Tattoo patterms for my siblings :-)

My brother had asked me to make him a design around "Om" a while ago, and when my sister heard about it, she had the grand idea that we should all three get the same pattern tattooed. Now the designing bit I can do, but I am trying to duck out of getting a tattoo - needles and I have a longstanding enmity :-))

So I made a scribble for my brother - he likes it but asked that I make it bigger. My sister on the other hand was plain creep'd out by part of the design, that reminder her of her nemesis - i.e. lizards :-) So I decided to make a 'his' and 'her' version. Here they are, including the His version whoich reminded my sis of a scaly lizard!

Hers

His.

What say, siblings - do these work?

Feathers and teeth...Tattoos, continued

My colleague liked the sketches I last made for her, but did have an additional request. She wondered if I could make a design resembling a feather. Since I've never drawn feathers, it took me a while to get to it, and here are 2 options I created for her. As I always do, I asked my little boy for his critique of the sketches. He said the first design "a little bit dumb it is". Now while I know he does not yet know what dumb means, there is little doubt in my mind that he did not like the sketch :-) Even worse, he said the drawing looked like a leaf... ah, the honesty of the young: priceless!

The second design he said was "very pretty". "I like your pretty feather, Ma", he said. Awright! 50% success ain't that bad! Just as I thought I was ready to show the sketches to my colleague tho, he said he preferred the sketch he had me custom draw on his hand, before I sat with the designs. Design 3, is also featured below.






























Yea, yea, I know - I am no marine biologist, but hey - I have a satisfied customer, so no complaints :-))

A canvas with a difference

I've always thought of my sketches as patterns on paper. So it was an interesting idea my brother and then a colleague came up with recently. Design a tattoo for them. "I want it around the 'Om' symbol - and not girlie, please", was the brief my brother gave. I have not got down to designing that one as yet, but recently my colleague made the same request with a different brief.


She has been looking for a henna-like pattern to go on her wrist, to remind her of Teddy. Her dog of 14 yrs., Teddy is unwell - and it's likely that he won't be here much longer. She asked for designs that possibly incorporated his name.

Here is the first set of drafts - more to come on this, but for the first time, I made my sketches in pencil so I could erase any errors - did not want those to be etched for perpetuity!

See if you can spot Teddy's name between the square and triangles on both sides!

This is large, but otherwise, I like:

My 4 yr. old liked this one the best:

That's the last one...