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happy Chinese new year!

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a morning full of birds, practicing using different pens, including brush pens

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Studies from the book "cats of Japan"

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using pen again, so much fun! I really enjoy drawing animals

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Happy 2025 ! some drawings!

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Another crack at it then! I am slowly going through the book, and I had a lot of excitement when I turned to a page and it had a panther on it. Now, I love cats. In fact, i completely adore cats… so I immediately after i had a pop at the panthers and the snake, i really wanted to use what I learnt and make my own rough designs sticking to the traditional style. I can defiantly see that II have a lot to learn still, both fundamentally and in a design sense. But I think going on this mini side quest was something that I needed.

While I am at my mind numbing job all I can think about is what designs would look cool, or how I can improve… I will keep trying my best.

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Here is my attempts for today! My goal when I sat down today was to 1. Replicate the book, try and follow the design in the book and understand the style 2. Design something using the original as inspiration. However I think you can tell which one was the original from the book, and which one was my crappy design! However, I will power on and continue to do my best. I want to try and do some traditional pieces soon as I am itching to pick up my pen and ink. I think when using digital it’s really easy to be careless and rely on the eraser tool. However, tattooing is making a permanent mark on someone’s body, and using pen and ink is what I find closest to making permanent marks on the page, however I do have a habit of spilling blobs of ink all over the page…

I want to continue to study this traditional style of tattoos and to be able to come up with my own version of a flash sheet with designs in this style. I really enjoyed drawing the crying hearts! But then again, I love portraits.

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Long time no see…. Tumblr..

I was wanting to start a blog to try and organise my thoughts, and to try and document my art journey to hold myself accountable. After downloading blogspot, and then being asked to pay a fee for trying to upload an image onto my post.. I decided to look around at what other blog sites I could use. And that’s when I saw it, almost like an old friend… Tumblr.. Now I used to use tumblr before I was even old enough to make an account , and would always cringe at the ‘old people’ (over 20’s) using the site to blurt out their emotions, and that I was the coolest with my anime blog. And now, I am one of the old people I used to cringe at. This all primarily be used to shout into an endless void, however if anyone happens to stumble upon this, I hope you can cheer me on, or even offer critique!

It has been a dream for a while to become a tattoo artist, I have always loved to draw I mean dang- I got a masters degree in art. But life throws curve balls sometimes and things don’t always go to plan. After returning to the UK and finding my feet again, I am ready to jump back into art. I soon plan to quit my miserable job at the gas station and find my self a tattoo apprenticeship! Drawing Is my life line and the past year since my return II have been swept off my feet and carried so far away from art drawing feels so much more rewarding then it ever has.

To be able to get an apprenticeship I know I need to understand and to practice a range of tattoo styles, at the moment I am currently studying the book “how to draw tattoos”. This way of learning art is so far removed from my training in concept art where I first learnt fundamentals that I almost feel awkward. It is almost reminiscent of using drago art when I was 11. However it does feel refreshing to draw like this again. I am, still, studying the fundamentals and practicing traditional techniques on the side. But this is, my first attempt at traditional style. I am starting to understand the foundations on which this style has came to be. There is such a nice balance of straight lines and smooth, curved lines, which builds such a beautiful gesture despite this style having a lot of symmetry. I think going forward I need to be more straight with my line weights. I am not used to using procreate and feel like it is a big learning curve just getting used to this program. I am much more acquainted with programs such as photoshop and clip studio paint and use a screen tablet, however I am trying to be as portable as possible so while I am still working my miserable gas station job I can at least study and practice in quiet times and my breaks.