Drawings I did instead of going out of town.

This is the general idea I came up with for a friends tattoo. He'd ask me last week if I'd draw him a whippoorwill in "my style" for his next tattoo. The next few images are what I came up with. I went through a few different looks before I was happy with it.

This was my initial illustration I did to define the over all detail over the bird and then I drew and redrew the bird until I ended up with the style and detail that I was looking for. This is how the begin most of my paintings and drawings, start with photo realism and then redefine the subject into my strange version of reality.

This is what I've come up with so far. It will stay black and white(pen and ink), but I'm still not done with it just yet and I've started a painting of the same image that will be in color. I've included a few details below.

Painting coming soon!