Thank you all for the warm welcome!
I came to the realization that the occupation is anything but easy to get into. I took art all my life, but sadly, never really viewed anything as portfolio material. The past 2-3 months have been hectic, sketching as much stuff as I can – but, because of my lack of motivation, I can barely muster up enough willpower to pass the rough draft stage of my artwork. Also, I’m always really disappointed in my work; I’m told constantly by others “That’s Amazing”, but in my head, I feel I could be doing ten times better.
I feel like a lot of my strengths in art revolve around a heavy attention to detailing. IF (and that’s a big if) i was to get into tattooing, though I never expressed interest towards it before, I feel I’d like to mainly do portrait study. I’m workin on it haha
I guess I’m not too ashamed of some of my stuff. But, if you must, here are just a few of my stuff from late high school and freshman year of college 🙂 …
Pencil work roughly 3 hours of work
http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q399/DKOSTURIK/artwork/Indian_final.jpg
Pointillism with 005 tech pen
http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q399/DKOSTURIK/artwork/flowers_final.jpg
Mechanical pencil sketch during study hall haha
http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q399/DKOSTURIK/artwork/tiger_drawing.jpg
Tech pen line work. Self-Portrait Photorealism deconstruction inspired by Chuck Close
http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q399/DKOSTURIK/artwork/Picture001-2.jpg
Another Tech pen Line work. Self-Portrait (about 4 times the size of the previous one)
http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q399/DKOSTURIK/artwork/Picture004.jpg
Tech Pen Pointillism 005. Still in progress (going on 40+ hours of work 🙁 )
http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q399/DKOSTURIK/artwork/angel1.jpg
Four layer suicide wood block print. Self-Portrait
http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q399/DKOSTURIK/artwork/DSC00218.jpg
Be nice :
EDIT: And yes, to answer your question, as of now I have 2x tattoo’s, but greatly desire TONS more. Unfortunately, my work is kinda strict about the whole idea of tattoos. I vow that IF I were to have my foot in the door to a career in the art of tattooing, there’d be no hesitation to get more.
Got this done at Top Notch Tattoo’s in Elgin, IL by a guy named Jeff (who moved a month later to Cali and supposedly is working for Kat Von D now)
http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q399/DKOSTURIK/n1493880042_1523_4542.jpg
This is my first and only tattoo that I’ve done. It’s on my left leg. I didn’t manage to take a picture of how it looked after coloring it in with black.
http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q399/DKOSTURIK/DSC00784-2.jpg
