Flash dragon cover-up
A William Webb dragon. Once it heals, I want to go over the cover-up part again.
Buckethead
Sorry about the glare, but here's a larger version. And here's some other angles of the tattoo
Danzig Shin
Red Rose from Sketch
This client wanted the rose to be pretty close to her sketch. So I fleshed out the petal shapes a bit more, while trying to keep the overall shape the same. Oh, and there are two "hidden" letters that had to remain relatively legible.
Consider the Lilies
Ashley wanted a black and grey lily on the left foot and the phrase, "Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin." Not only were her feet tiny, but the eleven word phrase took up a ton of space no matter how hard I tried to condense it.
I tattooed the flower first. It's all grey wash with pure black spots behind the petals. It's odd how specific you can concentrate to fade a gradient smoothly, but when you're tattooing over an area of tougher, elbow-like skin you just want the ink to stay in there. Drill the ink into the rhinoceros skin and make sure it stays...
I liked how it turned out.
Little Flash Butterfly
After getting her first tattoo (lower back) by someone else in the shop, this client came in rearing and ready to add a little butterfly above it a couple of weeks later. She picked this little guy off the wall and specified the colors. I added a slight wash just as a rear wing drop shadow, but the rest is pure pigment. It's amazing how smoother a fade will look mixing color without diluting.
Also, I was glad she didn't want it to touch her previous tattoo. The skin still felt like paper and was obviously shiny... still healing.
(previous tattoo is greyed and blurred out)
Ohana Hibiscus
Two different angles.
This lady wanted a purple Hibiscus on the back of her shoulder. I was happy with the dots and shading for pistil and stamens.
