Sketch A Day: Putting Together My Tattoo Portfolio

Heya! I've finally collected enough decent quality photos of the tattoos I've done to start putting together a portfolio/look-book. I know there are other cool tattoos I've worked on that I would LOVE to take recent, healed photos of but it's hard to track some people down! Contact me at leelabond@hotmail.com if you want to book me for a tattoo! ;)  Here's what I've put together so far:

Sketch A Day: Oh Hey Look, It's April!

Hello and welcome to April!! Sun is shining, change is in the air, and I've hit a wee bit of a creative road block. Due to this annoying happening, I'm re-vamping how I post. I'll keep posting what I'm working on, but I don't think I'll put down dates any more. What you think? If you have an opinion on the matter or have any cool ideas about what you'd like to see on my blog, feel free to leave a comment below. :) On to a short but sweet post!

Cheers,

- Lisa

Turtle turtle turtle! About 1.5 hours

I did this for my husband's cousin's 15th Birthday. Good 'ol William Shakespeare quote.

Leaves I drew for a tattoo client. She came up with most of the original look, I just re-designed them.

Drawn using an awesome tattoo by an artist I LOVE called Nikko as reference. I lost interest due to feeling frustrated that I was drawing someone else's work instead of making up my own, so it's incomplete. About 2 hours.

Rose. About 3 hours. 

Sketch A Day: My Etsy Store is Now Open!!

Yay! My store is open! Check out www.etsy.com/shop/TheArtofLisaBond to find my art for sale! I am also open to commissions.

k, enough of that! :P On to the drawrings!

March 3rd 2013
A pen sketch of Miss Katie Holmes. Not a massive fan but I always thought she was really pretty.This took about 2.5 hours all in all.

March 4th 2013
I've really been into the pens lately, haven't I? I honestly think it's a sign of laziness....  I just didn't feel like blending that much this week. 2 hours.

March 5th 2013
A Birthday card I made for my step-sister, Amy. I totally didn't draw ANYTHING on this card.... I just Photoshopped a bunch of cute pictures together.... I thought I was clever with the wording though. Haha

March 6th 2013
........ I'm sorry you have to look at this weird lady... I spent SO much time drawing this.... and look what happened. Sigh. Gotta try harder next time! I actually saved this file as "Ugh.jpg"

March 7th 2013
I drew this from a stock photo on a free stock photo website, so I don't feel guilty! This was one of my first ideas as a tattoo on my arm. Not going to go that way any more.  I just LOVE the old school microphones! I have one and it's the best. Did this one over lunch break today so, 1 hour. 

March 8th 2013
This one I'm excited about! When I finish it, I'll be selling prints of this in my etsy.com store (theartoflisabond). I'm about down past her guitar now. When this picture was taken, I had put about 2.5 hours into it.

March 9th 2013
I laughed all the way through this tattoo! This guy was so funny. I've also tattooed the Jetson's dog on his foot, and an angry, pre-historic beaver on his leg. Interesting guy!

Sketch A Day: Fun Games and Photoshop and Continuing On...

So my brother and I used to play this game to pass the time and try and push our creativity. I call it "Scribble Inspiration". I'm SURE some of  you've played it before. If you haven't, try it!

February 21st 2013 (Yes, I'm counting these!)
You start by scribbling random things on a page......

February 22nd 2013
...... And then use your imagination to develop them into something else! Mine always end up looking SUPER creepy. I mean, what's with the fish.... thing? And the bird.... Yup. And the creepy Simpsons-esque character. :/

I also thought it might be interesting to show a before and after Photoshop experiment:

February 23rd 2013
I drew this just using a couple ballpoint pens lying around and a reference photograph of the beautiful Miss Jolie. Took about an hour.........

February 24th 2013 (A WHOLE MONTH OF SKETCH-A-DAYS!)
.............Then I scanned it into Photoshop and played with it for a bit. Fun times. :) 

Okay, so I hope you liked that, I did! :) On to more sketch-a-days!

February 25th 2013
Oh hey! Another one in the Gears series! Once again, loving my protractor. Sorry for the big, garish watermark over it.... it's for sale so this is to prevent people from downloading it for free. As with the other two, this took about 4-5 hours.

February 26th 2013
Not my design, I copied this from a tattoo I liked. I wanted practice with the whole 'under the skin' effect. This took a surprisingly long time! Like, 3 hours!

February 27th 2013
Doodling eyes while watching mindless youtube videos. Didn't really want to post this but, ughh.. gotta post them alllll! Only like, 5-10 min.

February 28th 2013
RRRAAAAHHH!!!! It's a 3D scary spider!!! Not my design (I'm such a copier). Drew it from a tattoo I thought was AMAZING. I want to do more like this! Gotta work on those drop shadows!

March 1st 2013
This skull bunny is inspired by a stuffed animal my husband won for me at the PNE. I LOVE it. About 2 hours. (Again, sorry for the watermark, it's for sale.)

March 2nd 2013
It's a face. Just a face. It's for sale, hence the watermark. About an hour I think? 

My online store is almost stocked!! Stay tuned!!

See ya next time!

- Lisa

Sketch A Day: Slowly catching up...

OK, so I'm 10 days behind..... arg. Here we go!

