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I spent a couple hours working on a tattoo design today. I’ve been wanting to get one to commemorate my community placement, saying farewell to Pueblo, and my sunny disposition about life in general. I’ve been toying with some ideas, and always thought the Aztec sun god would make a great piece for my right shoulder.

After browsing pages and pages of images, I didn’t see any that fit what I was looking for, so I grabbed a couple to use as inspiration and created this design. It’s not 100% complete, but it’s close. I think I’m going to add a little more detail to the inner rings, and add some depth to the black flames that outline the image rather than have them so flat.

I really like the white-tipped, Japanese Ukiyo-e style wave paintings and have considered trying to work some around the design to get a bit of fire and water going, but tats are pretty expensive and I haven’t worked out how the total design will mesh yet, so I’m going to get the sun done first. Hopefully my checks will come in next week and I’ll be able to get it done then, but it’s probably going to have to wait until next month.

I need to find a good, detail-oriented tat artist. Right now I’ve just seen some of the work at the local shop, but I know many of you have tats and could probably recommend someone – so please do! They’ll need to be good at fine details and shading, as there are plenty of both in this design. Let me know who you know or where to go! 🙂

Edit: This one’s looking a lot better –
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