This full body tattoo is based on the tattoo from the movie Red Dragon. It was begun earlier this year and is about twenty hours in and still in progress, being done by Eli Isiah of Banzai Tattoo in Pearl City, Hawaii.
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Red Dragon is a book, by Thomas Harris. It’s much much better than the movie.
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i don’t know if that creeps me out or if i think it’s really cool..
THE MINOTAURRRR!
Damn, it threw out my faux HTML. Shoulda been “tag end: The Monarch”.
and the tattoo from the movie/book is based on a painting by william blake. i think it’s called the great red dragon and the woman clothed in the sun but i don’t wanna go check it out.
still though, give blake his due.
So beautiful. Great work.
love how it wraps around his butt cheeks. I like the flow with the lines of the body.
Gawd full body tattoos are gorgeous. Not a body covered in tattoos, but one design covering such a large amount of skin/canvas is so beautiful
This tattoo is stunning. And the book was so much better than the movie, though the movie was pretty good.
never read the book… movie was fun though… funky tattoo 🙂 was the first tattoo that made me want a tail tattooed on me
this is certainly a quality tattoo. so beautiful
This cocoon has witnessed your sins! (nudges instigator)
looks amazing!
He’s no Ralph Fiennes, but it’s very nice.
Never read the book, but “Manhunter” is a much better version of “Red Dragon”. Michael Mann directed with William Peterson from CSI as the investigator, so good.
Meaning it was actually based on the Blake paintings?? let’s go back to oiginal source. (I know; I’m an art snob. I can’t help it). Blake painted a series of paintings based on a verse of Revelations describing Satan (the Great Red Dragon). They were painted between 1806 and 1809.
Sorry for that; I just feel the need to carry the allusion back to its source. And, apparently, flaunt a useless knowledge of classical history.
So.. Is he going to get a harelip too? (Since instigator got to the Monarch joke before me.)
But I must agree with the others. A very fine piece of work along that bit of skin. I loved it in the movie, because like others I enjoy a full-body tattoo. I especially like the tail that comes down and wraps about the leg. Something about those makes the tattoo.. I don’t know. Stand out a little.
So beautiful, it’s looks amazing
yes, it was absolutely based on the blake painting – which is stunning enough to be my PCs wallpaper…
nice tattoo.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/blake/blake_great_red_dragon.jpg.html
the painting.
Yougayahhh.
wow, that’s really beautifully done, but that tattoo terrified me in the film, so I’m in a strange state of mixed emotions now, heh.
I love this tattoo it is awsome! Even if it wasn’t from a film it is a great idea.
“Yes! I see the transformation!” yes…it’s from the movie. Great work tho
my name is josh im in nc and ever since i saw this tatoo i knew i was gona get it im currently having this tatooed on my back as is yes the hole thing would luve to send pics when its completed