I recently spent a day in a tattoo design class. The sketches on the left are some initial playing with ideas, the one on the right was roughly drawn on an actual arm*, to get the proper non-flat shape. That outline was then copied onto plastic and then traced back on paper for some refining.
A3 pencil
* It was the tutor’s arm. It’s a dedicated tutor who takes their shirt off to allow students to draw on him in felt pen!
A while back I ran away from a twentymumble-year corporate career to be a feckless art student. Since then I've dirtied my hands with, metaphorically and/or literally, bronze and ceramic sculpture, photography, and digital and traditional illustration. Mask making was one discovery, dovetailing with my interests in teaching and performing improvised theatre.
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