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Hi!It's been a while since my last post, I did some work on my website and added a twitter button to it, so you can follow my projects in realtime.I also added a retweet button to each post on this blog (the small green "tweet" button on the upper right corner) so you can easily forward my posts.Today two new and famous followers! Yoji Harada and Chris Nunez from the popular series "Miami Ink", welcome guys!A customer asked me...

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Hi there,At the moment, things are quite busy and I get a lot of requests for custom designs, sometimes up to 5 or 6 a day...! :)Really nice ofcourse, but unfortunately my time is limited and I really want to focus on each design, so I have to pick and choose the designs that I really enjoy and fit my style.My apology for all people I have to dissapoint...A few days ago I received an e-mail from a customer living in the UK. He...

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Hi,I have been working on an armband tattoo for a Dutch customer. He wanted a mixed tribal style with some nice sharp edges.The design had to be seamless and incorporate an existing star on the inside of his wrist.I'm not really keen on working around existing tattoos, but for this time it was not very much of a problem.The size had to be 7 cm wide and a full wrap around the wrist with a seamless fit.Here you van see how I started...

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Hi!Today I finished my design of the Catham Islands in a tribal style.My client wanted some adjustments to make it look less sharp, so I rounded some tribal elements at the bottom of the tattoo.Here's the final sketch and the high resolution design.Ps. I also created a profile and a small gallery on Deviantart.com and placed my latest designs on this site.Kind regards, Mark Storminfo@storm3d....

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Ah yes, the shoulder is a wonderful location of the human body for tattoo design, an area which is often the starting point of a sleeve tattoo, whether it be a quarter, half or full design.However the shoulder is a fabulous area for a single tattoo as well, and some of the most popular designs for this location includes tribal artwork, animals/fish, and perhaps a flowery masterpiece for the ladies.Have a gander at these pictures...

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Hi!I'm still working on some other custom tattoo projects, but there is some time left to add some new flash designs to my collection.These images are for sale on my website and you can also order it right on this page.I made a sketch for a forearm tatoo which can be used for both the inside of the lower arm as the outside.Here 's the first pencil sketch I made:The design is filled with a repetitive line pattern, simple but it...

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Hi,At the moment I'm working on a special tattoo. A girl from the Chatham Islands (a small island on the eastside of New Zealand) wanted a tattoo in the shape of her island, but then in an abstract maori inspired style.This is google map of the place:First I made a few quick images to see if she liked the idea of a tattoo pattern masked by the shape of the island:Unfortunately this was not exactly what she was looking for.The...

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Hi,As mentioned yesterday, I worked on a new flash design that you can order on this blog. I just finished it today and it's a combination of a Maori inspired tribal with some Samoan elements/shapes added to it.On a rainy afternoon (one of the many in Holland ;)) I just started sketching when watching television, so not really paying attention to what I was drawing, just doodling around.To my surprise it really just came out of...

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The ribs and side torso area is a rather common location for a tattoo design, perhaps more common among women, and the tattoo often extends below the ribcage in many cases.The type of designs range from anything under the sun, or anything you would have inked elsewhere on the body, however flowers and other vegetation seem to be most popular.Feast your pretty peepers on this picture gallery of excellent rib tattoo ideas, which...

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Hi there,Another nice project today, a client asked me to draw a New Zealand/Maori silver fern in my own "storm3d" style.The tattoo would be placed just below his arm to just above the hip, around 30 cm in height, quite a large tatoo.First I made a sketch:You can see a row of spearheads and some abstract leaves in a repetitive rythm.I added a curve to the fern so it would flow nicely on the clients body.The first sketch was approved,...

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Hi,As a hobby next to designing tattoos, I really like to fly powerkites. These kites have 4 lines, two for steering and two for braking.I bought my first powerkite a year ago, a 4m2 Peter Lynn Twister, which has a really good lift.This kite can lift me of the ground, sometimes even 2 meters in strong winds.Some people create their own kites, so I would like to try that. First I started with a 1.7 square meters, small kite.This...

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Love them or not, lower back tattoos have officially inked themselves as one of the most popular tattoo requests among women and even some men, but how could this be, the mere idea of these designs have garnered the negative slang stereotype of "tramp stamp", nevertheless these lower back stamps have flourished like a flower in the open sunlight.When its all said and done, the fact remains that some people enjoy the presence...

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