Tattoo Design - Personal Final [Kinda]

This was my first initial drawing layout of the Blossom for my tattoo,

I decided I wanted to give the blossom a feel that would make it personal to me.

There aren't many flowers, this is because there are only 4 in my family.

I'm the baby one of the family so I'm the bud.

Even though over time I've become taller and mature I'm still the baby one when we are all together.

My mother and father are the two flowers that are together, and then in the family tree rooted down is my sister the other flower alone above me. The bud.

This is my inked version of the Blossom idea, It looks a lot better once inked, 

I want to add shadows to the stems but I might just leave that up to the tattooist as I want a personal opinion on this. I've seen many tattoos where the shading is done badly or hardly at all.

I know I don't want it too blackened out.

Let me introduce you to the Cardinal.

• Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds

These are robust, seed-eating birds with strong bills. The family ranges in size from the 12-cm, 11.5-gram Orange-breasted Bunting to the 25-cm, 85-gram Black-headed Saltator^{[verification needed]}. They are typically associated with open woodland. The sexes usually have distinctive appearances; the family is named for the red plumage (coloredcardinal like the color of a Catholic cardinal's vestments) of males of the type species, the Northern Cardinal.

The "buntings" in this family are sometimes generically known as "tropical buntings" (though not all live in the tropics) or "North American buntings" (though there are other buntings in North America) to distinguish them from the truebuntings. Likewise the grosbeaks in this family are sometimes called "cardinal-grosbeaks" to distinguish them from other grosbeaks. The name "cardinal-grosbeak" can also apply to this family as a whole.

Cardinal's have been my favorite birds throughout the years. They have stuck by me and shone brighter then anything else. Not many people know that Cardinal's are my favorite birds, I don't let it on too often as i love all types of birds. Birds remind me of my nanny, whom died when I was turning 1 or 2. She used to sit in the garden and look at the birds, a Robin used to come to her garden very often. When she passed away my grandfather used to sit in the garden and look at the birds to take his mind away from the pain i'd imagine. That Robin still came.

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Cardinals mean a few things, actually. 

The one i like best is "Vitality and/or happiness." Another I found is 

"Brings colour to your life and reminds you that all you do is important, you are someone who brightens others lives"

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So here we go I've come up with it:

This is my final Tattoo design.

It symbolizes a lot to me as you can tell in my first draft of the tattoo at the top.

The Cardinal flying symbolizes me growing up, leaving college/eduction and being my own life changer. I make my own decisions now.

[Cardinal and feather will be in colour Blossom will be in B&W]

I've been through a lot of things in my life and I've just blossomed out of most (see what I did there?)

The feather falling from the bird is showing me leaving my past behind. Anything thats gone on in the past is forgotten. If you dwell upon these things. You'll just get yourself down and ruin whatever could be coming your way.

this tattoo means so much to me and I'd love for people to ask what it means and be moved by the story behind it. Every good tattoo needs a story behind it, thats what makes it so unique to you.

Hope I've inspired you.

Tattoo Design; Blossom [Random.]

I wanted to test out my moleskin book with lined paper, but I found myself drawing Blossom!
If anyone wants me to design a tattoo for them, I would happily do it and give it a try.

Yeah i accidentally nearly put 2000 and 11 as the date.. I have no idea why. Please don't judge me.

Tattoo Design ; Blossom.

This is my tattoo design I drew for college to make into cup transfers ages ago.

I designed this and another intricate floral design for teapots to fulfill my criteria for my 'Potty about pattern' project. I love Blossom and I wanted it tattooed over a scar on my right hip, It will symbolize that whatever my life throws at me, I will blossom out of it, always in the best way I can.

The scar on my right hip is from when I was little and my dog Monte was too much for me to handle, and he ran pulling me down the farm lane on the gravel to see another dog. I was led there bleeding from my side my face, my elbows and my knees.  I needed to meet a friend that day and I wanted to bring the dog. Bad idea. So I walked to meet her anyway dripping with blood, and we walked back to mine so I could get cleaned up. Soon after I was all patched up and okay we took Monte in the fields on my farm instead. Franki threw a bone to Monte and it hit me in the head. Luckily no scarring from that one.

Below are the photos from the tea cups and pots I made in college in 2010.

(I'll scan them in from my sketchbook later.)

Update: Blog Header! & Tattoo design.

I did it guys! I managed to connect the scanner to the mac (though it took half an hour to get the required documents!) and scan in my design! I'm so happy with it! I just need to get Photoshop on here so I can use my bamboo to edit all the scummy bits where I smudged and where the pencil is.

Note: I didn't rub out the pencil because I used a gel type ink pen. Because it gave me a smoother line, hence the pencil marks on the finished image. 

TATTOOOOO;

This is my tattoo design for Ellie. She loves Foo Fighters and wanted a song that meant a lot to her. She chose the font from Dafont.com and I adapted around it with swirls and various vine like designs around it. If you click on the image it'll make it bigger. Finally! I managed to get it online from the scanner so I'm sorry for the delay Ellie.

Hopefully she likes it and will get it tattooed. There is another design she wants me do to she wanted a swan and a rose, so I said what if the swan was part of the rose, but the rose was wilting and had petals falling from it. Now I think of it though I don't see how the swan could be tied in, and would be difficult to capture the swan in the rose petal design. But I'll give it a try!