r/traditionalflash

Popped my cherry! Decided to use prisma colored pencils on arches cold press for my first sheet since I’m not as familiar with watercolor. This made me realize how easily micron pens dry out on this paper. Not sure if I was doing it wrong? I used size 1 for the checkered outline then had to use BR as it slid smoother and did not dry out. I bought a B5 nib so I’ll be using that in further sheets

I have a whole bunch of stuff like this on my page if you enjoy trad with a metal spin. Thanks for looking

What u think about these, ive been trying to come up with something more unique than regular trad by collaging or morphing multiple subjects, u like these?

11x14 Arches
Daler Rowney inks.
Thanks for looking.

Got loads of off-cut pieces of random paper. Gonna try and get through them this week.
Dog is a rosie camanga repaint but bonus points of you know the original reference.

Thanks for looking!!

Some recent work for my tattoo apprenticeship always hand drawn and painted

These two were done with Prismacolor colored pencil on the backside of Arches papers. Just wanted to try something different and it ended up beign more difficult than I first thought, haha.
Top sheet is from Cecil Rhodes, bottom one from Fred Marquand.
These are #101 and #102!

IG @carcrash_rhetoric

My dad is a marine and got this tattoo in 1977 stationed in Okinawa. The tattoo parlor was called Stinky's after the artist who did it. He described Stinky as an older Japanese man who had a bandaged up leg. The closest I've found to it was this old Cap Coleman flash. Curious if this is what Stinky had hanging on his wall. The tailfin is different on my dad's. Curious if any historians here might know of any other flash that looks like my dad's dragon that would've been floating around Okinawa in the 70s. Any help or references appreciated!