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Showing posts with label Sailor Jerry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sailor Jerry. Show all posts
Friday, January 20, 2012
Spit Shading for real!
Well, I finally put some real ink to real paper with a real brush! He gave me black ink and red ink and said this was all I would need to get started. Of course I am a suck for color and went out a week later to buy 2 more colors and began mixing away! I got these images out of a Sailor Jerry book my friend brought over and stenciled them out. I will explain what that means soon!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Cut the Sh*p!
OK, I get it! I am not a landscape artist...yet! I just thought that every artist should be good at painting landscapes and real life, but I don't even really like to paint like that. I would love to sit in front of a building and make it look like a photograph on my canvas, but I'm not there yet. I like tattoo art, and I'm good at painting flash and why not just stick to what you're good at, right!? So, for all of you that missed my most talented flash pieces, they are back in full motion!
For this project, I decided I was going to do 3 different attempts at the same piece of art: acrylic, liquid water color and spit shading of Sailor Jerry's "homeward" flash piece. (pictured above)
My first painting is acrylic, I first sketched the piece with pencil lightly to get the ship where I wanted it. Next, I went dark to light, starting with the water, then the top of the ship downwards. I would like to share that acrylic without water in it drys extremely fast! I mixed blue and brown together to get the darkest color. I then used blue on top of it, followed by blue mixed with WHITE!!!! Yes, I went out and bought white acrylic because I was sick and tired of using 5 colors to make a picture! So, the sky blue followed by yellow to highlight the wood and brass.
Next, I threw some white on some areas to try and pop out the sails, ship bow, brass on top, masts, etc... The flag came out like garbage, but believe it or not, the flag was not really my main focus. I cared more about the stupid seagulls than the flag! Also, I thought it would make the waves pop if I used my shiny silver sharpie ... ummm, in the sun it sort of sparkles and does it, but not in the evening time (so, mixed media piece?).
Lastly, I took out my watercolor sharpie and went over the drawing to give it more of the tattoo vibe. Overall, I am pretty proud of it, compared to my other acrylic pieces!
Onward, to my preferential media, watercolor! As always, I lightly drew the ship and water and even the seagulls. From light to dark, yellow, dark yellow, watered down blue (sky blue), light blue, dark blue, red, brown, black. I love the way the wood on the ship turned out, it fades from dark to light very well. The waves are even pretty fun. I like having the U-shaped cut on the bottom of the piece, instead of it looking like I am attempting to paint an actual scene. The red sunset pops the ship much more and I tried a little more to help out the flag.
Finally, let's get down to what I know how to do and what is going to make this ship look like Sailor Jerry himself did it - Spit Shading with watercolor! I made some tea and painted the paper with 3 coats to get the paper more antique brown. By the way, this paper is the cheap paper, not thick, and not as good quality as the other (ran out).
Then I penciled down the image (for the third time!) and threw it in my work bag. I brought a water dish, paint tray, black, red, yellow and a napkin and painted this during my lunch hour. From yellow to red to black. Also, I did not trace this with sharpie; I painted the outline with my brush. Took about an hour and a half to do the whole piece.
The trick with spit shading (for me) is to put the solid black down, clean your brush, then pull the paint outwards and it should become lighter. When your brush gets dry, use your spit to get a really controlled amount of water on your brush. You don't want water globs on a light painting like this! I tried to get the flag to look a little better... whatever, stupid flag! I think the water came out kinda cool with all of the different blacks giving a rippling effect.
I asked my painting amigo how to fade the sails better, she said that gradation is the most studied and practiced part of watercolor and acrylic and there is no super special trick. She gave me a tip which I will share. Fill with water (from your brush) the area you want to be the color, then dip your brush in paint and dab the water in spots and it should move to the corners and fade by itself... haven't tried it, just sharing the wisdom! Let me know how it works.
