2 Projekts and an update

Hey guys,
I hope February has been treating everyone great and smoothly. The Superbowl was a complete disappointment. Not in terms of the score although I'm not a 49ers fan so the Ravens winning was just a gloating factor. It was a disappointment as far as the commercials go. I'm sure there were a few that struck some emotional chords, such as the Clydesdale horses commercials, but none that were really mind-blowing. Although the 2 Broke Girls commercial was pretty intense. Anyways...

Projekt #004
Last week I was talking to my brother's girlfriend about tattoos. (She recently got a dia de los muertos skull tattoo with a rose, really nice) She told me she wanted to get one done to honor her sister. Her sister happens to love turtles and she and her sister are always tied to the hip. So, she wants a turtle tattoo, on her hip. Nice! I showed her snowflake design I did for my other friend and she really like the concept. Not too realistic, not too abstract. That's what she wanted to start off with. So I'm writing down this initial concept ideas and getting a few lines of thought down.

Projekt #005
Another friend of mine had asked me for a design of an accordion. Apparently her father has an accordion that she wants to get designed into a piece and is going to take some pics of the instrument for me. She wants it in done in "flash" style, so it'll have a "sailor jerry" feel to it. Im looking forward to doing that one for her.

First Post (Project 001)

So this is my first post here on blogspot/blogger. I wanted to keep an online portfolio of artwork I have done, am doing, and will be doing in the future. Just something to keep a  record, or rather somewhere for people to see what kind of work I do, and what I have to offer.

So I will start with my most recent project. A friend of mine, Najwa, commissioned me to design a tattoo piece for her. She is heavily into snowflakes and wanted one that was 'girly, elegant and more flowy' than her previous one. So I came up with a few sketches. The first three were horrible. They looked too...too...structured. Almost like clock hands arrayed at 60 degree intervals. I kept going. I drew a couple of different versions and came up with nothing.

I put down the ideas for this project and took a break. A few days later I was drawing on an index card at home and I came up with the general concept of what I liked:

I took this into Illustrator, vectorized it, chopped it up into pieces, and moved the pieces around until I got more or less what I thought looked good. I found a good balance and emailed the final piece to Najwa. She emailed me back saying she loved the piece. She getting it tattooed on her birthday, (at the end of January) and I requested to go with her. I cant wait. Here is the final piece she requested along with her initial in the middle, (also as requested):

Below and to the right is the original piece I used to create the rest.
Let me know what you think about this.