Tattoos and doodles

Bird's-eye view

2012-02-26T20:15:00.003+01:00

Silly pun title, once again.

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Human skelworm

2012-02-05T19:00:00.001+01:00

After drawing this I had the feeling I already saw something similar somewhere, but was unable to find it. I guess it's just a mix of a human skull + an Alien-inspired tail, or something.

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Water drop

2012-01-22T19:00:00.001+01:00

My scanner still believes than light green = yellow, so as always I had to struggle to get the colours right. :p
Coloured pencils (but the blue glow is digital). Maybe it can be seen as elements: water and earth.

Water drop and plants

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Triskel plant

2012-01-08T19:00:00.002+01:00

Happy (belated) new year everyone! :)

Plant triskell

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I haven't looked at this website (or my associated email box) for ages, I thought that taking a big break would do me good. But I discover I still have very very few inspiration for "tatoo-able doodles". Argh.

Knot a dragon...

2011-12-11T19:00:00.001+01:00

Ugh, horrible pun. It only has 2 paws so it looks like a mix of snake and dragon, maybe... My previous attempts (of completely different drawings) were failures, so this final one was done in a rush as I was getting annoyed.

Viking knots...

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Skewed skull

2011-11-27T19:00:00.001+01:00

No reference. That was fun to do.

skull

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Colorful star

2011-11-13T19:00:00.002+01:00

Colorful star and swirls

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Carved lotus

2011-10-30T19:00:00.011+01:00

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Funny, the texture of the paper makes it look a little like a stone carving. Just a little.

On other news, I may change the "pace" of that blog from one post every Sunday to one post every 2 Sundays... I'm really out of ideas for tattoos design at the moment. I wasn't even inspired by halloween (maybe because it's not celebrated here). Instead I'm having fun doing ugly gouache paintings, and it seems to take almost all the inspiration/motivation I have.

Another vertical tribal tattoo

2011-10-23T19:00:00.003+02:00


Vertical tribal tattoo design

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I was a bit out of ideas lately, so tadaaa... a tribal flash.
It's funny to think I started to draw this kind of stuff some 15 years ago when I was in secondary school. At that time I thought there was only 2 types of tattoos in the world : tribals and the crappy prison/army tattoos worn by some adults I knew (ugly cross, lion, naked chick, knife... bleh.)

Eeek

2011-10-20T19:52:00.014+02:00

Something I saw earlier, a perfect example of what people should NOT do.
http://strangeris.deviantart.com/art/Fucking-scratchers-263505506
I understand why the original tattoo artist is pissed off.

First, stealing a tattoo design that was not intended to be copied just tells the world you are moron. If you want a ready-made design, there's tattoo flash designs, they are made to be copied. Photos of tattoos made especially for someone are not.
Second, make sure your tattoo artist knows their job, otherwise... Urgh.

Ornamental flourish-something

2011-10-16T21:37:00.000+02:00

I'm so great with titles, wooohoo.
Quick drawing, with digital colours because I was already late. Now that I look at it again, it would be better if I had rotated it some 25° to the left.

ornamental tattoo

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geometric flowers

2011-10-09T19:00:00.001+02:00

Obviously, I have some trouble with colour...

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Cthulhu-ish

2011-10-02T19:00:00.001+02:00

Yes I know, I didn't update the last 2 sundays. Argh. :)

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Owl

2011-09-11T19:00:00.001+02:00


Owl design

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Shell

2011-09-04T19:00:00.000+02:00

One of those time, when I start to draw without knowing what I'm doing. Not sure I like it that much, but I was a bit out of time.

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Mjölnir

2011-08-28T19:00:00.031+02:00

So... I wanted to do something simple, with just flat colours, no shading. Of course, things never happen exactly how I want them ^^'.

Mjölnir / Thor's Hammer

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On a side note, look at this, these are some great hammer pendants (I especially like the one on top, it's way more "nordic" than my version) http://varglya.blogspot.com/2010/07/recent-works-more-carvings.html

Science & Knowledge

2011-08-21T19:00:00.005+02:00

I wanted to try to do some lettering. I wasn't sure what words to choose, but after seeing so many "faith" and "believe" tattoos, I opted for those words that seems less common ;) (well, actually there's quite an amount of very nice science related tattoos, from equations to artistic rendition of electrons etc.).

Science and knowledge lettering tattoos

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Celtic key

2011-08-14T19:00:00.004+02:00

A golden celtic key. I had fun doing the knotwork pattern on it.

Celtic key tattoo design

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Strawberries tattoo

2011-08-07T19:00:00.004+02:00

Strawberries \o/. Colors are partly pencil, partly digital.

Also, a huge thank again to the person who sent me a photo of a design from this blog, tattooed. I was a great surprise and really made my day ^^.

strawberries tattoo design, with swirls

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Fabric butterfly

2011-07-31T19:00:00.014+02:00

Hm, not sure about the kind of lace thing. Not much inspiration lately, I promise, I'll try to do better next Sunday ^^'.

fabric butterfly

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Rose heart

2011-07-24T19:00:00.002+02:00

I have the feeling I already saw something like this somewhere (probably better, this was done without reference so the shading is a bit weird)

Rose heart

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Engraved stone

2011-07-17T19:00:00.003+02:00

Hmm, a pocket sized Newgrange stone? :)
And in case you wondered, the last doodles on coloured background were actually done on some coloured note paper, the small (9x9cm) kind. It's nice for small designs.

Engraved stone

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Steamoboros

2011-07-10T19:00:00.001+02:00

So, if you mix the steampunk cogwheels and the Ouroboros symbol, you get...

Steampunk ouroboros

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Mecha-triquetra...

2011-07-03T19:00:00.001+02:00

... or whatever you want to call it =p.
Just a quick one, once again (where the heck is my inspiration gone?!)

Mecha triquetra

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Star & swirls

2011-06-26T19:00:00.013+02:00

Nothing interesting today, the too hot weather makes me completely apathetic, and I couldn't even put my hand on a paper without leaving a sweat mark. So this is a very quick and simple scribble.

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