Hunger Games Tattoos: Sketchbook Friday

Every few months my mind needs to purge these navajo/mayan semi-symmetrical designs. After seeing Hunger Games: Catching Fire I just had to race home and pour out a few designs. Each one of these could be more fully developed and colored into glorious designs. For the meantime, the Hunger Games inspired pendants, including that casino-esque kitty in the bottom left corner are only destined to live in my sketchbook. However, in the past these designs have gotten more fully developed and even turned into tattoos. Often these designs make great ink. Check out Chloey Arts's tattoo of one of three of my designs she has added to her body:

Also make sure to check out Chloey Arts on Facebook and see all of her awesome work there. She is also a drummer, and an awesome person.

Each Friday at noon I scan in one new sketch or drawing from one of my many sketchbooks. Many times my sketches are ideas for larger projects that you might find on my fine art website William Hessian dot com, or as projects right here on my Bearded Bunny art blog. If you enjoy these sketches make sure to also see all of the sketchbook friday posts.

My Parliament of Owls

A possible tattoo.

Sketchbook Friday: Signets and Tattoos

I like tattoos. I think they are cool. I always admire them on other people skin. Wondering if I would admire it as much on my own skin. Sometimes my sketches are random tattoo designs. Tribal logos, or signets. I spend a little time thinking about these drawings on my skin, and often use a sharpie or henna to do a practice run. In the end, nothing is exactly right, and therefore i never pull the trigger. Therefore, I still have no ink. Maybe I never will. The sketches above are useful as logos for other projects like the fantasy story I have written, or other designs and larger paintings. Which of the designs do you think would make the most compelling tattoo? Maybe none of them will be your answer, and I will understand completely.
Each Friday at noon I scan in one new sketch or drawing from one of my many sketchbooks. Many times my sketches are ideas for larger projects that you might find on my fine art website William Hessian dot com, or as projects right here on my Bearded Bunny art blog. If you enjoy these sketches make sure to also see my Favorite 20 sketches from 2011 or go back and check out all of the sketchbook friday posts.

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Huge Skull Tattoo

Tattoo

I never had the stomach to consider becoming a tattoo artist. Needles creep me out, and I have very little interest in inflicting pain as a profession. However, I've always admired those that do. I think its a very valuable and worthwhile artform, and like all art forms there are good and bad tattoos.

Candy

In one of my recent ebay sales, a fan named Candy purchased some of my art. I also got to meet her in Jamestown, ND during of my artist in residences. Over the next year she purchased a drawing of a skull with a flower dress on. She asked me if it was alright if she got the drawing tattooed on her body. I've been asked similar things before and most people never go through with the tattoo. I said yes to Candy....and as you can see in the image above....she went through with it.

Bear

Barry "Bear" Culbertson out of North DAkota is the talented tattoo artist that took my drawing and applied it to her skin. He did a really impressive job on a very detailed ink drawing. I find the act of reproducing the image with such skill a much larger accomplishment than my drawing. It is very satisfying to see my image done with such high quality.



Test Tube Girl

The very first of my images to appear on someone's skin permanantly was my Test Tube Babies on Barista Heather's calf out of Minneapolis. She was a big fan of my test tube babies and decided to plant the art on her calf. Recently, a large black border has been added to the work, which helps magnify the colors. See more pictures on my collectors page.

Creature Tattoos

I'm still waiting for someone to come forward asking to get tattoos of my creature drawings. A masked hornet, an ocotpus kitty angel or a lym dragon would look damn fine on skin I reckon. See more the creatures here

See also my erotic art interview and a picture of what happens when Body Painting Goes Bad