Poof'n Out!: drawing

More Tattoo Fun: Butterfly!

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Still messing around with the bamboo, pen and touch... but I feel like I'm picking it up pretty quickly. I'm working on a memorial tattoo where the woman wants a butterfly resting on some holly. I made the stencil, and now I'm working on coloring it so that it has a spiritual glow, kind of like a flashback scene in a movie. The pen and touch is definitely living up to its reputation, and coloring is fast, easy, and it looks good. Here is the butterfly. Off to the studio, lot's to do today!

More Tattoo Fun: Butterfly!

Still messing around with the bamboo, pen and touch... but I feel like I'm picking it up pretty quickly. I'm working on a memorial...

Bamboo Pen and Touch! Play Time!

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After starting to design tattoos, I decided to invest in a tablet for my PC to help make the process easier. I ended up deciding on Wacom's Bamboo Pen and Touch. I purchased mine on amazon, refurbished, for about 60$ after shipping. It was a great price compared to used ones on ebay, or their lower end pen models going for about 50-60$, used, after shipping. It's smooth, feels just like paper, and the pressure sensitive pen is to die for. The multi-touch aspect, which was just a perk at first, is actually really useful. I can pan and scroll pages, finger paint, open and move folders, and even right click with just a swipe of a finger. I just bought a super cute turtle shaped mouse, but this may replace it. It's sexier anyway. The pen is dual ended, with one side acting as the pen, and the other as the eraser... which blew my mind. Okay so i'm easily impressed and I am a tablet virgin. I'm glad to let the Bamboo Pen and Touch pop my tablet cherry. I messed around for maybe 15 minutes in Photoshop drawing and coloring just to play around. It really mimics the use of an actual pencil, changing the weight of the line based on pressure, and the texture of the pad(which mimics paper) feels totally natural. This is the quick drawing I did. I used a few colors, but mainly black. This is nothing serious... as it says, but seems like a great starting point. Oh, and I used it to write all of this... The Bamboo Pen and Touch gets 5 stars, for being fucking epic.

Bamboo Pen and Touch! Play Time!

After starting to design tattoos, I decided to invest in a tablet for my PC to help make the process easier. I ended up deciding on Wacom...

Recent Tattoo Commissions

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Here are a few tattoos, I've been commissioned to do. I was asked to do a floral spread representing a family with 11 children. It has 5 types of flowers, representing the 5 girls, and 6 honey bees (the state bug of Arkansas) to represent the Boys. Another was a design for a man with a still-born brother. He wanted him represented by a baby resting with a White Siberian Tiger. And the last is a Shel Silverstein design. The woman wanted a  modified drawing to go on her back, so I took his drawing <i>The Sidewalk Ends</i> and ad it a floating sidewalk.

Recent Tattoo Commissions

Here are a few tattoos, I've been commissioned to do. I was asked to do a floral spread representing a family with 11 children....

A Small Cupcake

<div>In addition to working on my book of poems, ive begun work on my own boys love manga! Maybe im just crazy but im enjoying having a lot of projects running! Always keeps me busy! I have the cover of my manga done and a few pages. Ill share those later!<br />
I inked the figures, water colored them, then scanned an edited the colors :) <u>enjoy</u><br />
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A Small Cupcake

In addition to working on my book of poems, ive begun work on my own boys love manga! Maybe im just crazy but im enjoying having a lot of pr...

Canopy Complete, New Tree Stalk, & Gifts

<div>So I've finished the canopy, it needs a few touchups here and there but otherwise its going very well.  I think im going to decorate it with some torn up pom poms and rhinestones. Super excited. I also threw the stalk/trunk of the next tree i'll be making. Its more losey-gosey than the others but im excited to see how that will play out.<br />
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dont worry bout the lopsided canopy, i havent attached it yet, just scopin looks out...<br />
I also took the forms I threw and did some drawings on them. Can't show any closeups just yet because I don't want to ruin the gift. Im anticipating they don't regularly check my blog, but if they do this isn't too much of a spoiler :)<br />
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Canopy Complete, New Tree Stalk, & Gifts

So I've finished the canopy, it needs a few touchups here and there but otherwise its going very well. I think im going to decorate it ...

Book Buddies

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Book Buddies

Doing some sketches for a book of poems im working on. Be excited. some will be computer generated, some written by me. All are based on my...