Angger Gwe: September 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Printable shoulder tattoo designs in Maori Kiri tuhi style

Hi,

In my webshop I sell high resolution printable tattoo designs.
Once a tattoo image is ordered, I send a high res image to the customer and he/she can print it or send it to his/her tattoo artist. All designs are scanned at 300 dpi resolution and can be scaled to any size you wish.

The tatoos I make are all handdrawn on A3 size printing paper. I start with a rough outline of the design with a pencil and add some Kirituhi ferns and shapes. Along the process the patterns are added, lines, triangles, dots, and so on.

When the pencil design is completed, I trace the tatoo with a black fibre tip marker and erase all pencil lines. The drawing is scanned in high resolution and optimized, erasing dust, little smudges etc.

I wanted to highlight one of the tatoos from my portfolio, so you can see how a full size design looks. The design is nr 140 in my shoulder gallery. The highlighted area is also shown at 100% (click the image for real-size) and you see the linedrawing.

high resolution tribal tattoo designs to print

maori tattoo linedrawing high resolution image

(If you wish to get this particular design, you can order here and pay with your Paypal account or your creditcard.)

I will be working on an extension for shoulder tattoo 143 and maybe a nice forearm tattoo design, so just get back soon.

Regards, Mark Storm

Body Painting - Bra - Series #2

Photo of body painting of a blue bra on a middle-aged woman.

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*Body Painting - Bra - Series #1

DSquared2 combined Camp with Ramp for Spring 2010 at MFW

The spring/summer 2010 collections previewed on runway at Milan Fashion Week’s last day spoke of happy colors, easy styles, and lots of sensuality. And best example for this is the DSquared2 campsite.

The curtain parted at Dsquared2 to reveal a woodsy scene, completed with pair of tents lit by chandeliers and mirrors propped against the trees. Camp is always an element at Dan and Dean Caten’s shows, but for Spring, twins took the camping theme quite literally.

known for their fun-loving styles, twin designers put together the perfect outfit for city-slicker camper. Distressed pair of jeans shorts, boy scout shirt decorated with badges and a baseball cap were among the basic looks. Trousers were slightly oversized in bright plasticized fabrics worn with an ‘I love camping’ sweat shirt with the Canadian maple leaf.

Cutoff shorts, tees, and jean jackets came tarted up with sky-high neon patent-leather platform booties and gray hiking socks, tweaked with plastic coverings – a better way to stay dry in wild.

The latter in collection included a cropped butterscotch leather jacket and a color-blocked parka. Collection was as usual was full of fun packed in bright colors.

Guerlain Idylle ~ A new romantic fragrance by Thierry Wasser

Thierry Wasser the perfumer, has created a very new fragrance for Guerlain, it’s called Idylle. Idylle means love or a dream of it. It generally refers to a poetic genre that in Greek Antiquity sang amours and erotic encounters of a shepherd boy and girl in an archaic setting.

Olfactorily, Idylle is a perfume that unfolds it’s notes slowly, as if it were a nymph stretching by a pond in the forest in spring. Scent starts with wet, dewy rose/floral notes followed by civet-y notes. The crystalline notes in beginning are accompanied by contrast between a pink rose and a green jasmine.

It’s a very crisp peony-rose followed by a thread of raspy indolic jasmine which weaves itself into lighter, pink very top notes. Muguet, pivoine, lilas, and freesia are also combined to heart notes of perfume.

Underneath it all, there is a graceful sweetness with some hints of chypre, patchouli, white musk. Traditional heavier notes such as incense, ambergris, are treated with infinite sensitivity.

This perfume is somewhat hard to translate into words as it’s nuances are so minuscule and dainty. So, just experience it’s romanticism!!

Designers set hot fashion trends for Spring at Milan Fashion Week

Luisa Beccaria Spring/Summer 2010 ~
Luisa Beccaria was diversified for her spring collection. She didn’t send a string of black dresses down the runway or do anything as drastic to her parade of pastel-y party frocks. Instead, she launched a range of hand-blown Venetian glass and collaborated with Citroen on a car covered inside and out in a rose print from Spring line with a 1950’s reflection.

Fendi Spring/Summer 2010 ~
At Fendi, it was a season of wispy fabric, ivory and ecru, off-pastels, and fraying edges, with an added Parisian lingerie twist. There were couple of pairs of chamois-fine pants, and puffy, feathery collages of leather on shoulders of a tulle jacket and a cream silk high-necked play-suit and a dotted tulle shirt with a frilled triangle bra beneath. There were a lot of wood-handled bags that came with a snap-on fabric cover and shoes which were again trenched in fabric.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Body painting - Flower - Series #5

Full body painting of flowers on a nude women with her breasts used as flower petals.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Large shoulder and chest tatoo design finished

Hi there,

I finished this drawing a few days ago, before I started on my Fabregas elbow tatoo.
It was my first tattoo sketch this large, including a shoulder AND chest piece in one.

Here's a picture of the high resolution custom tatou design:

chest tattoo shoulder piece in maori style

Comments, questions or other stuff? let me know!

Regards, Mark

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Alien Tattoos

Checkout this great collection of some quality space alien tattoos. They seem to be quite a popular tattoo design among those who believe in the little green men in flying saucers (UFO).

Enjoy this neat picture gallery of Alien tattoo artwork.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Sketch update shoulder/chest tattoo design

Hi,

A small update on the shoulder and chest tattoo design I'm working on right now. I changed the fill of some shapes to make it look a little less traditional maori style.

Get back to you when I receive a message from my client.

Regards, Mark

Friday, September 18, 2009

Dog Tattoos

Dog tattoos are becoming one of the fastest growing types of tattoo designs in the market today, and there is no wondering why, i mean who wouldn't want they're favorite four legged friend tattooed on them for life.

Checkout this picture gallery of some great dog tattoo ideas.

Kirituhi shoulder and chest tattoo drawing

Hi!

I promised to tell you something about one of my latest tattoo projects, so here it is.

Normally my main part of designs consists of shoulder pieces, but for this design a customer
asked me to do a shoulder AND chest piece in one.

It's really tricky to get it all on a flat sheet of paper, so I needed some sort of body template.
The tattoo only covered the outer side of the left arm (from shoulder to elbow) and the left pectoral muscle.
My customer used a sheet of tracing paper and simple traced the shape of his body. The total template looked like this:

The design had to be maori style and have some nice flowing curles/koru. First I drew the outlines of the maori shapes:

Then I filled the shapes with some traditional lines, triangles and other tribal design stuff.

I take pictures of the design with my Canon EOS 400D and send these photos to the customer. It's a lot quicker than scanning it, because it is on A3 size paper.
The final design is ofcourse scanned in high resolution.

Here are a few shots of the tattoo sketch in progress.

I just received a comment from the customer, that he wants the fills a bit more intricate, instead of the traditional tattoo lines.

So I'll get back to you soon with an adjusted tattoo design.

Kind regards, Mark

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

A Dancing Tibetan Ganesha | Lord Ganesha's Photos

In Tibet, Ganesha is placed above the entrance of Buddhist monasteries or painted on the doors, often holding a trident and identified with Shiva.

In Khotan, or Chinese Turkestan, Ganesha was painted on wooden panels and bronze tablets at Khaklik, the Endere stupa and the rock-cut temples of Bezaklik.