If there isn’t a board brethren tattoo thread, there should be.
And hopefully you read my initial post above as 101% positive. The artist did a wonderful job from markings to facial and horn structure to the accent artwork. Animals are so very hard. And I don’t mean unicorns and rainbows, but big game animals especially. I’ve wanted a dall sheep skull for years, but sheep especially (and moose) go so quickly from cool to looking funny, off, dumb. Sheep and most twisters/spiral horns are hard to properly capture. Moose, well they just have that droopy donkey face that you have to be mindful of when capturing and conveying the image you want.
Look at engraving. Some exquisite scroll engraving on high end expensive rifles have some damn ugly animal scenes. And those are gifted artists doing the work. They are just hard. Even old Westley Richard tigers of the early 1900’s…but they are super cool in my book just because of the places and times in which those rifles were carried, and the quarry they faced. Maybe that’s what I need, a period correct Westley Richards tiger ensconced in intricate scroll.
Anyway, it’s a wonderful piece and think tattoos are such a great expression of interests, emotion, ties to memories of our lives we want memorialized in some way, shape or form.
