Buckethead

Sorry about the glare, but here's a larger version. And here's some other angles of the tattoo

This guy came in and wanted Buckethead on the back of his calf. He's a huge fan and was gung ho on getting a complete pose in full color.

What I enjoyed was the detail. He was specific on the orange "Funeral" band, and even curious about some of the colors. As I concentrated on the lettering and flow of the hair, I enjoyed letting myself loose on the fingerboard... I like how it looks hand made; inexact. In fact, I had a version of the outline with computer perfect frets ready to go, but it took everything in me to let it go and try it with personality.

Random info about the tattoo:
* The black stripe on the jacket really lent well to showing the rotation of the arms. * The hands are almost purely negative space; that's fun. Oh, and the guitar is negative space as well. It's, obviously, his skin with darker skin tones to add a subtle wood grain. * Yes, Buckethead wears a Michael Myers mask. * It's about 12, no, make that 11 inches tall.

The lightest part of the red is mixed with white and orange. The orange wards of a pinkish tone! Also, there's no black in the yellow; the darker tones are mixed from purple and brown. But there is some grey in the red pants. Right over the grey I went with some dark red, to normal (Starbrite) red.