Snake knot

Sometimes I wonder why I keep trying to colour things with pencils, as obviously my only talent is finding the worst colour schemes. Blue and orange-red seemed like a good idea, and now I think it just look weird. I added a black and white version which I prefer.

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Celtic knot stuff

This was done quickly, that's probably with it's not very regular in shape. Oh well, even when I spent hours it's not much better :]

 

Celtic tattoo design

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(Oh, and to the guy from hannalovinda.blogspot: I have no problem with you republishing some of my stuff, but at least keep the "This work by tattoos-and-doodles..." untouched.  Rebloging it does not make it a "work by hannalovinda". Thank you :p )

Bio stuff...

It started ok at the top, but I messed a bit the lower part, I think.

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Bird's-eye view

Silly pun title, once again.

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Human skelworm

After drawing this I had the feeling I already saw something similar somewhere, but was unable to find it. I guess it's just a mix of a human skull + an Alien-inspired tail, or something.

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Knot a dragon...

Ugh, horrible pun. It only has 2 paws so it looks like a mix of snake and dragon, maybe... My previous attempts (of completely different drawings) were failures, so this final one was done in a rush as I was getting annoyed.

Viking knots...

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Skewed skull

No reference. That was fun to do.

skull

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Carved lotus

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Funny, the texture of the paper makes it look a little like a stone carving. Just a little.

On other news, I may change the "pace" of that blog from one post every Sunday to one post every 2 Sundays... I'm really out of ideas for tattoos design at the moment. I wasn't even inspired by halloween (maybe because it's not celebrated here). Instead I'm having fun doing ugly gouache paintings, and it seems to take almost all the inspiration/motivation I have. 

Another vertical tribal tattoo

Vertical tribal tattoo design

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 I was a bit out of ideas lately, so tadaaa... a tribal flash.
It's funny to think I started to draw this kind of stuff some 15 years ago when I was in secondary school. At that time I thought there was only 2 types of tattoos in the world : tribals and the crappy prison/army tattoos worn by some adults I knew (ugly cross, lion, naked chick, knife... bleh.)

geometric flowers

Obviously, I have some trouble with colour...

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Cthulhu-ish

Yes I know, I didn't update the last 2 sundays. Argh. :)

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Shell

One of those time, when I start to draw without knowing what I'm doing. Not sure I like it that much, but I was a bit out of time.

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Mjölnir

So... I wanted to do something simple, with just flat colours, no shading. Of course, things never happen exactly how I want them ^^'.

Mjölnir / Thor's Hammer

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On a side note, look at this, these are some great hammer pendants (I especially like the one on top, it's way more "nordic" than my version) http://varglya.blogspot.com/2010/07/recent-works-more-carvings.html

Science & Knowledge

I wanted to try to do some lettering. I wasn't sure what words to choose, but after seeing so many "faith" and "believe" tattoos, I opted for those words that seems less common ;) (well, actually there's quite an amount of very nice science related tattoos, from equations to artistic rendition of electrons etc.).

Science and knowledge lettering tattoos

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Fabric butterfly

Hm, not sure about the kind of lace thing. Not much inspiration lately, I promise, I'll try to do better next Sunday ^^'.

fabric butterfly

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Rose heart

I have the feeling I already saw something like this somewhere (probably better, this was done without reference so the shading is a bit weird)

Rose heart

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Engraved stone

Hmm, a pocket sized Newgrange stone? :)
And in case you wondered, the last doodles on coloured background were actually done on some coloured note paper, the small (9x9cm) kind. It's nice for small designs. 

Engraved stone

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Steamoboros

So, if you mix the steampunk cogwheels and the Ouroboros symbol, you get...

Steampunk ouroboros

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Mecha-triquetra...

... or whatever you want to call it =p.
Just a quick one, once again (where the heck is my inspiration gone?!)

Mecha triquetra

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Star & swirls

Nothing interesting today, the too hot weather makes me completely apathetic, and I couldn't even put my hand on a paper without leaving a sweat mark. So this is a very quick and simple scribble.

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