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The End

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The last page of my most recent sketchbook/notebook. It is always a nice feeling to finish a sketchbook from cover to cover. I'm going to try and post a few more pages from this book even though my original plan was to try and post everyday. Life of late has kept me occupied with more pressing matters, while I have been able to sit down and draw a little my time online time has dwindled down to checking email and paying bills. Drawing is such a essential activity that I feel anxious if more than a couple of days go by without putting pencil/pen to paper. At this very moment I'm trying to decide on which sketchbook to start. I have amassed a little stash of various blank books, sketch books and have a tendency to buy more even when I don't need them. Choosing a new book to start has become much like picking out clothes to wear in the morning. I sometimes cannot make up my mind and just default to a normal sketchbook. I've been using different types of books to see if affects the way I approach my drawings(every drawing doesn't have to be a masterpiece). Some of the coolest things I've drawn have been on random bits of paper and stuff. I'm trying to capture that indifference to the random bit of paper in a sketchbook. Well I think I'll just go with a nice large book this time and give the little books a time out.

Createmytattoo.com entry/ AKB initials

 

 So let me start off by saying that I am not a tattoo artist, I stumbled upon  Create my Tattoo recently and after lurking for a while I decided that I would submit a design or two if the subject matter appealed to me. The site is like Threadless  except with tattoos and only the person who commissioned the tattoo picks the winning design. The winner gets paid the prize which is prepaid by the person requesting the tattoo and the website takes a percentage and everybody is happy. So after perusing the rather short list of design requests I thought that I would take a crack at doing the AKB initials. I took a look at the other entries  so that I wouldn't waste time repeating a rejected idea and also reading the comments by the person requesting the tattoo.The tatto-ee requested a girly,swirly,wavy script for her wrist with emphasis on swirly. I love doodling and hand drawn lettering so this was a lot of fun. After filling up a few scrap pages full of ideas I picked the above sketch and inked it up,scanned it and uploaded it to the site. I resisted the urge to place the scan into Adobe Illustrator and redraw it, many of the other entries were just script fonts that had been modified slightly if at all. I think that a tattoo should not look like clipart or have lettering that is the default system fonts from windows etc, I know that flash could be considered "stock art" but I think most people want something original. I didn't want the the lettering to look like a temporary tattoo. Well time to wait and see what happens.