Category: Live Client- Tattoo Design

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Tattoo Design: Developing Finals

After producing up to 15 designs over all, I was able to evolve and develop my design and produce two new finalised pieces for my client. I had previously created a range of ideas to ensure my client had lots of option and was able to interact with my practice as it went, however the designs needed to be fuller around the lower leg/ankle as it will be covering up a scar, I will edit my designs and continue developing the final designs.

Final Design One

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Final Design Two

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Tattoo Design

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

I had sent of the previous 3 designs while continuing to play and explore development. I created up to six more ideas playing around with design, structure and detail to make sure my client had lots of option.  After meeting with my client, I was notified that her prefered designs were one and three therefore I turned my focus onto developing a design inspired by these structures.

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

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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.