Tattoo Design – Live Client
visuals from the brief
What do I have to do?
I have recently been commissioned to design a full length body tattoo, I have been provided with a brief and visuals to work from – I have till the 16th of next month to design and develop the tattoo.
Where to begin?
I began by producing a statement of intent/client specification document in reference to the set brief. Here I simplified the material and clients desires into a condense inspiration guide to work alongside.
I began by printing out some templates to design on – I produced three designs to start off exploring flower sizes and tattoo structure.
Developing tattoo structure
Imagery Development
Inbetween designing structures and speaking with my client, I have been creating some motifs and small designs combining imagery and visuals from the brief. I have done this in a small sketchbook filling pages with my own original designs that can be incorporated into the tattoo structure.
Producing my own visuals and potential imagery from the visual brief.
Primary Research
I also thought it would be helpful to collect primary images of flowers and leaves to understand how they naturally fall and sit in an organic environment – I am very use to drawing from life rather than imagining something prefectly therefore this idea was very helpful in ensuring the design help organic and natural flow.
Designs A and B
I then created two lose designs based on the prefered strucutres, A and B. After speaking with my client on the phone, we decided to develop design B while involving the fullness of the lower leg in design A. To form my final designs I intended on using the general structure of B while using my imagery from my sketchbook and motifs to fill the areas that are most appropriate while filling in the gaps with ivy and leaves.
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