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We're going to work with this hand, it's kind of a round shape. We're going to do a flower.
I do a lot of flowers, and what we'll do is we'll start with a few preliminary lines.
I usually use three different colors. I'll start with the orange because it kind of give
me a little kind of a idea of where everything is going to go, and then I'll go in with a
more defined with a darker color.
The hand shape is this way, so I'll draw a circle on the hand to kind of get an idea.
Most all designs, flower designs, most of the oriental style flowers, peonies, splattered
mum's, everything derives from a circle. Also with designing or a tattoo, most of the designing
is all derived from circles.
You wan to see that I'm going to tilt this flower. I'm going to draw it so that it actually
tilts towards the inside of the body, so that it actually draws your eye towards the center
of the body. Most everything that you would do placement wise, even if you do stencils,
everything should face into the body. Everything's coming into the body, so that's a good tip.
Alright, so I'm going to start with a couple little ideas on the preliminary lines to get
an idea of where each one of these petals is going to go. I'm drawing a peony, I do
a lot of them, and I really enjoy doing flowers. Like Bob Ross, happy little flowers here and
there. But I'm just going to draw a few little lines here and there so I can get an idea
of where to go.
Always remember when you're drawing it to, if you have existing tattoos, always think
about how you're going to connect those tattoos. You're basically making . . . I do full coverage
tattoos, so I'm always working with existing work that's already there. So when I'm actually
designing a tattoo I design it to work with what they already, have whether I'm having
to bring this darkness down into the flower design, that way it all blends together, so
it makes it all one tattoo.
Peonies, they have a lot of folds, and the more folds you create the more depth you make
in the flower the richer the depth is going to be. So you try to mainly fill the design
up with the hand, that way you don't have a lot of residual action on the sides. Also
try to put as much detail, but not too much detail that it crowds it all together.