drawn for a gocko print competition
Author: robblackburn
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cosina ct1G entirely with sunny 16
The neverending job of sorting out photos and I came across this reel I shot back in April 2023. Shot on an inherited Cosina ct1G entirely with sunny 16 (basically guessing) came out with these really nicely contrasty images. Self dev in Bellini monobath.
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Tattoo tiger
I created this tiger in procreate and then my old water bottles paint was chipping off, so an idea was born… Two colours spray paint and then a bit of acrylic painting. Had to under paint in white because the blue is such a strong colour.
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Aflo the poet
Here’s the final scan of a portrait of the fantastic Aflo the Poet. The photo was from the fab Draw Brighton. I drew this in ink and pro markers with a hint of white ink on heavyweight water colour paper. I really enjoyed this and it’s sort of a preliminary for a larger watercolour piece.
There is so much I got wrong here. I am not sure why I cannot take the time and get the under drawing and proportions right. You’d think I would learn patience by now!
For this I sketched it in non-photo blue pencil and then inked in my sketchbook. Then I scanned it and transferred it on to watercolour paper with a light pad. Something changed with the proportions when I scanned it and it got a bit larger for some reason.
