Hi!I promised to tell you something about one of my latest tattoo projects, so here it is.Normally my main part of designs consists of shoulder pieces, but for this design a customerasked me to do a shoulder AND chest piece in one.It's really tricky to get it all on a flat sheet of paper, so I needed some sort of body template.The tattoo only covered the outer side of the left arm (from shoulder to elbow) and the left pectoral muscle.My customer used a sheet of tracing paper and simple traced the shape of his body. The total template looked like this:The design had to be maori style and have some nice flowing curles/koru. First I drew the outlines of the maori shapes:Then I filled the shapes with some traditional lines, triangles and other tribal design stuff.I take pictures of the design with my Canon EOS 400D and send these photos to the customer. It's a lot quicker than scanning it, because it is on A3 size paper.The final design is ofcourse scanned in high resolution.Here are a few shots of the tattoo sketch in progress.I just received a comment from the customer, that he wants the fills a bit more intricate, instead of the traditional tattoo lines.So I'll get back to you soon with an adjusted tattoo design.Kind regards, Mark
