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Lamassu tattooby `majnouna

Designs & Interfaces / Tattoo Design

Tattoo design for ~mskout : a Lamassu is a Sumerian mythological creature with a human head, wings, a scorpion's sting and the body of a bull OR the body of a bull with forelegs of a lion and rear legs of an eagle (which is what the "client" required). Ink pens cleaned up in Photoshop.

I'm no tattoo expert (this is the first I design) and I know there are a lot of considerations I have not researched very deeply, but that doesn't prevent me from having a clear aesthetic stance on the subject: they have to be streamlined, one colour (black) with stark areas against negative spaces. No gradients or textures, just flat areas of black and lineart that is not too flimsy for skin. This is my personal taste, not a rule of tattoo design, but I just don't want to have anyone comment with "This would look great with some gradient/colour/textures"