Hi,It has been a while, but I just finished a nice tattoo piece. It's a design for the shoulderblade and back.My customer wanted to cover quite some skin, with nice Maori Kirituhi shapes and some Samoan patterns.First I made a template from the measurements I received, and started sketching:I really enjoy to make the first basic koru shapes, this gives the tattoo a nice flow and "cuts" the large template into smaller pieces that can be filled with other intricate patterns, like triangles, spearheads and repetitive lines.Once the basic layout is set, I move on to the next fase.My client asked for some Samoan patterns, which are mainly formed by even lines filled with very detailed shapes (upper left side of the tatoo):In the centre of the pencil sketch I drew a row of arrowheads and triangles, but I removed it later as you can see in the completed sketch:The final high resolution image was traced with a black felt-tip marker and scanned.After optimizing it and creating a linedrawing I sent it to my customer.Kind regards, Mark Storminfo@storm3d.comwww.storm3d.com
