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1. INTRODUCTION: Hello, my name is assessing
alignments are two artists here in Finland where I
have my own tattoo studio. And in this class, I'll be teaching
you how to design a very traditional peony tattoo. So recently, I
made a class about sketching a tattoo designs, but I'm Catholic comment asking whether I could do
a new tutorial, but taking it a step further. So I did after we do
the skids with you, the clean outlines that can be used as a stencil
for the tattoo. But I also will teach you how to do two different
final designers. One very popular black
and gray design, but also a very traditional
colored version of the same P only using very
traditional basic colors. Peonies are getting really popular in detached
you will nowadays. So I thought what
better way to start this new series of
tattoo design tutorials, tenant pianist, so crappy or
iPads and crop your papers. And let's get to drawing.
2. THE SKETCH: So let's start with circle. Because when it comes
to tattoo designs, I like to use layers. And when it comes to pee on it. Well, when it comes to arose to, I start with two circles. Like this. Mohr circle is
not at the dead center, it slightly above
the center point. And then I always draw
a line through them. This is sort of the
rough shape of it. This smaller circle
is the center. And this is the other part of, and then there will be
leaves outside of it. But let's focus on this first. So then I'd take a
slightly darker color. And I start shaping
little more details in. And I think when it comes to traditional like tattoo designs, I think peony is very, very important, maybe not
as important as rows. But there's one thing
in the peony that I think doesn't apply in a rose. And that is that it
is very, very simple. When it comes to simplicity. You have to really
pay attention to details because every single
line matters basically. But this is sort of the
rough shape for every peony. I draw and I touch you. And so we had the yellow, the sort of like the
two circles and align. And now we have the orange, which sort of as more details. Now, I might add
some outer leaves. When it comes to Paeony, I always draw two
types of leaves. I have these bigger ones
with like three points. I apologize, I don't
know what you call them. Like so. And then I use
smaller leaves also. Like so. This is my rough shape. Now. Then I do one more sketch. Before I outline. Now I do red one. And now we saw the start giving more shape to this flower. And p only. The shape is very simple. It's like this cloudy,
cloud-like structure. Like. And this is the shape that you see
throughout this whole flower. Everywhere. And it might take you some time
to get used to say, but I have drawn like
hundreds of these. So it comes to me
quite naturally. Already. We have here
the center part, and then we have
this outer leaves that which are
sort of like open. And the middle part is closed. And I always throw some
dots in the middle, like it's very useful in
these traditional designs. And then from this
point on, well, it's up to your taste, but I like to add lines here. And then I like to add dots
at the end of the lines, like where you can see these. Every good curved shape
here has its own dot. And every line ends in a dot. As many curves there are. There are as many
lines and dots also. This also continuous
throughout the whole design. Again, this is just
a rough sketch. So it's not like just
draw them somewhere. Like so. And then we
do these leaves here. Says draw the general shape. Because when it
comes to flowers, I like to always combine different types of leaves
and never touch to like one because it gets
really boring, really fast. So this is the general
shape of these leaves. This is so fast like they
look really funky now. And then I do the
smaller leaves. And again, one really
important thing here, or they can different colors. You can see the
point of the live, live, sorry, should always
like this live right here. It's not good because
if you follow the line of the
leaf, it goes there. It's always called the
center of the flower. So it should go like this. You know, same here. When you draw flowers. It should always like the
center of D, the whole flower. You wouldn't draw
belief like this. Because then the line
would go right there. And I think that is a very, very important
thing to consider. But again, we're just doing the very rough sketch,
so it's alright. Maybe add one more of them. Yeah, that's good. So now I might take a lighter color and
make sure shut off. Make sure my leaves are good. And now I need to do another round for
the, for these leaves. But then we can start
outlining the flower. And then here. Then finally, this one also. So then let's combine those. Now we have our sketch version and now we can
start outlining it.
3. OUTLINES: So first I turned the
opacity quite low. Then I take my outlining
plant that's way too big. Let's make it smaller.
I would be honest, I like to use the
same width outline throughout the whole design. I always start right
here in the middle. It's really easy to begin here because it feels like it's
on top of everything else. So let's draw the center. First. I think peonies are also really, really fun designs
to tattoo also. And they never get boring. For some reason. I'm quite lucky because I
get to tattoo PO, nice. Quite often. It's really cool. And then we begin with the outer parts of
the flower. Like so. Again with flowers,
especially with peonies, you can play with the design. So months. Once you get used to the general elements and
shapes of the flower, you can get very
creative and very crazy. With leaves and with pianist, I think you can make the flow of the flower like work better than
any other flower. Like if you really
know how to draw this, the flow can be so good. It will look amazing. When it comes to
tattoos as palate, especially like on the calf or the forearm or
something like that. Like slimmer along
a part of the body. Then I draw the lines. Then I think it's really
important to note also the curve on these lines. Like now you can see some lines like this and then
other lines go like this. It gives the illusion
on the shape and the direction of the disk
part of the flower, e.g. right here. See how
different it looks. If I draw the lines like this, it doesn't look right at all. But then if I draw
the lines like this, see how different it is. But again, it should
really like this line should come from
the center of the, well, I can't get
it right though. Robot that looks good. Then you just add lines here. Here. Maybe here too, we can play with the
curvature. That's good. Like so. And then we do the,
we do the dots. Usually I taught
you the dots to P. It's just a slight, slightly bigger than
the Axial like line. Slightly bigger than
the line. Sorry. It gives a really nice texture. In my opinion, like these dots. They add so much to the tattoo. You
don't have to do this. You don't even have to do the
lines if you don't want to. But I like to do them. And then we do the leaves here and there. Yeah, that looks really good. The the and I like to
make these leaves big. And then I like to
do a lot of leaves. Because the way I
personally enjoy doing peonies is I keep the
very center really dark, and I keep the outer
leaves here very dark, but the leaves in the
middle will be very light. And it gives it a very nice texture and
contrast, in my opinion. But again, it's just a
personal preference. Then we do smaller lines. There. One more. One more there. Yeah, that's good.
