Live Brief – Page 6

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.

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Primary Research

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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.