I’ve shown you the black half of this tattoo before, but I just had to share the full version, split up into balanced left and right luminosities, by Lionel at Out of Step (seriously, I know I push his work a lot, but do check out his gallery for more pictures).
By my friend Lionel from France (el.fahy.free.fr):
I’ve featured work by Lionel (Out of Step, France) here before, but I really liked the way this full-black forearm was capped off. I think I’d like it better though if the hand was fully black as well, as if he’d fallen into a barrel of black ink or something. But black hands are pretty weird looking I guess and would move the tattoo into a very different visual space.
Recently I posted an Orion constellation tattoo that I liked conceptually, so I thought it might be nice to post a few other constellations — for whatever reason Orion is the most common… I suppose along with the Big Dipper, it’s probably the easiest to identify when you’re a kid so it becomes a part of people’s childhood memory. Assuming it’s not something worse.
Anyway, let’s start off with Gemini:
How about Scorpius rising? This one is by Nina Collier at Ancient Arts in Renton, WA.
Finally, this isn’t really a constellation, but I like this star tattoo by French artist NOON at Boucherie Traditionnelle out of Troyes and Paris… There are a number of French artists working in similarly art-influenced styles (see also Lionel of Out of Step, on BME, and Yann, profiled on Needled.
If you like that, you can see more of his work on his website and on BME.
