Sketching Tribal Faces. Portrait tattoo designs.
There is something about a black and white portrait sketch with a simple colorful tattoo pattern on it... I love me some colored lines on a face! Maybe its my personal design cheat.
I started doing these patterns last year for inktober. They were just to get the drawings going. But eventually they bled out to other stuff I was doing, and every single face in my notebook had a tattoo sketch! I had to force me to stop making lines on my face sketches... But as it turns out, it gave me some really cool designs, and even some cultural ideas for visual world building.
I advice this to you: If you are making an otherwise boring portrait sketch, put some colored patterns in there: circles, straight lines, points, etc. Bam! Tribal Face! No more a boring character, now a tribal warrior of the western fields beyond the sacred seas...
Give it a try, its fun.
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Cheers!
Que lindos esses personagens!
São muito autênticos, cada um com suas expressões e sentimentos que eles transmitem.
Amei particularmente o olhar desse última mulher... intenso.
Parabéns
@lisamalletart, muito obrigado! Na verdade nem tentei dar tanta expressão para eles, mas acabou que esta ultima mulher realmente ficou com um olhar intenso mesmo!
WOWOWOW these are so creative and wonderful and very beautiful <3 I love each design and i also love the faces and characters you've presented here. Such richness ! Can imagine them as characters from a very interesting story!!!
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Thanks @veryspider! I tried to come up with characters that seemed they have a history behind them. Glad you like it!
These Characters Are Amazing
The first and the sixth are my favorites, and they are all very interesting designs.
I will definitely try what you said and just add some design work to my portrait sketches and see where it leads. I hope that I can create designs as well as you do.
When I look at them I get the notion that they would also make great oil paintings
Thank you so much @art-mess! Please try these yourself, besides being really fun, it can bring about strong designs and story oriented visuals! And I would make a oil painting of them if I could, but my skills in oil aren't that great... But maybe I'll try something like that with some watercolor or acrylic.
wow really nice, and thank you for the tip, I'm so gonna try it! Actually I do these personal drawing challenges just for me, where each week I pick a media and a theme and this week i picked portraits with ink! Perfect for playing with this idea, super happy I stumbled upon you!
Thank you @frejafri! Please try these patterns! They can bring about some really interesting characters and designs. Our world is filled with cultures that do this kind face painting, you can use any of them as inspiration to enrich your designs. Really glad I could help you with your drawing challenge!