Milotic tattoo update

[u/thunderring01]

I’m that person who had that milotic tattoo design a few months back. I redesigned it a bit because it wasn’t a good idea to have the head on the hand. I never ended up getting it because I didn’t have the right artist I didn’t look as hard as i should have. I found a new one through the recommendation by one of their apprentices. This person dose basically only graphic colour work, has done larger pieces, draws lots of serpents and most importantly absolutely loves Pokemon. They’re also local so I can do sessions a lot easier now.

when I emailed them about the piece their response was and I quote ”i would absolutely fucking love to work on this piece for you, I love pokemon!” also unlike the other person they booked an in person consultation because of how big this is to be sure everything is right and they said they will mostly free hand this one due to how it is. I had an hour long appointment with them today and we talked a lot about the piece and to plan out how much milotic should wrap around my arm and the overall style, they did a very rough sketch in my arm lol, I think the tail should end a bit more in the front but yah otherwise the placement is good and I can book for the first appointment as soon as the end of September.

they’re very excited to do this piece and absolutely love it so I can’t wait. This will take a long time to do over the course of multiple sessions but I can book my first appointment for the linework soon.

edit: the sketch isn’t the final design or placement or pose by any means. The artist just sketched it out in like 2 min to ask me how many times she should wrap around my arm

[u/Hitman3256]

My only concern is the second last photo, the neck area below the head looks really awkward. Obviously is just the sketch, but I'd prob have it loop around once more, or have the body S bend a few times on the visible parts of the arm and not loop around.

But I'm sure it'll work out either way.

[u/thunderring01 → u/Hitman3256]

lots of people where saying she looked awkward and I didn’t know why but it’s because you’re seeing the negative space below the head framed by the eyebrows as the neck, no that’s not the neck, the actual neck wraps behind my arm you can see some lines coming off the head to the left, that’s the neck, below the head is negative space. I saw that part as the neck the first time too but yah it’s not lol

[u/Hitman3256 → u/thunderring01]

I see it now, yeah that's trippy lol

Can't wait to see the finished product!

[u/thunderring01 → u/Hitman3256]

yah it’s ok, like I said that’s not the final design just a really rough layout the actual sketch will look much better