Drawing a Tattoo sleeve design (Traditional Koi fish Japanese tattoo)

Drawing a Tattoo sleeve design (Traditional Koi fish Japanese tattoo)

In Today’s how to draw video I will be taking you through my full design process and going in to detail on how compose a tattoo illustration as a half sleeve design. I’ll take you through concept, subject placement, background elements and more. I’ll also show you how I ink, spit shade, colour and complete the design using acrylic inks, ready to hang up, sell or to make into prints.

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[LuXy]

I am not a tattoo artist, I mostly paint on clothes and different fabrics. However your tutorials are immensely helpful for my work, since I tend to struggle with the placement of certain elements and sometimes I don't know where or how to start a draft for example. Your tutorials have also helped me become less afraid to try new designs. Thank you for being an inspiration 🌸

[tobimiley]

Great Video, Dag. I recommend everyone watch the individual tutorial videos, especially the 3-part koi fish one. That series is one of the best I've ever seen you do, one of the best I've ever seen period from anyone. I can't wait to see the painting part next week. You continue to knock these out of the park. I hope I can continue to support you by purchasing your new brush set. I'm really liking that dragon hand tattoo. The strong linework, design and, placement are rather well done. Keep 'em coming, Dag.

[duongleang]

thank u, my teacher, from Vietnamse with love ♥

[Dr.Patches]

Very cool design, bub. I'd be honored to wear it on my arm. I really like how you explained the wave bars (which has been a struggle for me).

[stevenbooker]

Great video would love more like this👍 and I am pumped for the dragon brush set!

[danielsmolders]

Great job once again, balance is nice in this one. I tend to want to cram too much stuff into my designs, less is more but that sometimes doesn't resonate with me hahahah.

[JadedGenXer]

Aussie accent? Down the east coast, Sydney side down the coast towards melb ish ?
Your page is exactly what ive been looking for instead of looking at images.

I want to custom my skate helmet thats a white background in a Japanese tattoo style and all i needed was someone to break this stuff down as trying to emulate other peoples work trying to wrap it around a helmet is not computing untill now.

[SLptn]

Are u gonna do a paint along video with this piece?

[nudgehole_]

Nice!! Your drawing is interesting.🥰🥰🥰

[SLptn]

Can u please upload this sleeve drawing template to be downloaded. Thanks

[zenarart]

Like 100, 👍 hello my dear friend you are really great artist I like your job, thanks for sharing 👍stay connected please 👍

[thanhdinh]

Can you draw dragon for sleeve tattoo please 🥺

[enricoalban]

where is the link of the template of japanese sleeve?

[thedarkeremit]

super gut erklärt, Endlich mal wo man auch was dazu lernen kann ich Zeichne auch wenn du mal Lust hast kannst du mal eine sonne mit Wolken zeigen mit Schattierungen da ich das in Japanischem styl nicht hin bekomme danke dir im voraus lg Eremit

[illaddsomethingherelater]

The link to the template doesn't work, gives me a 404

[anthonygalto]

I want a sleeve but will probably never get it because Id feel guilty spending that much money on myself. I want a tattoo sleeve to help me remember I'm a new person and to open my eyes and stop watching time just get wasted.