For my illustrations samples that I wanted to created to see if I was on the right tracks for the portraiture project I used fine liners, inks, marker pens and brush pens to create a stylized portrayal of some of the characters found within my research.
I experimented with ways to show the tattoos on the skin of the people. I experimented with colors that I initially tired in my sketch journal, blues and reds. I think both are really effective but I defiantly prefer the blue as it pays homage to old tattoos and tattoo ink that would be called black but would appear as a blurry blue instead.
As well as this I played around with covering areas of skin with marker pen in areas where I knew there were tattoos but I didn't know what exactly the tattoos were or could be. This is demonstrated in the portrait of the couple together. I think it works really well as a way of coverage and representing tattoos on the skin, as well as that I think that it also works well on the areas of the tattoos that aren't solid blue but are still colored in or shaded. I used Pro Marker pens to demon straight this.
As well as this, while reflecting on illustration samples and research so far, I found that my projects are naturally merging together and becoming one. I say this not because it's a forced idea - but the quotes I want to work with I naturally find linking to the images that I want to illustrate with - I think that together, bringing the two projects into one, I will be able to create naturally forming narratives of tattoos and the people who have them from days gone by - creating images that will be meaningful and reflective upon the subject matter and have images made with a strong sense of context and place in the world both in the past when they were set and today as well.
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