Cinco De Mayo art by Mike Ray

Since, it's Cinco De Mayo this is appropriate. Mike Ray is the main illustrator for Ink Tycoon. He specializes in mascots and if you're ever on iStockphoto looking through illustrations, chances are you came across his work.

Work In Progress-Sugar Skull Woman

If you saw my twitter feed on Tuesday, you would know that I'm concentrating on a sugar skull influenced design. Sugar skulls are very intricate detailed pieces of art and has gain a lot of popularity through tattoos. It comes from the Mexican holiday the "Day of the Dead." It's always interesting to see how the sugar skull style is implemented on a pretty woman. I decided that I would like to take a stab at it and I personally feel so far so good. There is plenty of work to do be done, but here is the progress so far.