#American traditional flash

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[theartoftc]

[sumisaliva]

Some of my drawings and paintings.

[gothamgrrrls]

folie à deux flash edition

track one / disloyal order

[organicmatter]

New flash sheet ❤️🦞 India ink on 140lb cold press arches. If you are near Portland feel free to message me about booking :)

[diamond-eyes-666]

[necrohag]

flash sheets I have painted for my apprenticeship 🦄✨

[hellbraiserart]

Old school nautical inspired flash sheet!

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Micron pen and ink block

[3milytattoo]

New flash sheet drop

[biafra4mayor]

South Park American Traditional tattoo sheet pt 1 :]]]]

[wolf-m4sc]

First time doing tattoo flash in water color

[kleefkruid]

I'm practising American Traditional tattoo design again, and it always feels odd to me to start bc unlike other illustrations where I tend to start from scratch, the whole thing of trad design is using existing designs and adding your own thing to it, either by, like I am doing here, taking over a pose, or taking an existing design, for instance a classic snake, and putting it in a different pose, or drawing something new but using elements and the general style (I'm not there yet, that's why I am doing studies)

It still feels weird bc I have the "I'm not allowed to copy other people" reflex still, even tough I have gotten better at just taking inspiration from other people, but here it's literally what you're supposed to do, the designs I'm using literally come from a flash book that has a bunch of designs in color and linework, assembled exactly for this! the authors note even ends like:

and honestly it's silly that it's my art academy mind that makes me insecure about this, while I learned there about how for most of art history you studied as an apprentice under another artists, by copying their existing work and even adding to their current work. Tattooing is just one of the last art diciplines where you get taught the trade by someone(s), and you also get schooled by people who aren't even alive... Everyone adding their unique elements, and building on the art as a whole. I think it's pretty beautiful and I hope we can bring it back to the general art scéne.

Anyway, I'm going off a tangent again instead of finishing my drawing, my apologies, they made me write too many essays at the academy and secretly I miss it. But in closing I would like to say that anyone who ever feels like they want to go off something I drew but feel weird about it, you absolutely can and I'd love to see the results even! xoxo

[cicada-heart]

yesterdays sketchbook page ❤️‍🔥💘🍒 a bit asymmetrical and not the cleanest but i’m making myself do these quick sketches as a practice in letting go of perfectionism!!!

[gothamgrrrls]

folie à deux but flash edition

[mantisshrinp]

🦇🍾🃏🐍🫧

joshuagardnerart on instagram

[sagefoxart]

it’s my goal to keep drawing pokemon but unfortunately my hyperfixation is roblox rn :-)