Monday, March 13, 2006

Illustration Friday: Tattoo


















I stole some time away from a looming deadline to put this together fast--I missed the last IF and didn't want to miss this one too. Wasn't sure if I liked the tattoos best in color, or in black. I do love the *punch* of straight black and white art. But I did do a color version, which can be seen here.

This was done in FreeHand, the poor vector program that has been gobbled up by Adobe but which I will always love.

21 comments:

Unknown said...

nice design!

Rachelle said...

Great design. I do love the punch you get from the black design. I think color would detract from that.

ottoblotto said...

Very nicely done. I like the b&w version best.

lil kim said...

Definitely like the b/w version best. your last post for I-F would work as well this week! NIce work.

Anonymous said...

love ure work. (:

found it thru IF.

Jay Montgomery said...

Great Work! You know the figure very well.

The Unknown said...

Wow! That is beautiful! Great stuff.
love

Francesca said...

Like the graphic quality of that. Beautiful work you have here :)

Lee said...

I really like the simplicity of this design...very nice :)

Radha a.k.a Ratlion said...

This is good..and yup, the black and white one has more 'punch'!

Sarah Elizabeth said...

wow...very nice...i love the idea!!!

TXArtcGal said...

Awesome job! I love it all in black and white! Very nice!

Dan Murphy said...

WOW your variety of illustration techniques and styles is really nice. Cool idea for a tatoo, beautifully drawn.

GRAS.GRUEN said...

i like all your drawings an illustiations !!! - realy great !
the tatoo is better in black/white -
Greatings from Germany
Angie

georg said...

beautiful - elegant, I really like it, great!

Mark said...

Hi Chrissie...

Thanks for your kind words on my blog...you look like you have a lot going for you here! Very nice, honest work :)

All The Finest

Mark

Chrissie A said...

Thanks so much, everyone, for the comments! I really appreciate the feedback. :)

Patrick said...

Freehand or Illustrator... either way, I love the vector art you have going on here! Cool design!

Unknown said...

oooooooo I love this!! Amazingly inspirational yet again!

LuisNCT said...

Good design, I like more the red-black-white version...
The previous pencil nudes are simply great

Anonymous said...

I wonder if the response to the B&W is more favorable because of the red tattoo shapes crossing the black outline on the color version? Just curious.

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