THE HUMAN CANVAS - Here Be Pirates! Arrrrr....

Arrrr.

That's a friend of mine, Mike.

He's served as photographer for a few

Human Canvas sessions, and we've often talked

about turning the ink onto him.

The sessions he's served

as photographer on... ALL quite nice.

Links to some of those sessions HERE, HERE,

HERE, and HERE. He has quite a few real tattoos,

and, like me, the only one he really wants

to cover is his own name.

Mine HAS been.

Funny.

Anyway,

So this turned into

a nice new experiment. I've often wanted

to color in an existing tattoo...

...As well as see

what Sharpie ink does to cover ink

that's IN the skin.

So THERE'S the cover-up of one tattoo.

Now to start coloring in the other.

Close up for some detail...

I chose to add a bit of the belly

to that side section. The curve of this snake

is a bit awkward for me to envision.

...And now, back out for the hair.

(which I'd always seen, by the way, as flames.

We WILL be revisiting this one before he gets it

colored in and detailed.

For reals, that is.

 

I also paid more

attention (FINALLY) to where

I might need to lay my hand as I'm drawing,

so I didn't detail and color in the snake

completely before working

on the hair.

Add two more layers of color to the hair,

then add a background.

Mike's Irish, so...

...Add a four-leaf clover...

...OH!

And a plume!

Ya can't have a pirate hat without a plume!

So...

One clover and plume later...

Here be pirates!

Arrrrrrr!

We call him Mike.

We'll be hitting this one again,

as well as filling in and adding

to his other tattoos.

Check back for that.

There's some fun stuff coming!

Thanks Mike.

And thank YOU for checking this out.

Still more in the wings waiting to get out there.

Soon.