Preparing Design and Setup for Leanna's Panda Cat Full Sleeve. Iron Cypress Tattoo

Some of the prep drawing and linework for this project from 2019. I may repost this once I have better healed photos of her arm, but this video deals mostly with overall layouts and my drawing process fleshing out the design.
. We finished her Leanna's arm over four full-day sessoins, the middle two being back-to-back... probably 28-30 hours of tattooing. The design took about 8 or 10 hours including line drawing (after a one-hour consultation sketch).

1. The consultation sketches are done in a combination of Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter, on a Wacom Cintiq 12 inch monitor tablet.

2. Markers I sketched with are obviously Sharpie markers, but i think any broad end markers would work. I like these for mashing them in to get thicker lines, and can lift up the paper while using the tip to get small details when necessary. Colored pencils are all Prismacolor pencils, which work well on the Canson Tracing paper I like to use.
3. Black markers in the line drawing are Tombow brush markers, mostly using the smaller end, and small lines were done with Micron pens.
... I hope that answers any possible questions about the design side, but feel free to ask away if I missed anything. I really don't like to discuss too much tattoo specific technical stuff on the internet, because I'm old, and because it is not my place to contradict what your mentor might be teaching you. Most good tattooers would consider my machines and technique backwards anyhow.

... I have a few of these videos in the works, along with some more based on shop talk during sessions, but let me know if you guys are interested in seeing this type of stuff. For info or questions about our shop, please check out ironcypress.com. Cheers folks!
chris
Iron Cypress

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