I didn't want to get too ahead of myself, i bought the magazines to use as sources to give me ideas for my drawings. I went back to researching the industry of drawing tattoo designs and decided that actual tattooing would have to be something to do in the future. In the magazines that i had i saw a few adverts for tattoo books that tattoo shops would buy and have on display in the shop. The term for the drawings inside was "tattoo flash". I thought i was onto something here and was going to find out how to create the quality images i wanted by learning "tattoo flash" but as it turns out my research showed that this is just a fancy name for a drawing.

However i did find one very very inspirational artist named "BOOG". He has one book named "from the streets with love" that i have seen in a few different tattoo shops and i would love to be able to compile a book of tattoos together similar to his. Obviously his is hundreds of pages thick and has several drawings on each page, for this brief i would like to produce just a few finished pieces, either printed and mounted on a wall or if i produced enough pages, bound into a book.

These are some examples of work by BOOG.