Marked Metal

Hey, hows things?

OK so this one is mainly based around my latest and by far greatest tattoo design to date, I've shown it already to a number of my college friends but now it's time for it to go up for everybody else to see the wonder (lol) of my artwork - TA DA!
Well? it's only a linear yeah but i personally think it's pretty good. The blank spots round the edges are where the skin is tearing or peeling away, showing the machinery inside.

This was requested by a friend of mine, Jamie, from work and he simply wanted a mechanical arms. I thought that just a mech arm would be too basic and essentially dull and boring as a tattoo so i discussed some things and we had agreed on it being where the skin tears, like a flesh wound, and under the skin you see the mechanics of his arm.

Once we had gotten the idea set out i began working on the initial sketch before outlining it - what you see here is a finished outline copy.

Tell me what you guys think and I'll be back soon with more sketches

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'Ink it's all over??

I'm back! Back from the dead, or rather the "drawing room" as i have renamed my bedroom since my tattoo art addiction has now gone insanely huge with people asking for me to design tattoos for them along with me still being a newbie at tattoo art.

I'll be honest, i don't quite know everything about sketching tattoos, the ones i have done are awesome but I've yet to spread my wings, as they say, and vary my work to all aspects of culture, religions, nationalities etc etc


Let's face it, I've only been sketching tattoo art about 4 or 5 months, I'm not too bad in my own view and in the view of some of my friends and relatives but essentially i have a long way to go.

I have decided to make this blog mainly (but not entirely) to do with my efforts to becoming a tattoo artist and I'll often post some of my designs up on here for all to see (i don't care how bad they are, I'll put them up and take whatever advice/abuse you have to give)

Well, I'm away just now to keep sketching, see you soon and I'll be sure to post a couple up next time around...

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Without a leg to stand on...

OK so i was another meeting at college today, ICT audit (like i knew what audits were) and it turned out to be cool, i got my lunch free, again, so i was fine, he he. Some good points were raise as well. We discussed the Sun Rays which we use in college every day we're in (so 3 days per week) such as performance (fail), media playability (fail) and memory usage (fail) so the organiser of the audit (well I'm assuming he organised it) had said he was gonna sort out these problems and resolve them which was a fairly decent result.

Also, on the way back from town today after the audit, my chair died! And yes, it was fully charged and all fine beforehand...it wasn't a case of forgetting to charge it or a loose wire, it ACTUALLY just died! like the battery had cut in the middle of city centre! I owe a mate of mine for getting me back to a taxi to go home but it was NOT fun at all! It's been away to get fixed and I'm now sorted with a new wiring, new batteries and a new control box so there should be no problems at all which essentially is awesomeness in a can but hell, lets not get too excited....

If anymore updates show, I'll check back

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I'm a rep, YAY

Ok so it's currently 18:38 and today was my first day at the college's board meetings, and it wasnt too bad actually. There was a lot of things going on in it, i'm not discussing it ALL here cause that'd be too long and frankly i cant be bothered, but it was good and i got 2 weeks til the next one.

Oh, plus i gave my friend that tattoo design he wanted, he seemed happy so i'm ok with that. I also got my mum's design complete too and she seems to love it (not sure whether she really does or whether she's saying that cause she's my mum, you know how parents are..)

I've got a good number of designs, not all like this, but i cant be bothered putting them all up yet...one day though! One day, they shall be posted.

Well, that's all for now, i'll check back again tomorrow.

Laters


PS
My mum's design, currently shown above ^

woohoo! work is over for the weekend!

OK so tonight is the night i make sure all my tattoo gear is up and ready for tomorrow, i got 1 finished to hand in plus i need to spy out good areas for my fliers which should be printed soon enough.

Oh! that reminds me, if anybody reading this (other than myself) wants a tattoo designed then just zap me an email at andyjbain96@hotmail.co.uk, I'll reply back as soon as i can with what the deal is with it. Currently I'm doing freebies but if my idea of a small business with it really flies, then i wont charge that much, honest!

Not considered pricing ideas yet but still, i swear down it wont be half your wallet full (unless your skint, then it may be your empty wallet i take)

Feel free to email me whenever you like or if you want a design done and sent to you. I need to run, I'm hungry and my belly doesn't like waiting... (fat jokes ignored)

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Day 2

OK so I'm just back from work and my brain has half melted through my ears from boredom - i mean DAM! the guys i work with are cool and all but...dude...i'm shocked I'm still alive from it all.

Anyways, just thought I'd post up about a few wee snippets of inside my head;

- Got a few new games this week; resident evil 5, Left 4 Dead (yeah i know, late start, so effing what) and also Conan (random buy, don't blame me)

- Got a few more ideas for tattoo designs, which will be going up in a folder soon, along with my current dozen doodles; coloured and black and grey sketches.

Really that's all i got right now, I'll check back later if i remember anything else.

Laters!

New Beginnings

WOOHOO! Ok, so the start of my blog. Hey, name's Andy. This whole blog will be all about, well, me! How lucky am i to have a whole blog about myself, as if living with me isn't bad enough i get to read about me too..fun!

Not too much going in this time, just a basic intro to the blog. In here you'll find all sorts of crap about me, my interests, my likes dislikes and despises (dislikes x 3 = despises).

Bon Appetit!