David Beckham Realism Portrait
In this blog I would like to talk about what I have been up to lately, which it was varnishing my David Beckham realism portrait oil paint.
I follow an artist online and he painted a portrait of Notorious BIG, the rapper. And the oil paint he made it look like Biggie was living nowadays. The artist managed to add realism to an old image of Biggie taken in the 90’s. Portrait images of the 90’s are not very clear as the cameras back in the 90’s were not what it’s today. So when I saw that realism oil paint portrait of Notorious BIG, I was blown away, and I bought a realism portrait oil paint course, from the artist online.
In the middle of the online course, I was learning a few good tips on how to approach a realism portrait, oil paint in large scale. So my question was, who should I paint in my first large portrait oil paint project?
When I was wondering who should I paint, a documentary came out on Netflix of David Beckham, as a football fan, I thought it would be interesting to watch it. I started watching it, and I couldn’t believe how much I enjoyed it, of course I was aware of him, however I did not know how good of a footballer he was, maybe because when he played, it was around the same time as the Brazil golden era, 98-2006, so I was too busy following Brazil. But watching the documentary about David Beckham, it really opened my eyes about what he went through in his career, and to be honest I didn’t know how good he was.
That’s what love about documentaries, it shows a lot of facts you were unaware of, and it brings a whole new dimension to a subject.
Let’s not forget to mention something a lot of Tattoo Artists do no recognise or remember, David Beckham was the catalyst in British Tattoo industry, when he started getting tattooed I started my apprenticeship, and I was aware how busier all studios in the UK became including the one I was apprenticing at. It was almost like, after David Beckham got tattooed, people thought, it’s ok to get tattooed, which it was very good for the tattoo industry.
When I began tattooing, I remember getting a lot of requests in the studio, to tattoo the guardian angel David Beckham got tattooed on his back by Louis Malloy. It was such an iconic design, so that design was important to me in the beggining of my career. As I learned to tattoo, tattooing that guardian angel.
