When a female has decided to get a tattoo coping with the pain is the easy part, picking a design that will speak to her soul but also make her feel sexy is the real trick. Many woman have no idea what to get a tattoo of much less how getting the right tattoo design will positively effect that tattoo start or flower designs along the lower back.
This is my newest contribution for The Circuit Magazine to accompany part 3 of 3 articles on the history of sniping. After staying relatively loyal to the concept for the first 2 articles I got slightly more adventurous for this one, as you can see. Although the weapon is the British Army's L96A1 sniper rifle!
Anyhow, I just thought I'd post a few shots in progress of my process for creating this piece to accompany the ScreenCast I recorded of the illustration (which you can see on youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojPjantpr5Q )
Step 1 - Initial concept thumbnail.
After playing around with a few poses I decided to keep as much relevance to the subject and article as possible (considering the lack of it in the character) I went with the traditional prone position but still wanted to emphasise the characters seductive curves, which brings the focus directly onto the buttocks!
Step 2 - Defining the Character
Next I decided I wanted an exotic looking female and used photo reference of beautiful curvy women of Caribbean origin. and penciled out my idea and scanned it into photoshop at 600dpi before reducing it to 300 at the painting stage. Notice, I don't really go over board on the sketch and prefer to build it up as I progress through the painting stage.
Step 3 - Colour Flats
Using the pen tool to create selections of anatomy and accessories I fill them all with the paint bucket tool and keep th
em on independent layers to give me greatest flexibility later on.
In addition I paint in a rough background to link it together and in preparation for choice of light direction.
Step 4 - Airbrushing
Using the selections I'd made earlier by keeping all opposing areas on separate layers I use a large, soft edged brush at a low opacity to first apply shadows and then highlights to pinpoint light direction and start to brin
g depth to the illustration.
Step 5 - Background
I now decide its time to build up the background and I virtually spin it around and paint it in reverse to the original concept. Again using the pen tool to build the basic structures and then an airbrush to lay colour and light direction down fast before using a more hard edged brush to add some texture. I also work in some accessories such as the goggles on the helmet, the drink, dossier, bino's and ammo tin.
Step 6 - Fine details/finishing touches
I finish off the painting by adding a few layers of a deep bronzing, orangey colour to the flesh areas. I paint in shadows, foreground foliage, slightly alter the expression and finally add some highly effective camouflage paint to her skin. Now she's hot and ready for action.
Acquire, Aim, Squeeze, Kill, Mojito to go!
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A woman's anatomy is consistently an art. She has been the accountable of so abounding works of art aback man has apparent painting and sculpture. Boom is additionally an art, arguably so. Art has consistently been about self-expression. What bigger way than for assertive blazon of artisan to accurate it on a alive canvass, the skin?
Most women adopt boom designs which are baby and sexy. Best acclaimed of these designs are the star, butterfly, chaplet beads, and angel wings, roses amidst by acid wire, vines, allegorical creatures and added floral designs. The best accepted locations for women to accept tattoos are the wrist, ankle, aback of the neck, abreast the abdomen button and the lower back.
The application for boom adjustment is if it is partially exposed. There is article absorbing about seeing article partially hidden to accessible eye. It is for this acumen that the best accepted atom for women to get active is the lower back.
Although adequate communities accept yet to embrace tattooed women as the norm, the abstraction is boring accepting acceptance. Finally, boom is no best the access for cocky announcement of lesbians, gangs and added agitator group. Celebrities who accept accommodating advocates are arch the beginning as boom enthusiasts. Even admitting these celebrities are not announcement anatomy markings, still their absolute activity has afflicted accessible assessment for boom as adequate self-expression. Truly, tattooing is no best a man's world.
The trouble child star can't really seem to catch a break now a days and several people are just waiting for her to have another melt down. Well since Lindsay and her girlfriend of nearly two years broke up Lindsay thought it would be appropriate to make the occasion with some fresh ink. It is being reported that Lindsay along with her younger sister, Ali Lohan walked into Shamrock Social Club tattoo parlor in Los Angeles at around midnight on April 8, 2009. Lindsay and Ali emerged a little later and word on the street is that Lindsay got some fresh ink on her wrist. However, the design that she got has not been released yet. This is the same tattoo parlor Lindsay and her new BFF Lily Allen go their matching Shhh... tattoos.
If you recall Lindsay Lohan also has a tattoo a matching tattoo with old girlfriend Samantha Ronson. Linsday has a small little red star on her hand. It's nothing to noticeable or wild and crazy but Lindsay has been open about the reason she got this tattoo. Which is for all the wrong reasons. Lindsay got this tattoo because Samantha has several star tattoos on her arm and she wanted to get it to get like her.
This is yet another prime example of not getting making tattoos of a lover or coping a lover's tattoo. Tattoos are forever and unfortunately most relationships are not. However, if you must get a tattoo to mark your relationship with someone it is best to get some kind of imaginary tattoo done rather than a name.