How to design a maori shoulder tattoo: Step four

I completely filled the tattoo sketch with maori, tribal and polynesian style shapes. The design is finished in pencil and at this stage it&...

How to design a maori shoulder tattoo: Step three

The ferns and maori shapes like curles are ready now. Then I start sketching and filling the empty spaces in the design. I like to use trian...

How to design a maori shoulder tattoo: Step two

When the first rough outline of the shoulder tattoo is set, I try to make some nice flowing curls and koru shapes. The koru fern is a repre...

How to design a maori shoulder tattoo: Step one

This is the first step in designing a Maori style tattoo for the shoulder. Materials used: - A3 paper (29,7 x 42 cm) 200 grams/m2 - B1 penci...

How to draw a Maori tribal shoulder tattoo

Hi! I have been working on a new custom tattoo piece, and I would like to show you a few photo's of the design process. It's a step ...

Final traced tattoo drawings in Maori style

Hi, Once a pencil sketch is completed, I trace the image with a black marker and erase all pencil stripes. The drawings are scanned at 300 D...