How to Draw Tattoo Designs of a Gnome and a Centaur
Gnome Tattoo Drawing Introduction: What Is a Gnome?
Gnomes are fictional creatures that often appear in fantasy novels. Most often they are small creatures that live on or in the ground. They are often identified with garden dwarfs, but they are often imagined as a small bearded little wizard in men’s clothes.
In the trilogy Lord of the Rings, they are presented as benign shy creations living underground. According to Tolkien, they are great mechanics and engineers. They create many machines. Their main vehicles are mechanical walkers. Their city was destroyed by the underground monsters and since then, they live together with the dwarfs.
They also appear in the Harry Potter novels of J. K. Rowling, who presented them as small dumb creatures with brownish skin and head shaped like potatoes, which live in large gardens. They usually live in groups and do not have magical abilities.
Rowling mentioned the process of de-gnomification, i.e. cleaning the gardens of the gnomes. That’s done by taking gnome and hurling it far away, so it won’t know how to go back to the garden. That should be done quickly because otherwise gnome can bite the person throwing it.
Tattoos of gnomes are fairly easy to draw, but only if you know how. So, carefully read the next part, in which we will show you how to draw a gnome.
In the trilogy Lord of the Rings, they are presented as benign shy creations living underground. According to Tolkien, they are great mechanics and engineers. They create many machines. Their main vehicles are mechanical walkers. Their city was destroyed by the underground monsters and since then, they live together with the dwarfs.
They also appear in the Harry Potter novels of J. K. Rowling, who presented them as small dumb creatures with brownish skin and head shaped like potatoes, which live in large gardens. They usually live in groups and do not have magical abilities.
Rowling mentioned the process of de-gnomification, i.e. cleaning the gardens of the gnomes. That’s done by taking gnome and hurling it far away, so it won’t know how to go back to the garden. That should be done quickly because otherwise gnome can bite the person throwing it.
Tattoos of gnomes are fairly easy to draw, but only if you know how. So, carefully read the next part, in which we will show you how to draw a gnome.
Step By Step Drawing a Cute Gnome Tattoo Design
Draw three simple objects, a big circle in the middle for the head of the gnome and two elliptical objects for its legs.
Add face features, like the eyes, nose and the mouth. In this step, you should also draw the toy that the gnome is holding.
Draw the hair of the gnome, as well as the hair, while making bolder the lines that make the face features.
Add all of the remaining details, like the features of the toy. Also finish with hat and the hair.
Finally, make all the lines more thick. You should get a cute drawing of a baby gnome. The final tattoo drawing should make you feel sympathetic, but it’s only our suggestion. If you wish, you can make the little gnome look evil. It’s totally up to you.
Centaur Tattoo Drawing Introduction: What Is a Centaur?
Centaurs were mythical people, half man half horse, who lived in Thessaly. With few exceptions they were wild creatures, hostile to humans. The oldest myths do not say anything about their origin.
The poet Pindar claimed that the father of the first centaur was a man named Centaur, who was allegedly the son of the King Ixion and Daphne, the incarnation of clouds. The young generation of centaurs lost its rawness and wildness and joined the satyrs accompanied by the god Dionysus.
Centaurs in the ancient mythology could be either male or female. The female version of the centaur is called the centauress. Centaurides can be found in lots of ancient Greek art pieces and Roman mosaics. Later, female centaurs draw inspiration of artists in renaissance, but also in the 20th century.
If you want to learn how to draw a well-designed lady centaur tattoo, keep close attention to the next part.
The poet Pindar claimed that the father of the first centaur was a man named Centaur, who was allegedly the son of the King Ixion and Daphne, the incarnation of clouds. The young generation of centaurs lost its rawness and wildness and joined the satyrs accompanied by the god Dionysus.
Centaurs in the ancient mythology could be either male or female. The female version of the centaur is called the centauress. Centaurides can be found in lots of ancient Greek art pieces and Roman mosaics. Later, female centaurs draw inspiration of artists in renaissance, but also in the 20th century.
If you want to learn how to draw a well-designed lady centaur tattoo, keep close attention to the next part.
Step By Step Drawing a Muscular Centaur Tattoo Design
You start drawing a centaur by drawing objects that would become its head and the body.
Add more lines to do the body of the centaur.
Add more details to the upper body of the creature. Draw the breasts and the hands of the female human part of the being.
Make the lines thicker which make the legs and the lower part of the creature’s body.
Add details to the head, like the horn and the hair. Also, make lines of the tail more thick.
This is how the final drawing should look like. You should get the tattoo drawing of a centaur with a formidable male face and a strong muscular body of a horse.
Conclusion
Hopefully you are now familiar with the ways of producing tattoo drawings of several different mythical beings. But not only that, if you read the short story about each of the creatures, you learn about where they come from, and what people thought of them in the past.
Hopefully, you had fun reading the introduction in each tutorial, as our goal wasn’t simply to make you familiar with the techniques of how to draw tattoos of mythical creatures. We also wanted to make the reading fun by talking about each being separately.
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Our reasoning was that if you get to know these fantasy creatures better, you will fall in love with them. And once you love them, you will be more enthusiastic about drawing tattoos that depict them.
After following the tutorials, we are sure you’ll be able to draw those mythical creatures confidently. However, it is important to note that the things you’ve learned so far are merely the basics. In order to be very good at drawing all manner of tattoo designs, constant practice is compulsory. You can’t be a top-notch tattoo designer without steady, consistent practice.
So why should you keep on conceptualizing and drawing tattoo designs even when you’re done following the tutorials? Well, apart from how awesome it is to draw tattoos depicting various mythical creatures like elves and centaurs, it will also be very good for you mentally. Drawing sets your mind free and makes you relaxed.
Even if you’re not interested in becoming a professional tattoo artist, drawing itself is a great hobby that has the ability to help you forget about all of your everyday problems. Once you get into the state of flow, the only thing that will be on your mind is drawing.
Hopefully, you had fun reading the introduction in each tutorial, as our goal wasn’t simply to make you familiar with the techniques of how to draw tattoos of mythical creatures. We also wanted to make the reading fun by talking about each being separately.
See griffin and dragon eye tattoo art tutorial here
See elf and mermaid tattoo art tutorial here
Our reasoning was that if you get to know these fantasy creatures better, you will fall in love with them. And once you love them, you will be more enthusiastic about drawing tattoos that depict them.
After following the tutorials, we are sure you’ll be able to draw those mythical creatures confidently. However, it is important to note that the things you’ve learned so far are merely the basics. In order to be very good at drawing all manner of tattoo designs, constant practice is compulsory. You can’t be a top-notch tattoo designer without steady, consistent practice.
So why should you keep on conceptualizing and drawing tattoo designs even when you’re done following the tutorials? Well, apart from how awesome it is to draw tattoos depicting various mythical creatures like elves and centaurs, it will also be very good for you mentally. Drawing sets your mind free and makes you relaxed.
Even if you’re not interested in becoming a professional tattoo artist, drawing itself is a great hobby that has the ability to help you forget about all of your everyday problems. Once you get into the state of flow, the only thing that will be on your mind is drawing.