Oni mask

Oni \ Hannya mask-- sketches

ripped this off my Instagram, low rez pictures because its a drawing, apparently people steal, I DON'T KNOW JUST TRUST EVERYTHING YOU READ ON THE INTERNET.

anyway:

from left to right, my brain:
marker drawing, i love oni masks, i tattooed on on my right thigh, whole top, their like skulls, but form demons, and the Japanese samurai wore then when they butchered people? sounds awesome.
anyway, excitement drawing, markers, blending a tan and a brown, keeping it wet and moving the ink around, almost like a painting,  left it, came back, realized my proportions suck,

puppet-warped it in cs5? 6? whatever, if you dont know what puppet warp is, and your a visual artist, it saves your ass, re valued the proportions, and drew over it, so i could trace the original oni mask size printed out onto the upper right tracing paper.

and finally the  original tattoo, to size, photo taken at angle, BEKUZ ARTZ N SHITZ
but the size literally came down 20% from the original line drawing, which made me super sad, but i still lined it,  forearm tattoos always need special love, didn't subtract any details, just fine lined the Oni mask and dealt with it, 2.5 hours of line-work.

cool client,  usually wants traditional spin off artwork from old legends.