Painting a Pin Up Girl on a guitar!



So a few weeks back a musician friend, Sharon, asked what I'd charge to paint a pin up girl on her guitar. Ooh that sounds a fun little project I thought! It wasn't something I had any experience in whatsoever buuut I'd recently heard of Posca pens and thought they may be the way to go, cue a trip to Hobbycraft to buy a couple of sets.  I'd had a little Google for pin up guitar artwork for inspiration and was surprised to not really have much look in actually finding anything, but did come across a really cool neutral toned one by a guy who goes by the name 'Artichoked'.


The neutral colouring of that was part of the inspiration,  mixed with the style of Sailor Jerry's old school tattoo artwork.

We played about with different scale ideas but went for a larger image which I mocked up digitally on a photo of the guitar to plan out the pose etc.  Sharon wanted there to be a likeness to herself in the face so we worked on that too whilst also keeping a stylised look to the drawing.

 



So, on to the guitar! Eep!

I found some carbon paper in my little studio which was a great help in the planning process as it meant I could sketch out the design on paper first to get it right before transferring it onto the guitar. I managed to  print just enough of the details this way in order to enable me to go over it and copy the linework down in black before adding the white and grey. 

Here is a video of the process!

 


I'd love to do more things like this so if you're a musician and fancy sprucing up any of your instruments with some original artwork get in touch! 





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