COMMISSION:: Quetzoroboros Tattoo

Update: Thank you very much to mystblade9 for helping me fix the dutch runes in the center. I guess they should be facing the right way of course? haha! Thank you SO much!

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Very very happy with this piece.
This was a tattoo commission from you-mad-b-r-o He plans to get it on his upper arm. In the end I believe it will be in color, but he chose to let the tattoo inker choose the palette, which is fine, I've never done a full grey-scale like this before, and it was amazingly fun.

Mike originally sent me a simple message asking if I'd be interested in " put together some imagery from a song, both literal and interpretive, and combine it into a cohesive visual, for a tattoo" and "jot down some ideas?".
Honestly, I didn't like the song much, it was interesting, so I sketched out this. Needless to say, mike thought I could do better... His ideas evolved along with the sketch, and soon we'd dug ourselves into a pit of epic.


And now, after 30 hours of work, we've melded our visions together into an immense symbolic tattoo.
_{A version without watermarks has been sent to Mike.}

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_{Step-By-Step Piece Progress in 19 Seconds}

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Complete Sped Up Recording of Progress

YouTube Video

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_{Official Stats
Time 30 hours
Program - Paint Tool SAI
Equipment - Intuos 4
Full Size - 4100x4700px}

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_{Disclaimer
All aspects of this design were specifically requested by the commissioner. I have produced this image on a purely business and artistic plane, and do not claim association or affiliation with any companies, organizations or religions that use any of the symbols for their own purposes. This design is custom, original and unique. It is not to be reused, redistributed, traced, copied, edited or manipulated in any way. Any use of this piece for any purpose must have written permission obtained from both the artist and the commissioner (Mike).}