If you haven’t checked out Emily’s work, you should take a minute and do so - incredibly gifted and versatile artist!
Wurlitzer Juke by Graham.
Tattoo career and comics career cross over for the first time when I tattoo a character from my own graphic novel Good Dog, onto my buddy Mark…
You can see more of my comics stuff here:
http://gschaffeetattoos.tumblr.com/
and, as usual, you can check out more of the tattoo stuff here:
This is a cover-up of a large color tattoo of the goddess Diana - with a larger version of the goddess Diana. I will probably refine the color and shading a bit when it has healed up, but we are essentially there :)
Awesome red tiger, by Graham.
The customer brought in this sketch of a duck and got tattooed on her arm, just as it was - not every tattoo has to be tightly-rendered :)
Here’s a pretty cute one of some baby owls by Graham - harder to draw than you’d think…
Irezumi: 1937 (by Blue Ruin1)
Ancient Siberian tattoo art, intricate patterns of 2,500-year-old tattoos, from the body of a Siberian ‘princess’ preserved in the permafrost have been revealed in Russia.
The remarkable body art includes mythological creatures and experts say the elaborate drawings were a sign of age and status for the ancient nomadic Pazyryk people, described in the 5th century BC by the Greek historian Herodotus.
She already had the bird - we spent an hour or so figuring out how best to frame it and eventually came up with this - totally fun to design and totally nail-biting to execute.
Hope she comes back so I can see how it looks healed :)
