Russian Prison Tattoos
I never posted my final Illustration class assignment from last semester because I left the original at school over winter break and didn’t get it scanned until yesterday. Our assignment was to illustrate a “tradition.” The tradition I chose was that of the language of Russian prison tattoos, specifically of the Soviet era. I had some other tattoo-related things in mind at first, but Russian prison tattoos have such a compelling history that, in the end, I couldn’t bring myself to do anything but this specific tradition. Gouache, ink and charcoal.
Have you seen Eastern Promises?
I highly recommend it if you haven’t seen it already.
Everyone’s been recommending it to me because of this, but I still haven’t checked it out yet; I want to.