February 16th 2013
This is not my own design, I copied it from a tattoo I really liked. I stopped working on it after just 20 minutes 'cause I noticed all those little white lines... you see them? I basically pushed WAY too hard on the pages on top of this one in my sketchbook. Note to self: When pushing hard, make sure there's a solid surface separating your sketchbook pages. Jeez (head shake). Rookie mistake.

February 17th 2013
This was inspired by my other piece called "Flowers of Time" or "February  9th" if  you're referencing from this blog. I'd like to do a series of these. The truth is, I found a protractor and now all I want to do all day long is draw circles. I'm loving the circles. And the octopuses. Wait.... octopi?  Octo.... what? Whatever. Expect more round and tentically things. I spent quite a while on this.... probably around 4 or 5 hours-ish. 

February 18th 2013
I'm trying to design an angry owl for a client. This is about as angry as I could get the other day. DEFINITELY am going to have to work harder at drawing mean things. he's just too cute! 

February 19th 2013
This awesome girl got this as her first tattoo! Go big or go home, right? Apparently, New Zeland hurts the most!

February 20th 2013
This little lady came out of my brain today. No reference, took me half an hour.

Just another reminder that I WILL have an etsy store opening soon that I'll be selling my originals and prints. Leave a comment as to what you'd be interested in and I'll make sure to make it available to you.

Cheers,

- Lisa

Sketch A Day continued...

My my my.... I've gotten lazy. It happened a lot faster than I thought! I hadn't posted in a while because I was trying to get enough sketches together to represent each day and got so stressed about it that I forgot that this is my blog and I can do whatever the heck I want with it. Apparently, that includes breaking my own rules. Oh well. Let's pretend there are enough images.... I'm honestly counting them as I post, I have no idea...  At the end of this blog entry we'll know where we stand, k? (I swear I'm not crazy!)    :/

February 1st 2013
This is a super rough tattoo sketch idea (not for me) that is so not happening! Kinda fun though....

February 2nd 2013
Not my original, I copied this from a tattoo I saw that I thought was beautiful. Like I said before, copying is a great way for me to learn. I think this took me 1.5 hours.

February 3rd 2013 (my Dad's bday!)
I drew this using the technique I learned from the previous pic. There is a watermark on it because , as an artist, you have to be careful with the internet! I am planning on selling the original and prints of this on my Etsy online store (to be announced).

February 4th 2013
Just a martini. And an olive. Took about a half hour.

February 5th 2013
....... So there IS a story here! When I was little, I drew a comic book that centered around these little pencil shaving people. Yep..... Pencil shavings. As people. Kinda like the smurfs. This was my main character.

February 6th 2013
Rough Rosary Sketch - 20 min

February 7th 2013
The first word is Danish for 'strength' or 'strong'. The second is Italian, meaning 'faith'.  

February 8th 2013
A ridiculous design I came up with for a guy who wanted a tattoo to represent the midnight sun in the Yukon. He ended up changing his mind last minute and got a prehistoric angry beaver instead. I'm NOT kidding! I'll try to find a picture. Haha!

February 9th 2013
I started out drawing the roses from a gardening book when it was a slow day at the tattoo shop. When I got home, I wanted to expand the drawing and I LOVE steampunk so this is what it turned into. The numbers literally have no meaning what-so-ever. I just placed them as they came out of my pen. :)  This one took quite some time... probably around 4 or 5 hours-ish. I am planning on selling the original and prints of this on my Etsy online store (to be announced).

February 10th 2013
My beautiful, talented step-sister, Trisha, and her Curtis got married on the 16th of Feb! I carried on my tradition of drawing a characature of them as a wedding card. Congrats to them! Drawn by hand and coloured in photoshop. About 3 hours-ish.

February 11th 2013
Tattoo I did. 1 hour.

February 12th 2013
Sorry about the bad quality photo! An actual painting!!! If you know me and my art, I VERY rarely paint. I'm a bit insecure and think I'm crap at it. My awesome friend, Amanda, hosted a Painting With Wine night at her place and this was how mine turned out. (Side note: we drank the wine, we didn't paint with it.) A really fun night and I picked up some great tips. I might get into this 'painting' thing! I'm debating whether or not to sell it...

February 13th 2013
Hoot hooooooot!! :) I like owls. I am planning on selling the original and prints of this on my Etsy online store (to be announced).

February 14th 2013
Valentine's Day! I don't know why, but drawing this octopus made me SO happy! Like, ridiculous happy. I was smiling like an idiot the entire time I was drawing it. It was my first time and I feel like it was some kind of spiritual happiness moment. Maybe this is my spirit animal....haha Shading it in was another story... I am planning on selling prints of this on my Etsy online store (to be announced). I don't remember how long it took me 'cause I worked on it a couple different times.

February 15th 2013
BAM! Diva mermaid girl! About an hour and a half. My pen ran out so I had to use a different, 'bluer' one (upper left corner). :/

So I made it all the way up to the 15th. Not too bad. I'm going to have to keep on top of this craziness. A benefit of posting these sketch a days is that I'm working on something artistic all the time, no breaks.
 Thanks for viewing the blog!

Cheers,

- Lisa