Minggu, 29 Mei 2011

New maori tattoo gallery optimized for Ipad and Iphone

Hi,I recently bought an Apple Ipad2 and use it mainly for shooting pictures and recording movies of the design process. I can easily add these photos to my twitter messages (@storm3d) and upload the movies to Youtube.com in a few clicks. It's also very usefull for quickly browsing the web...There's only one big downside to Apple products, and that's the fact that Apple doesn't support the Adobe

Jumat, 27 Mei 2011

Tattoo pictures of a "Cesc Fabregas" inspired elbow tattoo

Hi,Yesterday one of my customers (thanks Ruairi! :)) showed me some pictures of his new tattoo that I sketched a few months ago. The tatoo design is inspired by the elbow tattoo of the Arsenal soccer player Cesc Fabregas, and is in a graphical polynesian style.The original high quality flash design that I made looks like this:It has a shark tooth, some kind of an eye and other repetitive

Kamis, 26 Mei 2011

Extension shoulder tattoo in Polynesian mixed style

Hi,Last year I created a half sleeve tattoo in polynesian style for a Dutch customer. It's a bit of a mixed tribal style, it has some stylized flowers and other repetitive shapes:Unfortunately the tattoo artist applied the stencil too small, so it now needs some extensions.I marked the upper shoulder part that had to be inked.I created a basic sketch and once it was approved I finalized it. To

Senin, 23 Mei 2011

Tribal tattoo mask design polynesian style

Hi,A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from the company "Paddle Republic", a surf/fitness school in the Key West, Florida.Their design studio had come up with a polynesian mask logo, but it needed some adjustment, especially on the mask, because it was a design from a stock library. I was asked to redraw the (tattoo)mask with an original Maori inspired touch to it.This is the logo from their

Rabu, 18 Mei 2011

Maori kneeband tattoo design

Hi!Here are the pictures my latest project, a kneeband tattoo in Maori/Kirituhi style. The tatoo wraps around the upper leg, just above the knee.It has some Samoan and polynesian elements, but mainly consists of Koru tribal designs, filled with small detailed shapes.First I made a basic layout with flowing curves and added some rows of arrowheads:Then I filled the tattoo with polynesian and