Drawing a Custom Japanese Sleeve

I was asked recently for one of my favorite things to do, a Japanese sleeve. Here is a little documentation of the designing process.

We fist met up for a consultation to clear up ideas and make sure that I understood what he was looking for. I sent him home with the homework of finding images that he liked of the motifs he wanted, this allows me to get a feel for the aesthetic taste of the client, which in turns saves me from wasting time with drawings based on assumptions of taste, or restrictions of my own preferences, which would also miss the mark a lot of times.

Once he found all the reference, he emailed them to me, and we set up another consult. At this point we discussed how things were going to lay on his arm, and how they would relate to one another.  Took some measurements and came up with this layout:

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I then took this and quickly laid down the main shapes onto his arm and took a tracing

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Earlier this week it was time to start drawing. So I printed out all my reference material and started to sketch.

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And this was the final sketch, ready to be made into a clean line drawing.

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All this took about three to four hours, and not tattooing had been done yet.  We did start the tattoo this week, I will be posting the pics from our fist session, along with all the new work of the week, come Monday.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great weekend!

– Ez

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