Howdy: more flash practice

Here's a cowboy from the Russian Criminal Tattoo book. I put him on florescent paper to be anachronistic (and because I had to go to in the mall this weekend and saw that florescence is all the rage... so y'know, just thought I'd jump that bandwagon. Ha!)

OK. Back to the ol'timey look... these are all based on Tatts Thomas from the Vintage Tattoos book by Carol Clerk. 

Tarter build up:

I love this guy. Smoking kills. Ha.

Here they are before colour:

Thanks again.

flash dump

Truth be told, I'd grown tired of blogging. Tired isn't even the right word... it's more like I started to feel like it was totally pointless and therefore I wasn't doing it.

However, a friend encouraged me to keep her up to date with my drawing/painting progress and so, with that small prodding, I'm back. I thank her for that because it is nice to know that people care.

So... here are some things...

This lady head is done after Amund Deitzel flash but I'm not going to finish it because I'm unhappy with the shape of her face. (Actually, I have already redrawn and inked her again and I'm not finishing that one either because I just can't get her to have the aloof/angelic look I want... I will eventually come back to her and try again because I like the image but I needed to move on and try something else.)

This bird is from the Ben Corday Tattoo Travel Book and it is the first bird I've attempted. I didn't have any brown ink so I had to use some water colours. I'm not loving my current paper selection or the water colour paint. Anyway, a learning experience.

This one was really fun.

Having gone through art school and done a lot of "life drawing", I've drawn many a penile region in my day... but, as I was never an adolescent boy, I don't think I've ever drawn a random, gratuitous "cock"...

Now I have...

This whole image is so delightfully ridiculous that I enjoyed every minute of drawing it.

It is from the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume 1. The caption says it is a "humorous youth tattoo known by convicts as 'Duet with sleighbells'". Here you can see my drawing beside the original.

Here's a scan of the inked drawing.

Here it is hanging on my fridge because I thought it was an "A+"... and also funny to use the "This is ART" magnet (picked up at the San Antonio Art Museum) to hang it.

And lastly, one I did yesterday.

Everything on this sheet is Ben Corday flash and I tried to keep the inking style as close to his as possible (so, more brush-strokey in some places than smooth, gradated washes).

Here's the central lady with her original counterpart in the book. I really need to go get some brown ink and maybe some (caucasian) skin tone - because mixing the inks doesn't seem to work very well and I had a hard time getting the colours of the original (which I was trying to do here... for practice...)

Anyway. that's it for now. Thanks for looking!!

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More Stoney Stones

I drew and painted these characters from a little picture in the "Stoney Knows How" book you can see here. They were really fun and quick. I gave them all names that end in "y" but my writing leaves something to be desired so I just messed around with it.

These two are my favourites.

Thanks!

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thanks-giving and blood-letting

Today I present two very different "thank you cards" drawn over the past two days.

On Wednesday night, in preparation for a tattoo appointment, I made this one (framed with some neat, black masking tape I found at the art store recently):

It is taken from this flash in Vintage Tattoos. The caption just says, "from Lyle Tuttle's collection"... so I don't know exactly who painted the original... maybe Lyle?

I adapted it a bit so there is a bee in the design because the tattoo involves a bee.

Then I did this one last night. To thank a co-worker of my Husbo who had us over for dinner.

(When did I start using "Husbo" to indicate my husband? I don't know the answer but I guess it's better than "domestic partner" or "man-servant"...)

Anyway, I had to take a few stabs at it. I coulda/shoulda taken a few more to get the loose/whimsical thing just perfect... but I had to draw the line and go to bed. (Pardon the pun.)

On a different and much grosser note, I am experiencing "second skin" as a tattoo bandage for the first time. This is some of my blood and plasma. Packaged Meat!

And here's some of my blood and plasma which squirted out right on the blood drops of the sketch of that first card - while I was sketching the second card... Weird eh?