Digital Media
Tattoo Design
Objective:
Students will use Adobe Photoshop to demonstrate their own works of art, namely tattoo, which is a personal style in communicating an idea, theme, or emotion. Students will create a pencil sketch, Photoshop traced image, and modify a digital photo of themselves applying the tattoo to a part of their body. Students will discuss their original works of art, using the appropriate vocabulary of art to explain the theme and how this is shown in their work.
To Start: You will need to research tattoos and look at variety of designs and then design a couple of images to use for this assignment. Why do people get tattoos?
Tattoos can mean different things to different people. People get tattoos for many reasons: for attention, self-expression, artistic freedom, rebellion, a visual display of a personal narrative, reminders of spiritual/cultural traditions, sexual motivation, addiction, identification with a group
Since you will be designing this tattoo you will need to decide the reason you would want one and what it will mean to you.
I would suggest basing your own design on several similar designs.
Remember this should be your own design not a recreation of someone else's work.
Taken from WWW.MRSONARTCLASS.COM
For this assignment you will be designing a tattoo of your choice which you will sketch out on paper and then recreate in Photoshop. Once done you will need to take a photograph a picture of yourself wearing the tattoo without showing your face.
Setup your paper in Photoshop
8.5 x 11 or 11 x 8.5
Resolution 300
Using the drawing tablet or the pencil tool
in Photoshop draw the outline of your selected tattoo.
Create a new layer and color in the design.
Have your picture taken with the specific body part where the tattoo will be placed.
Open the photograph in Photoshop and copy and paste the tattoo onto the photo.
Under edit chose transform and then perspective warp so that you can curve the tattoo around the space.