An underwater session

I'm a little behind in posting. I've been booked solid for a bit (which is new to me) and finding time to post is getting tougher. I guess that's a good problem to have, but I have to make sure to keep Allen Tattoo current.

To start catching up, here's a really cool underwater scene I'm working on...

Jason follows this site and liked an earlier underwater scene I did. After talking with him, I kinda got a picture of the detail he wanted. I was a little nervous to lay it out, because I remember how daunting the first one seemed.

Once I started on it, though, all was fine. Most of the confusion was already solved from doing something familiar. So my goal in the first session was to get an outline and a slightly shaded version of the shapes. I wanted to be able to come back to it and know where I stood dimensionally.

Also, here's the actual Photoshop design. It's not pieced together exceptionally well, but enough for me to be able to pull the outline and render it seamlessly while I tattoo. I ended up purchasing some high resolution stock images for this one. I absorbed the cost, but that's no problem because I made the money back after the first session.