By the way,
I used a #3 brush for acrylic and it took an hour to paint
I used a #3 and #1 brush for the first watercolor and it took an hour or so
I used a #1 brush for the spit shading and it took about an hour and a half.
My new insights are:
"Take your time, the final product will come. The most fun is not so much looking at your finished piece as it is dreaming of what it looks like with every little stroke and dab of paint."
"Don't be afraid to try something different, it is just paper, you can always make more, who knows, it may be awesome!"
"Fading, shading, gradating, whatever you want to call it, is freakin' hard to do!"
"Flags are dumb, don't include them in your paintings unless you want them to look worse!"
For this project, I decided I was going to do 3 different attempts at the same piece of art: acrylic, liquid water color and spit shading of Sailor Jerry's "homeward" flash piece. (pictured above)
My first painting is acrylic, I first sketched the piece with pencil lightly to get the ship where I wanted it. Next, I went dark to light, starting with the water, then the top of the ship downwards. I would like to share that acrylic without water in it drys extremely fast! I mixed blue and brown together to get the darkest color. I then used blue on top of it, followed by blue mixed with WHITE!!!! Yes, I went out and bought white acrylic because I was sick and tired of using 5 colors to make a picture! So, the sky blue followed by yellow to highlight the wood and brass.
Next, I threw some white on some areas to try and pop out the sails, ship bow, brass on top, masts, etc... The flag came out like garbage, but believe it or not, the flag was not really my main focus. I cared more about the stupid seagulls than the flag! Also, I thought it would make the waves pop if I used my shiny silver sharpie ... ummm, in the sun it sort of sparkles and does it, but not in the evening time (so, mixed media piece?).
Lastly, I took out my watercolor sharpie and went over the drawing to give it more of the tattoo vibe. Overall, I am pretty proud of it, compared to my other acrylic pieces!
Onward, to my preferential media, watercolor! As always, I lightly drew the ship and water and even the seagulls. From light to dark, yellow, dark yellow, watered down blue (sky blue), light blue, dark blue, red, brown, black. I love the way the wood on the ship turned out, it fades from dark to light very well. The waves are even pretty fun. I like having the U-shaped cut on the bottom of the piece, instead of it looking like I am attempting to paint an actual scene. The red sunset pops the ship much more and I tried a little more to help out the flag.
Finally, let's get down to what I know how to do and what is going to make this ship look like Sailor Jerry himself did it - Spit Shading with watercolor! I made some tea and painted the paper with 3 coats to get the paper more antique brown. By the way, this paper is the cheap paper, not thick, and not as good quality as the other (ran out).
Then I penciled down the image (for the third time!) and threw it in my work bag. I brought a water dish, paint tray, black, red, yellow and a napkin and painted this during my lunch hour. From yellow to red to black. Also, I did not trace this with sharpie; I painted the outline with my brush. Took about an hour and a half to do the whole piece.
The trick with spit shading (for me) is to put the solid black down, clean your brush, then pull the paint outwards and it should become lighter. When your brush gets dry, use your spit to get a really controlled amount of water on your brush. You don't want water globs on a light painting like this! I tried to get the flag to look a little better... whatever, stupid flag! I think the water came out kinda cool with all of the different blacks giving a rippling effect.
I asked my painting amigo how to fade the sails better, she said that gradation is the most studied and practiced part of watercolor and acrylic and there is no super special trick. She gave me a tip which I will share. Fill with water (from your brush) the area you want to be the color, then dip your brush in paint and dab the water in spots and it should move to the corners and fade by itself... haven't tried it, just sharing the wisdom! Let me know how it works.
By the way,
I used a #3 brush for acrylic and it took an hour to paint
I used a #3 and #1 brush for the first watercolor and it took an hour or so
I used a #1 brush for the spit shading and it took about an hour and a half.
My new insights are:
"Take your time, the final product will come. The most fun is not so much looking at your finished piece as it is dreaming of what it looks like with every little stroke and dab of paint."
