marine realism tattoos

[CleanYourTank11]

Anybody on here have some ink, BUT Marine Realism, let's see! I'll start off, here is my start back from February, my man Deano Cook owner of a Pshyco Tattoo down in Marietta Georgia put in about 20 hours of work in 3 days for me. I'm going to see him at a convention in NY tomorrow for another 8 to 10 hours (his whole day) then a lot more sessions down south to keep it going. This will by far be my largest piece considering all said and done it'll be at least the whole upper half of body (minus few spots already taken up) plus legs, neck, hands etc etc.

 

[crox99]

Nice tiger shark!!

 

[CleanYourTank11]

Good eyes, Thanks, I wasn't so prepared for the first session. I'm going to transition more into aquarium type livestock with a few oceanic non aquarium critters in there.

 

[crox99]

I think you should put a spotted ray somewhere......

 

[CleanYourTank11]

Your on point, for definite stuff being incorporated I need an Australian harlequin tusk, blue ring octopus going on a hand and diamond blue dot ray, thinking on the foot working the scene up a leg. Unfortunately I'll be adding to this piece for a while between time, cost and travel. Not even ready for tomorrow but can't pass up the opportunity to see him local as opposed to a flight and hotel stay, it adds up quick!

 

[Cu455]

It looks awesome. The color and shading looks great. My friend has something similar going on. I thought you might of been him but I see you are from SI. What fish is under the shark? Not the remora. Are you going to put a diver somewhere? I am looking forward to seeing how it progresses. Some pilot fish for the shark will look cool.

What are your plans for the convention?

 

[CleanYourTank11]

Thanks cu455, it's a rainbow parrot, so far we went Caribbean but I'll have to venture from there somehow. I'm trying to keep stuff as real with location as possible. Unfortunately I didn't get anywhere near as much work done as we wanted due to allowing him to be a guest speaker and attend tons of photos and what not. He's hooking me up when I go back down south to see him. Just some new shading, sergeant major damels, another remora and outline of what will be snappers was done yesterday. Only about 2/3 hours of work from first mark of the marker til the end, only charged me for an hour. Overall it was a great show and I saw some insane work!

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

Dude ........mantis shrimp on your upper spine!

 

[CleanYourTank11]

Ahhh that's good thinking, I'm sure he could kill a peacock mantis!