Gsouder;70657 wrote:
Keep in mind that I am not an artist…but…. This drawing you have is of A leg, not YOUR leg. Meaning, you leg is going to be a different shape/size/thinkness with all of the individual things that make YOUR leg unique. Look at the tattoo in my album (I have it finished now but don’t have a good photo yet). It fits into my…[Read more]

I’m afraid you’ve lost me rather, but I’d really like to understand what you mean by ‘not drawn for the place it’s going to go’.
On both my planned pieces so far, I’ve tried to use an image of the body part as shape reference and guidelines, but by the sounds of it that didn’t work here. Can you give me any clues why it’s off?

(As for running…[Read more]

Completely different style to what I was originally intending, but:
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Jlin: Nice to get a bit of confirmation on that, the top left was probably my favourite too, though I’m keeping 3 in mind. xD
Time to neaten it up and keep saving >.<

Thanks so much to everyone for the advice 🙂

If you really don’t like the idea of something large, how about having something more parasitic-looking than interior? I’m no biomech artist, but the idea interested me, so here’s a rough-ish version based on yours that you might be interested in:

Messing around landed me with:

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…[Read more]

Doesn’t help that never having drawn a tattoo before, I’ve no real idea how to colour one.
Best attempt (not particularly neat, that’s easy to fix):

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…[Read more]