Now that the design is ready and the client is in shop we stencil up the design onto carbon paper. Basically the design is traced over leaving a print on the other side. Once the clients skin is prepared the design is placed on top of the skin and the design is left to dry a moment.
This is the stencil placed on the skin. The Carbon paper leaves a basic outline of everything I need to work on, I throw in extra information where available to make life easier. As you can see on the design I have added alot of extra information in this piece. I've been looking a lot at Jim Dine's Glyptotek Drawings and Sven Groenewald's tattoos. I wanted to take a rougher approach to this design, to not stick to the standard fundamentals I use and step outside of my comfort zone, to step away a little from realism.