One leave there. One there. Is the skewed. Again, make sure that the flow follows the
center of the flower. So finally, right there. Now we take that off and
now we have outline done. Now I just have to
turn that black. There we go. In the next one,
we'll do shading. And I think I'll do two
different versions, one black and gray
and one color worsen. So let's see how it goes.
4. THE BLACK & GREY VERSION: Alright, so now let's
do the shading. And I say it differently, depending on whether
the piece will be black and gray or whether
it will be awesome. So let's start with the black and gray one eye they take the bigger
leaves first. And I want to make
them very dark. Like something like
this, even very dark. And then I want to take the I want to take the smaller leaves and say, like, This happens
to some mishap. So fortunately, I have
to trace this by hand. Drawing tattoos
have, has become so easy now that we have iPads
and procreates and all that. It's so easy to modify designs
and it's so fast to draw. It's so nice that you can print different sizes
through your computer and you didn't have to
redraw the whole thing. And then it's really nice that sometimes
you're going to like truly sketch it for customer. If he or she wonders what it will look like when
it's completely done. Maybe you can do whole, like drawing with colors
and savings so they can see how the piece will
look when it's done. And also, if I like, I plan to do a red Peony. So then I can so easily change the color to blue
or yellow or whatever. So here are the leaves. Then I shade this in a part. And I always say that black is the most important
color of a tattoo. But you always have to
leave room to breathe. And this is how I shade a P
owning black in the center. And then it leaves
some room to breathe. And you repeat this action
throughout the whole flower. To leave the auto parts and
the inner parts. Like so. And then use ache
leaves right here. And like I said, I like to you can even use
gray ink if you want to, but you'll leave them
like very, very light. Not even that dark. Let's see. Something like this maybe. I think that's pretty good. Pretty good. Black
and gray Paeony. And again, it looks
very different now because the background is white. But when this, when
this is on the skin, it looks very good. So here we have the
black and gray version. And the next one
we'll do a color one.
5. THE COLOUR VERSION: So like I said, when it comes to shading, I will say differently, depending on whether the
work will have color or not. So in this one, we'll, we will have color. And I like to always do
two different creams on, on leaves, always because again, it gives it a nice contrast. Like so. And this green I used, it might look even blue, but it is like very, very traditional Green
used in jet chewing. And I really love it. And then I take maybe, maybe we'll do this
leaf right here. And we do the same green
little bit of black. And then maybe,
maybe we do that. We do this really weird color. And if you aren't used to it, it might look strange. It's like almost blue. And in very old school
traditional designs, this color can be used
either as green or blue. It can be used in leaves
or it can also be used in like in ocean or
something like that. I really loved the color and I use it quite
a lot actually. And now let's take like
more more normal column. I'm not even sure if I ever done a color peony
as attached to you because I'm mostly known for my black
and gray tattoos. So it's what people ask from
me like 90% of the time. I'm not sure if anyone
has ever asked me to do a Color Piano. I'd really love to. It's so nice that
you can use like very traditional color
palette as well. When it comes to pianist, like green, red, yellow, and that's basically it. I believe that the less colors you use in a colored
piece that better. There we have the leaves. Then I feel like you have few
options how to do a parts. But the way I do it is right? Use red. Same way I used black before. In a tattoo. You'd like we said, this red. But it's not that
easy on the iPad, so I'll just do like this. It looks good. Nevertheless.
We do it like so. And then finally we
have them. Last one. And then I think what
pairs really well with red is yellow. So I always make
the center yellow. Then what we do is we take red and we bring it there. But I think it's very
important to again, let the tattoo breed. So I will have these
lines right there. Then I also asked, also, repeat this in every
single one of these, like so. And then there and then so. And like so. And there we have it. Very traditional Paeony. And what is really
cool with this one, with not that much black. One thing I might do is I
might add some black to the background from
behind the leaves. Again, optional,
but you can do it if you want to make
the colors really pop. But there we have it. Very traditional
tattoo, PO name. And again, try to be smart with your layers and always keep an extra one with
only the outlines. So you can always take
it and make a stencil out of it if you plan
to attach to it. But here we go. Then we also have the, let's see if we can
make them bold. Here at the same time, we have the color version. We have the black
and gray version, which ever suits you better, whichever your clients
asked you to do. And also the way I
use the eraser there, you can also take the
eraser and bring it here. The black one as well. And do that on every leaf. Leaf as well. Now it's difficult because I
can't select layer anymore, but you get the idea. There. We have two very,
very traditional peonies.
6. OUTRO: And there you have it. Thank you so much for watching. I really truly appreciate
if you left me a review, keenly a comment, and
tell me what I did, where I could improve. And most importantly, telling me what would you
like to see next? Would you like to turn on rows, maybe some animals,
more flowers, whatever you want to see. I'll provide solve,
linear comment. Send me a message and of course
hit to the Projects tab. And so me, your peony design. And I'll give you
like and comment. Thank you so much. See you in the next one. Bye.
Jesse Edvin, Artist
