Digital Design and Illustration of Tattoos with Procreate
Outline design (part 1)
A course by Tania Maia , Tattoo Artist
About the video: Outline design (part 1)
Overview
“In this lesson I will teach you how to transform a realistic image into a tattoo illustration. ”
In this video lesson Tania Maia addresses the topic: Outline design (part 1), which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Design and Illustration of Tattoos with Procreate. Learn to create blackwork designs ready to be transferred to the skin.
Partial transcription of the video
“Assembly? Done. Collage? Done. Now we can start with our outline design. In this lesson we are going to see how to imbue your work with your personal identity. Ready? Let's begin. What I am going to do now is save all the originals of my montage, group them in a folder, and disable it. Back to the bottom of the list. I'm not going to be using this folder again. I'm enabling the reference arm I'm going to be basing my design on and I'll get the image that we'd saved here again. Now it's time to position it keeping in mind the natural movement of the arm. Where am I placing my tattoo? I need ...”
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Course summary for: Digital Design and Illustration of Tattoos with Procreate
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Category
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Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Tattoo Design, Traditional illustration

Tania Maia
A course by Tania Maia
Tania Maia is a Brazilian tattoo artist based in Lima, Peru, who specializes in the blackwork technique. Despite graduating in fashion design from the Santa Marcelina University of São Paulo in Brazil, in 2013, she left the profession to become a full-time tattoo artist. The influence of the fashion world is evident in the details of her tattoo artworks.
She has participated in three editions of the NY Empire State Tattoo Expo, one of the most renowned tattoo artist conventions in the United States. Outside the tattoo world, she has produced illustrations for various collaborations including the German cooking and surfing book Reisen Surfen Kochen in 2015, as well as projects for the BarBarian brewery and Marriott hotels, to name just a few.
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