Phoenix

Colored pencil - 4 hours.

Long backstory incoming!

So this is a drawing that I was kind of hesitant to do at first. A friend of mine wanted to get a picture of a Phoenix as a tattoo since before I met him. It's in memory of his best friend, who passed away when he was in high school and loved the mythology of Phoenixes. I really did not feel like it was my place to even offer to draw it when he first told me, because it was a friend I had never met and I just felt like I should stay out of it. But in the two years I'd known him he was never able to find a picture he actually liked, and had a very specific image in his head. So I finally said I'd give it a shot. Plus, if he had someone else draw it and the bird anatomy was too off... it would have bothered me for life So here is my take on a black & blue Phoenix. It is exactly what he wanted, by the way He is going to get it tattooed on his calf.

Update : Here is the work in progress of the tattoo. Unfortunately it is very low resolution so it's hard to see, but it's looking nearly identical to the drawing. He's planning to get it finished in a few weeks. sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos…


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