Poof'n Out!: tattoo

Boy Lolita + First Star Trek Tattoo

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I took a break from making the tattoos yesterday to start work on my next illustration. He is legless right now but looking good. I'm really loving how efficient it is to draw my characters directly into photoshop. Still a little rough with the pen, but i'm sure with time it will all work out. Also I designed my first Star Trek tattoo. It's a fractal infinity with the IDIC logo.

Boy Lolita + First Star Trek Tattoo

I took a break from making the tattoos yesterday to start work on my next illustration. He is legless right now but looking good. I'm...

More Tattoos!

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I'm on a roll, and I really want a tablet computer... I'm hoping to have enough saved up by fall to buy the New Sony Tablet that is coming out. Here are a few designs I've been working on! Here I have the finished Butterfly, two Iron-man designs, and a Phoenix design. Getting pretty accustomed to the drawing digital tablet, and I'm beginning to crank it out.

More Tattoos!

I'm on a roll, and I really want a tablet computer... I'm hoping to have enough saved up by fall to buy the New Sony Tablet ...

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....

Tattoos?

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Who knew I would end up designing tattoos to make a little pocket cash. Here's one of my illustrations I've turned into a tattoo design. For more of my designs, or to purchase one (includes stencil), visit my marketplace on <a href="http://www.createmytattoo.com/iplaywithmud">CreateMyTattoo</a>.

Tattoos?

Who knew I would end up designing tattoos to make a little pocket cash. Here's one of my illustrations I've turned into a tattoo...

More Blossom Randomness

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She liked the drawing but not on her body ha-ha, so here is my redesign. She wanted a more delicate drawing of the blossoms and a bit more brown and pink... I convinced her to up a little bit of the green to help make the pink pop, and this is what I've come up with and re-proposed. Today has been lots of fun... off to bed! Internship at The Wexler Gallery in the AM!

More Blossom Randomness

She liked the drawing but not on her body ha-ha, so here is my redesign. She wanted a more delicate drawing of the blossoms and a bit more...

Japanese Magnolia with Silhouette Bamboo

For fun I'm designing some tattoos, and someone asked for a magnolia/bamboo design. It was a fun side project for the day. I drew it u...