Major project development, designing the tattoos

 Taking into account the research from my last post I decided to do a brainstorm with the designs I should draw as tattoos on my model, here are some of these ideas:

• A butterfly as a central piece
• A scorpion
• A knife
• Two symmetrical branches with leaves
• A snake in the shoulder and around the arm
• Barbed wire around the other arm
• A grim reaper
• A few phrases in the area near the elbow, preferably in both arms and symmetrically
• A heart ( either the traditional shape or an anatomically correct one)
• A skull
• A rose
• An eye

I might not do all of these pieces or I may need more to fill in the model on each look, for which I could use the drawings I did on my free time some months ago.

Once again, I used Krita to draw. In a new, blank, document I decided to draw the first sketches of these tattoos to, later on, incorporate them onto the model by drawing them taking into account the shape of the body.  I used a 2048x2048 blank document in order to have more than enough space, with 300 dpi. Here are some process photos:

Creating the first piece

Filling the whole document

Arranging all of the pieces in the model