Tuesday 20 March 2012

Winged Horse

Getting tattoo design commissions pouring in at the moment. It's rather nice to be asked to draw something that will be on somebody's body forever.

Bouquet

I read about a science experiment in 'Mutants' by Armand Marie Leroi (which I would recommend to anyone that has an interest in nature's wonderful errors) that I couldn't help but draw. In order to recognise the job of a certain acid within the early embryogenesis stages, the acid was isolated and dabbed onto the recently amputated limb buds of a tadpole. The poor tadpole then began sprouting bouquets of extra arms, legs, tails and possibly heads, but I definitely made that bit up in the drawing. So then the scientists knew that it was that powerful acid that was the driving force behind growth.