"Don't be afraid to try something different, it is just paper, you can always make more, who knows, it may be awesome!"
"Fading, shading, gradating, whatever you want to call it, is freakin' hard to do!"
"Flags are dumb, don't include them in your paintings unless you want them to look worse!"
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Water Color Pencils!!
Well, I had no idea when someone hinted that i should try using water color pencils
instead of tubes that it would create this type of difference! I am so pleased with the results. I am finally starting to get the look I have been striving for. This is the same picture but with he pencils you can get more detail in without blurring up the whole image. I didn't outline the girl
the second time but as you can see, the outline really makes
the image pop!
For my next piece I really wanted to get that old school "tattoo flash image" look. I think it came out pretty cool.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Tattoo Paintings
I finally felt up to drawing some serious tattoo style painting. I felt these were some classic images. I got them from a "book of tattoos". Once again, i had a problem with the background. I did the blue first, but I tried to steer around the outlines because the color was so dark, i didn't want it to affect the color of everything else i would paint over it. I ended up messing up the picture by putting way too much blue on the blade of the sword.
I got this book called "Tattoo Bible vol. 2" and it is awesome, so many great images. I wanted to zoom in on this gypsie and just capture her head and put a flower behind her to add some depth. I also did 2 new things. One, I painted the background with old coffee which was supposed to give a cool "old" look to it, but the coffee wasn't black enough. Two, I spent alot of time layering, especially with her scarf on her head and her hair.
I tried once again to make a Koi Fish, much better attempt than my first one! I did alot of layering, no background first, I just went with light to dark. I love the colors of the water and that Japanese water came out great.
My mom always said i need to draw religious images, so this painting is dedicated to her. Our Lady of Guadalupe. I didn't put a thick outline around her, i'm not sure if that was a mistake or not, but she doesn't pop very much. The background rays came out very cool. The layering on her clothes took forever!
This painting is awesome! I poured a bunch of coffee grounds into a cup with water and heated it up. you cant see it too well in this picture, but I layered the coffee 3 times and let it dry each time. It is a great trick, you just need extreme black coffee! I think this picture really captures that old school "sailor Jerry" tattoo style, which is what i was going for.
I got this book called "Tattoo Bible vol. 2" and it is awesome, so many great images. I wanted to zoom in on this gypsie and just capture her head and put a flower behind her to add some depth. I also did 2 new things. One, I painted the background with old coffee which was supposed to give a cool "old" look to it, but the coffee wasn't black enough. Two, I spent alot of time layering, especially with her scarf on her head and her hair.
I tried once again to make a Koi Fish, much better attempt than my first one! I did alot of layering, no background first, I just went with light to dark. I love the colors of the water and that Japanese water came out great.
My mom always said i need to draw religious images, so this painting is dedicated to her. Our Lady of Guadalupe. I didn't put a thick outline around her, i'm not sure if that was a mistake or not, but she doesn't pop very much. The background rays came out very cool. The layering on her clothes took forever!
This painting is awesome! I poured a bunch of coffee grounds into a cup with water and heated it up. you cant see it too well in this picture, but I layered the coffee 3 times and let it dry each time. It is a great trick, you just need extreme black coffee! I think this picture really captures that old school "sailor Jerry" tattoo style, which is what i was going for.
Tattoo Style Drawing
My fist attempt at a rose and Japanese clouds (which are very hard to draw!)
A Skull (dedicated to the brothers of SOS)
A Rose (after much more shading practice) and ball point outline
Sparrow
I always wanted to draw a Koi Fish, also my first attempt at drawing water. This image came out of a "history of tattooing" book, this was tattooed on a old Japanese guy
I did this dragon without looking at my paper almost, i just followed my hand with my eyes as I stared at the picture because there were so many lines. I love this dragon head. My wife insisted I stop stretch my ability and make my own dragon body... not too good!
Sitting outside one day, felt colorful and copied a bird, then just decided to sketch around it. people like this one!
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