This truly excellent piece was done by Mark Gibson of Monki Do Studio in Belper, Derbyshire, England. And no, Heretic138, those aren’t Nazi swastikas in the background.
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that’s freaking awesome 😀
My jaw actually dropped when I seen this, haha. Amazing work.
Wow, I was very surprised when I saw that this wasn’t Swazi Freakshop. Excellent job.
wow. belper is just around the corner from me, will go check ‘em out 😀
#3 Thats exactly what i thought when i first saw it. Beautiful piece still though!
Same as #2 Great work!
i love all the depth in this piece. amazing!
Haha, I agree with 3.
I was like… “Oh ya another big surprise from the S. Freakshop”.. but I was mistaken!
Dear lord. This is completely sick, I love every pattern and detail. This is what all back pieces aspire to be!
same here, totally thought it was swastica freakshop,
anyway, its amazing,
the face of the dragon is so fresh. so many people try to take something traditional like that and ‘make it new’ but never execute something so great like this.
wow.. truly amazing! so jealous right now
Called out!
Absolutely fucking awesome! I can’t stop looking at this..
Damn, that’s sweet work!
Perfect. Just perfect. I’m jealous. This is my screensaver for the rest of the week.
Holy shit this is amazing!
Im on my mobile and it still looks increadible!
#3 that was my first guess as well
Awesome tatt, and it doesn’t look ANYTHING like Marc’s work at ALL, we’ve seen enough of it to know that!
Wow this is stunning. Quite a simple image but so brilliantly executed – the best tattoos IMO!
And ffs branch out people… Swastika Freakshop are NOT the only tattooists in the world creating quality and original work O_o
amazing work:o)
Swastikas ? All i saw were plus-symbols ( + ) until it was pointed out… 😛
#21. Those plus symbols look to me like interlinked Byzantine crosses – I’ve seen that design on old Greek and Russian icons. If that was a deliberate choice it’s a very clever use of a historic design.
I like that the tattoo contains the usual japanese-style imagery of a samurai and a dragon, but the style is anything but traditional. Excellent.
love it… amazing detail but the + signs on the arm dont do it for me. Im all for patterns but they look so flat and straight instead of following a curve of fold in the fabric, but thats just me. AMazing piece all in all
it is amazing!!!
i like ony few tattoes, but this is really cool!
So they’re getting a visit when I go back home. That’s some amazing detail.
I see no swastikas?
oh, I see. had to really struggle to find them, looks like plus signs!
absolutely wonderful work!!
i only see “plus signs” here, hehehe…
fucking incredible
This is amazing