The drawing of an astronaut reading a book was my first commission from Skip N’ Whistle – a company offering eco-friendly screen printed t-shirts in New Orleans, USA. The company is known for its great selection of fun and clever t-shirt designs.

I was asked to draw a spaceman sitting down with his legs crossed and reading a book

One of the reasons why I was contacted by a representative of this company was that guys from Skip N’ Whistle were not quite happy with hard edge vector clipart that so many people used to translate their design ideas into drawings. And I cannot but agree that freehand drawings have so much more soul and life than those made with Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator or any other computer-based graphic editor. There is nothing better than a hand-made work totally created by human mind and hands. Hopefully, customers of Skip N’ Whistle will appreciate future hand-made designs of their t-shirts. I believe there will be plenty of popular Skip N’ Whistle designs re-made into freehand drawings by me and/or other artists because it seems that managers of the company are ready to go for it.

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Another reason I was hired to create the drawing for a t-shirt from Skip N’ Whistle was my distinctive drawing style of hatching and cross-hatching making my artworks look somewhat vintage. Skip N’ Whistle’s t-shirts and accessories feature a lot of vintage-inspired designs and guys from the company believed that it would be cool to make custom designs while keeping that so popular vintage vibe.

Unfortunately, I do not know the exact meaning of this drawing of a reading spaceman but the design looks fun which means that Skip N’ Whistle is likely to find a lot of buyers for t-shirts featuring an astronaut with a book.

Igor Lukyanov – Graphic Artist | Illustrator | Portraitist

An essential American Icon: The American Buffalo or Bison:

Bison Tattoo by Igor Lukyanov Plus Bison Art

In this blog post I want just quickly share an image of a bison tattoo created by a tattoo studio in the United Kingdom. The guys from the studio were nice enough to contact me and show the picture of the tattoo as this tattoo had been created on the basis of my original bison drawing. A guy from the tattoo studio told me that they had a client who had brought in my drawing to have it done as a tattoo.

Bison tattoo made from my drawing

I cannot call myself a big fan of the tattoo art, but I also cannot but feel, a little flattered that someone loved my bison drawing so much that he had made the decision to never part with the artwork by permanently imprinting the image on his skin. I also think that my drawing technique which looks like etching makes people believe that images in such style would make cool-looking tattoos.

By the way, here is my original drawing which served as the basis to create the bison tattoo.

My original bison drawing

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