COP3 - Tattoo image development & mockups

After I established a style I felt i needed to develop it further and try to think of how the style would work as an actual tattoo. I wanted to get away from designing on a computer so i decided to hand draw the tattoo designs after I printed them out.

These were the images I came up with which I feel could work well as tattoos. Ive tried to retain an organic element within the images to allow them to be more transferable as a tattoo but I've also tried to include geometric themes and shapes to retain the more contemporary side of the design. I also wanted to make each element of the images interchangeable so they could be moved around depending on the position and location of the tattoo when transferred onto skin. I feel keeping the colour and the theme consistent throughout the three images has enabled me to establish a style which I think works as a tattoo. The next step that I needed to do was to mock the images up onto skin to see how they would actually work.

This was a first attempt at mocking up the images, I played around with size and placement and also had to edit the image to make it sit on the skin and look like a realistic tattoo.

These are the final mock up images I created, I wanted to keep the model the same in each picture to bring some consistency throughout the mocked up images. I tried different placements and sizing within the images to see how they could look as a potential tattoo, just looking at the images you could see how this style of tattoo could sit amongst other tattoo styles. Im happy with the way this new style I created turned out, I feel I've shown that they could work as an actual tattoo. The style its self could be changed to cater for any client and I feel that the style coould work alongside other styles and not look too out of place.

As an additional element to the practical work I submitted I decided to draw the images onto transfer paper, the sort you would get in a tattoo shop that would have the design on ready to transfer onto a customers skin so that the artist can use the transferred lines as guides for the tattoo.

I flipped the images so that when you transferred the image it would be the right way round, this is particularly important when working with type. I also made a version where I deconstructed the image so you could change the placement of the elements of the tattoo to fir with different placements and to essentially tailor the tattoo for one specific person