Racist Tattoo--------?
Time to reveal the murkiest, seedy underbelly of my cartooning activities: I occassionally dabble into the Twilight World of Tattoo Design, selling images fairly regularly; it's very easy work that can pay fairly decently.
I do not ink direct onto human skin, and do not desire doing so .......... I do the customized dee-zines for the tattooists, only.
I started off doing this upon very dodgy ground indeed---------I met a tattooist who was great at traditional designs, but could not draw original cartoons for toffee------enter my smudgy inkings, and I managed to flog some variations of a very well-known comic-strip Scottish family, as well as a connected spikey-haired Scottish urchin.
I know for a fact that there are a fair few Scots walking around the Edinburgh area and beyond, sporting my silly cartoon designs; I have yet to actually meet any of these folks in the bars I visit, but rest assured, I would recognize my own drawings in a trice, and would gleefully point out this connection to respective punters.
Anyway: here is my most successful Scottish-themed tattoo to date-------a somewhat Anti-Anglo-Saxon proposition, that seems to go down fairly well in some Pictish Quarters.
Me, I can't stand either football, or Patriotism--------to me, they are both a sort of blinkered tribalism.
Lurve drawing cartoons, though.......
some of my customized tattoo designs can be seen at:
Ace Tattoos, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh. Just ask to see the Broons/Oor Wullie Section.......
I do not ink direct onto human skin, and do not desire doing so .......... I do the customized dee-zines for the tattooists, only.
I started off doing this upon very dodgy ground indeed---------I met a tattooist who was great at traditional designs, but could not draw original cartoons for toffee------enter my smudgy inkings, and I managed to flog some variations of a very well-known comic-strip Scottish family, as well as a connected spikey-haired Scottish urchin.
I know for a fact that there are a fair few Scots walking around the Edinburgh area and beyond, sporting my silly cartoon designs; I have yet to actually meet any of these folks in the bars I visit, but rest assured, I would recognize my own drawings in a trice, and would gleefully point out this connection to respective punters.
Anyway: here is my most successful Scottish-themed tattoo to date-------a somewhat Anti-Anglo-Saxon proposition, that seems to go down fairly well in some Pictish Quarters.
Me, I can't stand either football, or Patriotism--------to me, they are both a sort of blinkered tribalism.
Lurve drawing cartoons, though.......
some of my customized tattoo designs can be seen at:
Ace Tattoos, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh. Just ask to see the Broons/Oor Wullie Section.......
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