Slow Down You Crazy Child is a recent tattoo lettering project. I was so pleased to have received a photo from Vicki showing her inked wrist.
This project began with a series of quick little compositions to show what was possible.
As with all projects I began with a template sketch starting point. Adjustments were made for the lettering to read properly at a small size. Words and letters had to be reshaped, resized and altered to create the composition.
After the composition came together I embellished to the letters to provide Vicki with something unique to enjoy for a long time. I am amazed her tattoo artist was able to recreate all the details of my lettering at such a small size. What a pleasant surprise!
That's beautiful, excellent work and it's great to see such a carefully designed typographical tattoo! I've got one I had designed by a Japanese calligrapher, and my best friend is a tattoo artist with an MA in illustration and 10yrs graphic design and type experience behind him so luckily I see a lot of excellent work - sadly he gets a LOT of people coming in with text ideas or something they've seen that are awfully designed, unsuitable for tattooing or just damn poor type design, so there's a lot of convincing and redesigning involved ;)
ReplyDeleteDo you mind if we retweet this from his account (@ktot)?
minxlj,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the nice compliment. You may retweet anytime.
Alan
Thanks! I've added a link from http://twitter.com/ktot - you should get yourself on there, lots of designers appreciating good type who'll follow you! :)
ReplyDeleteWhen will you realize Vienna waits for you...
ReplyDeleteDo you do requests? I love the layout of this. I want a tattoo that says "Trust that the wind knows where it's going" and one saying "Gura" .
ReplyDeleteYes Britta, I do requests all the time. Contact me at:
ReplyDeletea.ariail@sbcglobal.net to discuss the tattoo lettering you are in need of.