Summer Sun

Now that i have started fully doing work again, i have had all my paper and pens out, and in the bundle i found a couple of drawings i did during the summer/autumn months. here is one that is finished, i have one more that i need to finish but do not have the time at the moment to do it.

'Rocket Queen'

for the past 4 weeks i have pretty much done sod all when it has come to drawing...i have not been in the best of moods, and have basically slept the entire 4 weeks i have been back home.
anyway...i think i have finally snapped out of it and have slowly started getting back into my work. i want to complete a project linking the royal family and tattoos. i have always been quite fascinated with our royal family, the history, the elegance, the formal grandeue of it all...oh to be a queen for the day, which i have not doubt is very hard work, and a demanding job.

I am especially in love with the old photographs of the late queen mother, there is just something about her face which oozes kindness. Especially the photographs of her when she is with her two daughters. something you do not see within today's modern royal family.

pencil sketch (not finished) - i plan on placing a chest piece on this one

very quick/ rough line drawing

corgi - want to use this as a tattoo on the queen, i was thinking a sleeve piece??

unfinished princess Diana - i thought maybe a neck tattoo on her

'Pity the Dead'

along with the the uni work, i have also been drawing what i want as well.....off course....

the first image is a design im gonna get tattooed on the last free space on my right shin....can't wait to get it complete....and feel them silver needles.... :)

i wanted it to be elegant and pretty but also bad ass....for some reason im obsessed with roses, skulls and filligree....so here we have it all....

for christmas i wanted to give my parents something they could keep forever, instead of the usual crap....and what do they love most in the world....me and my sister off course (debatable) so heres a portrait i drew of me and my sis...black and grey off course...

i think they liked it...

'Sometime around midnight'

In this post, i am going to talk about my uni work.....zzz.....

My current project is creating tattoo designs narrating bible stories. At the moment i am on the 'annunciation' when the Angel Gabriel visits Mary telling her she is bearing God's child. i am enjoying it and hating it all at the same time. Its still a work in progress but i feel its coming together now, ever so slowly.....

im doing each design based on a certain body placement....

In the annunciation image i want the focus to be on the Angel Gabriel, as i feel the wings will be a great visual point, so the images below are observational drawings of some stuffed birds wings i drew from in the animal section at Norwich castle.

'Eagle wing'

'random seaside birds'

'Pelican'

Here are some of my back piece designs, real quick sketches, just getting ideas out, experimenting with composition and all that rubbish.

i really like the idea of placing the angel along the bottom, having the wings shape around the back...

i prefer this angel to the one above, but feel it looks like the angel is carrying the baby away, instead of delivering...

i really like this angel....but i think thats because i fancied the guy i drew it from...

i hate this design, but i do like the text....text taken from the bible...

"Anything goes"

i feel i work alot better when im drawing stuff that has no significance to me and it does not matter what im drawing, im just drawing it because i fancy it, which is why half the time i do not really like my university work.

anyway, here are a few images i have drawn, just because i felt like it....

'mexican kiss'

'Jeff Hardy'

'Friends'

'Scissorhands'

'couple'

"You Shock me all night Long"

this post is about some pieces i have created for some of my uni projects. as much as i completely love drawing in just pencil and creating black and grey images, i also really enjoy experimenting with colour using paint and also material.

the first image is a play on the virgin mary, im trying to illustrate the annunciation with a modern day, taking the piss kind of style, so in this image i am trying to portray a trashy 'virgin' Mary.

This second lot of images are quote illustrations taken from the book titled "A word from the wise"...

“knowledge speaks but wisdom listens” – Jimi Hendrix on wisdom

“There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – William Shakespeare on good and bad

“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle” – James Keller – on generosity

“Gardens are a form of autobiography” – Sydney Eddison – about gardens

'The Sharpest Lives'

Like i have said before my first love is Tattooing!

i am at my absoulute happiness when i have my machine in my hand my ink in my pot and a willing, and somewhat nervous client in front of me. i just can not get enough of this art form, i think the closest i will ever feel to loving something as much, would be the love of my own child, if i ever have any.

anyway, here is a few of my creations i have completed over the months.....

'A'nklet

Unicorn

Roses - my favourite thing to tattoo

...because she loves me :)

flowers and text

...because i love her

filligree