Koi Fish
October 4th, 2007
This is a sleeve cap I just started working on. The piece seems cramped but the client is in college and plans on going into the professional world and needs to have the tattoo kept undercover even in a t-shirt so as not to be prejudiced against.
I tend to do nothing but original art unless provided by the actual client so as to keep things custom. Here he wanted a more traditional piece and so I used some flash inspired art from an artist named Henning. I used his basic Koi deign and then totally changed the wind/water bars and the whole coloring of the fish along with the face structure so as not to make a cookie cutter piece.
The first stage was to do the line work. I like to keep line work simple and not rely on it so much but use it to keep the structure together and use shading and color to give it form
The next stage was to color the fish along with the waves breaking and wrapping around it.
The next session will be to finish off any details in the fish and waves and then move on to the tedious task of filling in the wave bars.
Entry Filed under: In progress works
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