octopus | Jakobbelbin Tattoo Artist

Walking The Plank. . . .. …/. ///. .

Its finished! The biggest drawing i’ve done in a while and the first finished piece of 2015.. . /. . I give you a pirate themed sleeve with a slightly more modern take on it. I’ve mixed up the order and scale of the main themes, where in most sleeve the ship takes center stage, I’ve given credence to the octopus and compass and added a huge abstract paint smear which blends into the waves instead of filling exclusively with flowers and treasure.. ././. .I am very pleased with how its turned out. /

Pirate sleeve Commission ../ .Black ink and Blue Posca on Card
75cm x 30 cm

Below.. Close-ups.

: The Ship./ .

: The Girl. . /./ .

: The Compass./.

: The Anchor. ../.

: The Octopus../ .

: The Treasure. . .

January 7, 2015 | Categories: Tattoo | Tags: art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, Black Ink, black roses, boat, Brighton, compass, coral, drawing, freelance tattoo design, full sleeve design, human, Illustration, Jakob Belbin, New, octopus, pin up girl, pirate, pirate pin up, pirate ship, pirate sleeve, portrait, posca pens, roses, sailor, sails, sea, sea weed, Ship, Tattoo, tattoo art, tattoo design, traditional pirate sleeve, treasure, Visual Arts, waves | Leave a comment

Scrub Tha Decks. .. .././.. . ./ .

Making progress on the pirate full sleeve design.. . /. /. Finished pictures to arrive tomorrow. . /

: Sails. . ./. .

: Compass. ./ .

January 5, 2015 | Categories: Tattoo | Tags: anchor, art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, black roses, drawing, human, Illustration, Ink, Jakob Belbin, New, octopus, pin up girl, pirate, pirate ship, portrait, sea, Ship, Sleeve tattoo, Tattoo, tattoo art, tattoo design, traditional pirate sleeve, Visual Arts, waves | Leave a comment

All Hands On Deck!!!!.. . . / ./…/

Working on a new commission, a full length pirate sleeve, drawn to scale./. . ./ .
The brief was to include an octopus, a pirate ship, a compass and a pirate pin-up girl./ I decided to keep it quite traditional, so after a bit of research i also included treasure, black roses , an anchor and coral to fill up the gaps and tie the whole piece together./.

: Octopus Outline

: Penciled Outline../. Blue Smear

: Inking The Compass

: Inked Pin-up

After a days work i managed to get pretty much the full outline inked and the blue water/paint smear filled and tidied up./.
The rest of the piece is going to be shaded with black ink for a dark high contrast finish./

So far.. . .. /././

: Shaded Roses and Compass

: Compass Close Up

: Ship Close Up/ Crashing Waves

: Pin Up Close Up

January 3, 2015 | Categories: Tattoo | Tags: art, Artist, Arts, Arts and Entertainment, Black Ink, black roses, compass, coral, drawing, freelance tattoo design, full sleeve, human, Illustration, Jakob Belbin, New, octopus, pin up girl, pirate, pirate ship, skulls, Tattoo, tattoo art, tattoo design, traditional pirate sleeve, treasure, Visual Arts | Leave a comment

All Those Prints Scattered. ./. /. /.

For the show fragments i put together a series of prints././ The ideas follow on from my “Virus” series where i became obsessed by pixelated images. I followed on with the same concept of fusing pixels with organic objects, this time using animals as my ‘host’. These images were created using computer manipulated ink drawings./ ./.