To begin with I did a spider diagram for ideas to do with the word Mother.
I then thought about who this man/friend was, what were his interests, style so that I could get an idea of the style of tattoo he might like. I then decided how I would represent his Mother in a tattoo. I decided to choose her favourite things to represent her in tattoo form.
Her favourite things are stags, winter/snowflakes and trees. I also wanted to use brushlettering with the word Mum to make it more personal and also creative.
Tattoo Research:
I decided to go with the black and grey style of tattoo and practiced different ways of drawing the elements I wanted to include.
Thumbnails of tattoo layout ideas.
I played around with several compositions until I found one I felt worked the best.
Deer Reference:
Practicing brushlettering using Tom Bow pens.
Rough first line drawing.
This was my first line visual for my idea, I liked it overall but felt the stag needed to be more realistic for this design, so I looked for good stag reference photos (see link above)
I then decided to import my initial sketch into Procreate and then sketch over the top to get the detail I wanted.
So this is what I came up with after lots of trial and error. I am much happier with this one and so proceeded to start adding in detail.
I used a calligraphy brush tool to get most of the lines as I wanted a very precise look to it. I wanted lots of detail for the snowflakes and so added that to each one individually.
When it came time to put the detail into the stag I really struggled to know how to approach it. I tried using like an airbrush tool but it just didn't look right. I felt the line drawing of the stag was quite strong and so didn't want to take away from that. I then tried the stipple brush tool and found that to be perfect. I could add shading and highlights without it being too heavy.
This is the final tattoo design. I am really pleased with how it turned out, this was one of my favourite exercises and I really enjoyed all the drawing involved to get the design just right. I feel this exercise along with the book cover one has really helped me learn new skills on using Procreate, which is very new to me, but a skill I really wanted to learn.
My illustration also looks good small so would be ideal for a greeting card too.
Updates:
Greeting card mock up.
Body Mock up.
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