A Chinese dragon

The client found a dragon he liked from the internet. Lately this is happening more often than not. So I took the dragon and kept the shape, but altered the face and legs. You know, a little here and a little there.

It was his first tattoo and he sat like a champ. Some of the skin towards the back of the arm was rough and difficult to work with, but I just turned up the machine a little and it seemed to help a bit. This time I lined with a tight 5 and shaded with a 13 (00 bugpins). Because the bugpins are so tiny, the 13 fits perfectly in my 9 tube.