alex_d

after finishing the massive series for the book early july, I've done some travelling for a month and completed a few pretty detailed b/w drawings on paper to be inked onto skin. they may or may not be colored, but I think that is always a pretty individual decision ... lately there has been many more requests in my work for tattoo designs... which I see as a huge appreciation of my work, I feel very honoured!

it's something completely different to the usual exhibitions at galleries and art shows I am doing, and maybe one day I can invite all the people carrying my drawings for life to do a show with them - no frames or canvases, just beautifully tattoed bodies running around ... ah well, nice dream.

this one will make a whole back:



and his one actually will pretty shortly be on someones back (the top 2 tentacles still need to be finished to go in the right place (crawling over the neck a bit):



... and this is the back it's gonna go onto:



a shoulder, also to be inked pretty shortly:



an inner forearm (the tentacles wrapping nicely around the arm top/sideways and ending in the palm of the hand at the bottom (the one that is cut off right now):



btw it will be the new forearm of the guy with the strong shoulders above (who by the way already carries this one, it will go below this one and the tentacles will be connected at the bottom of this one



and then this one:



which may go on a hip (after some changes) like this: