mama

"Its looks like mum!"

mum

' crying because you've gone too far and gotten too many ghastly tattoos!'

Tims Tatt

dom sleeve 6th session

Its getting close to finishing , one more small session.Six sessions in total so far.Taken on the iphone, so Ill be updating shortly with some high rez photos.

owl and snake part2

heres an update of the owl and snake stomach piece in color

neck

A little somthing I whipped out tday! Necks sure are a wierd place to tattoo.
This one was sat in a champion manner by my freind. 

older study

This is an older study that was for a tattoo. I ended up developing it more on photoshop doing layers, playing with hues and adding effects. 

2nd progression shot

In the final stages of progression. Background fill needs to go in now!

progression sleeve work

These pics are from the one sleeve. The backgrounds are yet to be filled in the last session to come.
I just wanted to get the progression shots out there so you'll have to excuse the vasoline shines until final shots are taken.

animal studies

Some random animal studies for different tattoos completed.
Most of these are done on a4 sheets of velum paper.

head study

Small study of a hand tattoo.Ive drawn dozens of these head studies and Ill never grow bored of doing them!

mayan sleeve

Mayan inspired sleeve.
Theres a hawk under the arm and a pyramid that Im going to get some photos of next to show. I finished off the tattoo with some aztec patterns at the top of the piece.

owl and snake

Yes, its coming to the end of the year and Im still putting out new large pieces. The drawing for this was painstakingly difficult as I tried not to make it look like every other owl tattoo Id seen before!
Lots more thickening of lines and shade work next.

heart/hand

Had quite a great day tday with my client knocking up this little gem on the inside of the arm. Part of a full sleeve in progress. Amazingly the photo has not been bumped up in color on photoshop , Its just a clean untampered color photo with my amazing canon 500d.

skull back piece

This is a progression shot of a full back piece.Its the 3rd sitting that has begun with layering in color.Ill add futhur posts as the piece grows.

Upper sleeve

An upper part of a sleeve a few weeks after being done.

Dom sleeve study

A full sleeve study.

four horsemen of the apocalypse

This is a section of the 'four horsemen of the apocalypse' full sleeve.

A fun sleeve not quite finished.
One more session of tightening and some more background fill behind the feathers at the top of the sleeve.The subject matter was based on a can can girl character and a flamingo.There will be some closer shots posted again when completely finished.

nouveau girl study

Another prisma color study for top part of a sleeve.

angelic girl study

part 2 of a prisma color study on velum.

portrait

Here it is again. This time you can see detail better if you click on it.

Stage two of a half sleeve.
Heres a progression shot of a lady in a snow scene. Ive added snowflakes thru the design with cloud swirls .
Breaking the design down into greywash and the actual color gray was interesting process for me to do.
No color in this one!

heres the color study after a bit of  prisma coloring  then some photoshopping and illustrator work!

four horsemen of the apocalypse sleeve stage 3

Lower half of the four horsemen of the apocalypse sleeve.
Theres a rider in knights armour riding on this freaked out horse.

dominatrix sleeve

stage 2 of a full sleeve.
This sleeve was designed to capture dominating and submissive female characters.
The reference was taken originally from my partner and her sister dressed in character
The photo shots were taken of one character standing over the other in a dominating way.
The pool table was used in this photo incident for one of the girls to tower over the submissive one and dramatic lighting was used.
Yes, strange you may think, tho the photos gave good reference that I otherwise could not have found.
It was good to create somthing from scratch with much control.
In the end the design deviated from the original photos, tho captured the desired effect.