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Hi,
I recently bought an Apple Ipad2 and use it mainly for shooting pictures and recording movies of the design process. I can easily add these photos to my twitter messages (@storm3d) and upload the movies to Youtube.com in a few clicks. It's also very usefull for quickly browsing the web...
There's only one big downside to Apple products, and that's the fact that Apple doesn't support the Adobe Flash plugin. For my website galleries, I use(d) the "simpleviewer" plugin, that creates a really nice and simple Flash gallery with a thumbnail and a larger image next or above it.
Now I use my Ipad, I see that a lot of mobile visitors cannot see the designs in my gallery, so I had to make changes to it.
My website design is based on the principles of the "Save the Pixel" e-book by Ben Hunt, which states that the design should be as simple as possible and every pixel should contribute to the main goal of the website.
Keeping this in mind, I redesigned the tattoo galleries. Here's a picture of the 'before' gallery:
The red marked area is the flash movie containing the maori tattoo gallery.
People could scroll through the images and see the number and price of the design.
Before ordering it, customers had to select the correct tattoo nr. from the dropdown list and hit the "Buy Now" button.
People often selected the wrong tattoo and bought the piece they didn't want.
To get rid of this problem I decided to implement the Lightbox plugin/script to my gallery instead of the simpleviewer movie.
One other advantage was that I could add the size and price of the design in the header/description and even add a Paypal button, so it became impossible to order the wrong tatoo design.
The new gallery is now looking like this, with the lightbox frame popping up:
So if you have an Ipad, Ipod or Iphone, please check it out and let me know if there's anything I can change to improve it.
Kind regards, Mark Storm
info@storm3d.com
Hi,
Last year I created a half sleeve tattoo in polynesian style for a Dutch customer. It's a bit of a mixed tribal style, it has some stylized flowers and other repetitive shapes:
Unfortunately the tattoo artist applied the stencil too small, so it now needs some extensions.
I marked the upper shoulder part that had to be inked.
I created a basic sketch and once it was approved I finalized it. To give you an idea how that process works I shot a short movie and placed it on youtube:
If you liked this video, or want to see more, please take a look on my youtube channel or visit my website Storm3d.com
Kind regards, Mark Storm
info@storm3d.com
www.storm3d.com
Hi there!
A few months ago since my last post, really busy with renovating part of my house. It's finished now, so now I have more time to let you know what I'm doing and I will try to post a few projects each week.
A month ago I received an e-mail from a customer who wanted me to decorate her spinning wheel with some nice maori inspired patterns, a really nice thing to do next to designing tattoos.
It's done in the modern wood "carving" technique; the drawing will be put on it by a laser, burning it into the wood.
Here's the original spinning wheel.
I created 3 different designs in the same kirituhi style, one for the large wheel, one for the pedals and another one for the arm of the spinning wheel.
Here are the sketches and some of the final designs that I did:
I really enjoy doing these kind of projects, so if you want me to decorate something with my designs, just let me know!
Any questions? Just let me know.
Kind regards, Mark
info@storm3d.com
www.storm3d.com
Hi there,
At the moment I'm working on a new collection of tribal tattoo designs, the first series consists of 4 forearm / lower arm tattoo designs, with feathers in a symmetrical style.
My plan is to create around 30 or 40 new tattoo designs in Maori/Kiri tuhi style, which will be added to my website/webshop at the end of April. But to give you a small preview, I will post the designs on my blog for you, so you'll be the first to see.
Normally I don't shade my designs, but to give the image another dimension and more body I decided to use it in this flash series.
Size is 28 x 15 cm (11 x 6 inches), but because it's a high resolution design, you can re-scale it.
Price for this design is 29,75 euro / 40 US dollars.
As soon as I receive your payment, you'll receive an e-mail with the high resolution design (.jpg file) and a sheet/ linedrawing for your tattoo artist.
Kind regards, Mark Storm
info@storm3d.com
www.storm3d.com
Hi!
It has been a while since I posted my latest sketches, but here are a few of my new designs.
A customer from the UK asked me to do a small tattoo, Kiri tuhi style for the spine, just between the shoulder blades.
I came up with this sketch:
Unfortunately I made the tattoo too wide, so I had to start a new sketch
(I finished this design for my own gallery, you can find it here, it's "Maori 117")
It was not exactly what she was looking for, she wanted it to be a bit less bulky and a bit more feminin.
The rough size is 15 cm high and 20 cm wide for the first sketch.
The second tatou is 15 cm high and 9 cm wide.
The final sketch looked like this and the high resolution tattoo is also shown.
Kind regards, Mark Storm
info@storm3d.com
www.storm3d.com
Hi,
It has been really nice job to do some filming and editing for my latest design "tutorial"
First I had to set up my new camera (Panasonic HDC-SD9) which records in Full HD quality ;) on a sd-card.
I recorded several scenes and edited it in Windowns Movie maker, I'm not a pro on editing, so I used this simple tool to add some titles and credits. Then uploaded it to youtube and Voila! here it is!
In this video to show you how I create and uptimized my designs. This time it's a forearm sketch in tribal style, which I'm tracing in the first video, I posted the sketches yesterday, so you can find it in my previous posting. In the second one you see how I scan the design, uptimize it and make a high resolution linedrawing in Photoshop CS3.
I received the following e-mail from my customer when he got the high resolution design:
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"Hi Mark,
Thanks for completing, I love it :)
Can't wait to get it done and will definitely send you some photos once complete.
As some feedback I would like to say that you have provided a very professional, simple and friendly service.
Excellent communication with your client and a great turnaround time from start to finish. I am recommending your designs and great customer service to friends and I will be checking in to your blog for your new designs for a future tattoo.
(Please feel free to use this quote, online or elsewhere)
Many thanks,
Rich Wallace."
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Here's the final result in low resolution.
Any questions? Just let me know.
Regards, Mark Storm
