Sugar demon? - Designing a tattoo for juvenile diabetes awareness. Pencil sketch AND digital rendering process!
Hey, Steemians! A friend of mine recently requested that I design a tattoo for him for juvenile diabetes awareness - here's the catch - it has to have a 'punk rock' feeling to it. So, naturally I was instantly interested and asked him if he had any ideas. His first response was, "What about a donut monster?"....A donut monster? What? But as we talked about it, the design started to come together.
Here's a picture of the pencil sketching I did to form the idea:
Just to give an overview of what Juvenile diabetes is and what long-term effects it can have if left untreated; juvenile diabetes or type 1 diabetes is a disease that is becoming more and more common in today's society. When a child's pancreas stops producing insulin, there are major issues that can occur. Uncontrolled blood sugars are very dangerous and even life-threatening. Being a child that has to instantly be thrust into learning how to control their blood sugars 24 hours a day and on top of that, being introduced to the ins and outs of the healthcare system with multiple doctors visits a month ...that is hard for not only the child, but for the parents also. Long term effects to uncontrolled diabetes of any type are as followed: Microvascular complications, Retinopathy, Neuropathy, gastroporesis, kidey disease and even failure, and heart disease and many more sub-category symptoms.
And here is a digital rendering of the sketch:
Cool, right? Notice how the donut has eye problems, along with an amputated leg and hand. It also has an axe to do damage to the other internal organs as it pleases....but the pretty colors..Don't you still want to eat it? Come on..it's just a little bite.
Here are some color schemes I sent him:
And last but definitely not least, this is the final digital rendering:
So what are your thoughts? What should I design next? Let me know in the comment! If it's a good enough idea, maybe it will make it onto Steemit!
Wow this donut really creeps me out :D Without the Juvenile Diabetes awareness written under it though it's hard to link it to overeating sweets. It would look really cool on a T-shirt too.
You are right, juvenile diabetes isn't usually associated with the overeating of sweets as it is an autoimmune disease. But it is easy to imagine that a young, sugar loving child growing up with this problem would have a very difficult time with sweets since they would constantly be adjusting their insulin intake. Sweets would quickly become an evil "no-no"...We all know that as humans we want what we shouldn't or can't have. haha
Yes! This on a shirt would be awesome! Great idea! Thanks for your vote and comment!
I want the T-shirt. Let me know when they're available! Thanks for taking the time to post.
you have the talent to become a tattoo artist if you want...
Wow! Thanks so much, @in2itiveart