of the left arm (from shoulder to elbow) and the left pectoral muscle.
My customer used a sheet of tracing paper and simple traced the shape of his body. The total template looked like this:

















The design had to be maori style and have some nice flowing curles/koru. First I drew the outlines of the maori shapes:















Then I filled the shapes with some traditional lines, triangles and other tribal design stuff.
















I take pictures of the design with my Canon EOS 400D and send these photos to the customer. It's a lot quicker than scanning it, because it is on A3 size paper.
The final design is ofcourse scanned in high resolution.

Here are a few shots of the tattoo sketch in progress.














I just received a comment from the customer, that he wants the fills a bit more intricate, instead of the traditional tattoo lines.

So I'll get back to you soon with an adjusted tattoo design.

Kind regards, Mark

Maori sleeve design

Hi,

After a short break this weekend, I had multiple requests for custom tatoos. Some of it being very interesting and some less.
I picked the 3 best tattoo requests and started early this morning on one design.

It is a half/quarter sleeve in maori style, based on a custom design I have done earlier. You can find it on my custom page and look for "full sleeve maori tattooed".

The design was a bit smaller then the one on my gallery, around 20 cm wide and 23 cm high.

Here's the first basic outline of the tattoo and one with a little fill in it.




















The first design is a bit too straight on the borders, so I adjusted it to make it more playfull. My customer really loved the design and fill, so now I will finish the fill and finalize the maori design.
Will get back to you soon with an update on this design.

Regards, Mark

New template and design for my tattoo blog

Hi there,

For some time I had my simple standard blogger template. A bit boring I think.
So I started to search for a new template and totally adjusted one to my wishes.
The original design is called "Charcoal".

There are some links in the menu to my own website, so the navigation between the blog and site is better.

The colors are still the same, but it's a bit cleaner and easier to read.
If you have some features you wish to see on it, like a poll or a slideshow, just let me know and I will try to add it.

Ps. The header is just a simple design for now, maybe I can change it in the future.

Regards, Mark Storm