Hokay, I’m very new to the process of getting a tattoo, if not the concept.
I’ve been working on/off over the last couple of years to try and find something I want, and I think I’ve finally come up with something I like:
It’s clearly incomplete, but before I spend any more time on completing it, I’d like to have some suggestions at to whether it’s a viable (or sane) design. All that really needs doing is filling in the dragon and cleaning up/editing the branches, as is.
Also, if I were to take this to a tattoo artist with no expectation of any further design work needing to be done on their part, what would I need? I believe I’d need outlines, which I can still provide given I’ve been drawing on layers, but is there anything else?
(Any further suggestions as to the design itself, ie additions or areas to work on would also be most gratefully recieved)
((In case of any interest, the design is centred around the norse creation myth – the tree is the Ash Yggdrasil, the dragon Niddhogg))
(((Yeah, just realised I put this in the wrong subforum, apologies, I read ‘tattoo designs’ and didn’t scroll down further. Great start here xD )))
wow. excellent drawing, what kinda colors are you looking to do one it? it would look sick with bright blue/green/orange.
the base looks rather…incomplete….I’m not sure what your trying to make it look like..broken glass maybe?
good progress though, cant wait to see this transfer to ink!
Fingers crossed this latest version will clear up what’s going on at the bottom, or else I have a lot more work to do, heh.
As for colour, I wasn’t planning on getting any really (I have light skin, black will show up very well).
If I were to, I was more thinking along the lines of brown/green/gold (and probably red on the dragon), I wouldn’t know how to put bright colours into something like that xD ((That and for my sins, being a student, it’s going to take me a good while to save up the rest of what I’m likely to need to get it done))
Before the colors it was really difficult for me to make out the dragon, especially the wings, I must admit. Have you thought about putting the dragon a bit more in the focus? Maybe make it a bit larger?
Just a suggestion, overall I love the piece, I think it’s a great design! I really like the colours, too, the yellow brown and green work well together. Not too sure about the red though… Feels like you are compensating for the dragon not being so in the focus by making it bright red, I don’t know how to explain it, sorry.
Jlin: Niddhogg is usually depicted as red, but I can see what you mean, it does look awkward. I’m going to mess around with colours a bit and see what I can do, maybe put up a few smaller images of different versions.
Poesy: I could probably compensate for the lack of perspective by amping up the greyscale shading. I like that idea a lot.
Back to the drawing board! (Literally 😮 )
Top left: The dark red looks a lot nicer imo and goes better with the other colors.
Top right: Leaving the dragon uncolored while the rest is colored makes it stand out less than if it’s colored in too. May also look a bit unfinished, because people might think that you still have to get the dragon colored in?
Bottom left: Dragon has my attention first, the rest feels more like background and is not identified so easily.
Bottom right: Personally don’t like the two colors in the dragon, can’t really put my finger on it but not my thing.
I think I’d go full color 🙂 You have a lot of detail in the piece which just gets a bit lost if it’s all B & G imo.
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