The Drawing Designing Tattoo Art Creating Masterful Tattoo Art from Start to Finish by Fip Buchanan, Marc Balanky

First Attempt

This is thefirst attempt at a tiger composition for a
client’s back.Apicture wastakenand printedout on
regularpapersothatitcouldbedrawnoneasily.The
clientwasindifferentaswhethertocover“Sinner”that
was alreadyon his backor to leave it alone,so the
drawinghereshowsaversionleavingthelettering.The
tiger looked way too small and it was not a great
composition, so this idea was scrapped.