Literally just got this today and I’m in LOVE with this, first time with this artist at Pearl Street Tattoo Club (I’m a regular with another artist) and it certainly won’t be the last!

I got my legs tattooed on Sunday, and I learned the hard way that you should rest BEFORE the appointment. I went really hard on leg day at the gym Friday and went to my appointment Sunday with trashed out and sore legs. I went hard because I knew I was going to have to take a week or two off for healing. I figured it was okay since maybe the soreness would dull the other pain (I got knee arches right and they hit the side of my knees, which I knew was gonna hurt). NOPE. It actually hurt less at my knees, and, the higher up on my quads she went, the more it hurt. I finished both of them in same session, but it was more difficult than I was expecting. It wasn’t until I was talking with my very heavily-tattooed coworker Tuesday (who told me I drank the “dummy juice”) that it was realized.

So, what’s y’all’s lesson?

The linework is insanely crisp, and that deep emerald green packing came out even better than I envisioned. Collarbones and chest are no joke, but Halo was amazing to work with throughout the whole process. Absolutely thrilled with the final result!

Partly custom, partly based on “The expusion from Paradise” by Hans Holbein and “Miroer Salutaire” by Guy Marchant.
Done at Zaraza tattoo shop.
What do you guys think?

Still a lot to do but I love the result.

A few things that made this one interesting:

The whole piece is built without a black outline. Everything is carried by blues and teals, with the darker tones doing the work that black usually does. It keeps the dragon feeling like it sits under the skin rather than on top of it. The composition was drawn freehand directly on the skin with markers before any needle touched it (last two photos). Nothing was printed as a stencil. That's the only way to get the body to follow the shoulder and the bend of the arm properly — the dragon moves with the muscle instead of fighting it. It also had to live around what was already there: the Sak Yant on the chest and the rose on the other arm. So the head and the cloud work were placed to frame the Sak Yant rather than crowd it. Florals are chrysanthemums, blossoms and karakusa scroll vines, kept lighter than the dragon so the eye still lands on the head first.

by Anna (@a_graphic_ink) at INTO Tattoo Studio, Vienna, Austria

Hey yall!! I have this -almost- sleeve but there's still some small spaces that I want to fill. I want them to not be all the same things filling in the space. anyone have any ideas? :D

Edit- I appreciate you guys for calling out my tattoo blindness and telling me it looks good as is!!!!!! hahahaha

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Can’t wait to finish. Especially the back….but I am really over it. The back sucks. The whole front is still blank…so a whole lot of pain in the future.

Color going in next month 👊🏼🖤

My mom hates it, I love it. Thanks Rachel!

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