Author: robblackburn


  • lucky cat skateboard

    lucky cat skateboard

    lucky cat skateboard

    this one was inspired by ten hundred on YouTube. Showing my japanophile tendencies. This board was sitting around spray painted cyan and blue for ages before I finally decided a design. I roughed it really rough in procreate and then free handed it on to the board in pencil. I then painted it all in with acrylics. Finally I finished it off with some polyurethane spray sealant.

    lucky cat skateboard this one was inspired by ten hundred on YouTube. Showing my japanophile tendencies. This board was sitting around spray painted cyan and blue for ages before I finally decided a design. I roughed it really rough in procreate and then free handed it on to the board in pencil. I then painted…

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  • Figure sketch : Adam

    Figure sketch : Adam

    more procreate figure drawing practice using Adam as a reference from the wonderful Draw Brighton archives.

    more procreate figure drawing practice using Adam as a reference from the wonderful Draw Brighton archives.

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  • Life sketch

    Life sketch

    drawn on procreate. Gracie https://www.instagram.com/bassiegracie/ is the model. One from her insta and one from https://www.draw-brighton.co.uk archives.

    6b pencil from Gabrielle’s portrait set.

    drawn on procreate. Gracie https://www.instagram.com/bassiegracie/ is the model. One from her insta and one from https://www.draw-brighton.co.uk archives. 6b pencil from Gabrielle’s portrait set.

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  • portrait sketch

    portrait sketch

    procreate sketch practice. This is model Gracie from her insta https://www.instagram.com/p/DA_lkb4o4RO/?img_index=4

    procreate sketch practice. This is model Gracie from her insta https://www.instagram.com/p/DA_lkb4o4RO/?img_index=4

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  • a rather horrifying skull

    a rather horrifying skull

    drawn for a gocko print competition

    drawn for a gocko print competition

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  • Eclipse Hat Shop

    Eclipse Hat Shop

    Pretty happy with this serendipitous shot from yesterday’s Seattle tour.

    Pretty happy with this serendipitous shot from yesterday’s Seattle tour.

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  • neo trad skulls ‘n’ fish watercolour

    neo trad skulls ‘n’ fish watercolour

    Process of Neo traditional style tattoo design. Happy with the bottom koi and the overall flow but look how I add too much colour and obliterate the whole thing… this I will have to have another bash at this one.

    Process of Neo traditional style tattoo design. Happy with the bottom koi and the overall flow but look how I add too much colour and obliterate the whole thing… this I will have to have another bash at this one.

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  • Tattoo Style Chrysantemum

    Tattoo Style Chrysantemum

    I have always wanted to be a tattooist. I even wrote my A Level project on tattoos, I have been drawing daggers and snakes on my hands in biro since I can’t remember when. So I signed up to Mike Stockings’s Patreon and got cracking!

    On the iPad in Procreate.

    I have always wanted to be a tattooist. I even wrote my A Level project on tattoos, I have been drawing daggers and snakes on my hands in biro since I can’t remember when. So I signed up to Mike Stockings’s Patreon and got cracking! On the iPad in Procreate.

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  • Sam portrait

    Sam portrait

    This is some portrait practice I did in Procreate after doing Gabrielles tut to see if I could do it 100% without guidance. It turned out ok I think. The Model Sam is from the amazing Draw Brighton archives as ever.

    This is some portrait practice I did in Procreate after doing Gabrielles tut to see if I could do it 100% without guidance. It turned out ok I think. The Model Sam is from the amazing Draw Brighton archives as ever.

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  • Pickle men

    Pickle men

    I am a big fan of a pun and this arose out of one of them.

    I am a big fan of a pun and this arose out of one of them.

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