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.

Advanced Colored Pencil

After getting tired of water coloring i went back to colored penciling to try and learn more about lighting and shading. I was looking at a "fantasy water, land and sky creatures" book and it had pictures of these fish, so i made a scene and colored it. Someone told me outlining things with a prominent color used will pop the image more, so that's what i did. I sort of looks like all the fish are electric!

This image came to me one night when my wife was a week past her due date sleeping on our couch at like 10 at night. I just kept thinking of our little girl and wanted to draw what i saw in my mind. I had the book i mentioned above, the angel's outfit and wings came from that.


This is a picture i have always wanted to capture on paper, the end of "the end times". When St. Michael finally kills Satan! Mary is praying to the side. I used the book above to inspire St. Michael and Mary, but was still my own.



My newest drawing right now is this frog, so cool! i didn't want to paint him, i felt i could capture him better with pencil.

Nature and Animals

I had a great book on how to sketch with graphite pencils.

Then I tried to experiment with ball point pen

Wanted to try and draw reflections on the water

My personal favorite of my nature drawings, using ball point and graphite pencils

CAT

This was in a "history of tattoos" book, but it was a realistic tiger drawing

Sea Horse

I thought this martini glass came out amazing, it re-motivated me to keep going

I finally got colored pencils and tried learning at square one, how to draw a circle and apple