Artist Karadin Image copyright Karadin 2011 all rights reserved model Benedict Cumberbatch (as Sherlock Holmes) tattoo after Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849) Image depicts tattoing in a traditonal Japanese style. This image on tees, mugs link This image on prints link
As always, all the incarnations of this piece are lovely, though I find myself preferring the dragon version. Was it your intention for the Phoenix to blend with the peacock background and look as if it were bleeding over onto Sherlock?
With the dragon image I had used more dragons in the texture, and I've wanted to use that peacock background for awhile, so it's okay to me that they merge together a bit.
Oh I think I like this version better. Stunning, just stunning. The tattoo alone is just exquisitely done. And the sly implications of the artwork are just so teasingly pleasing...
words can't convey my admiration, nor towels mop up the drool. more riveting than a phoenix, and hotter than dragon's breath. and i'm not even that into the model.
ah that strategic hand. in the dragon image, the dragon's grasp at the curve of his waist. and the colors...
To be honest I thought this wouldn't work as well with Sherlock as it did with Benedict, but I love it! I love your choice of colours, they're very in-character (if that makes sense) and I swear, this one just seems more...decadent somehow. Sorry, I'm rubbish at proper feedback about art; it's more of a reaction, and in this case it's like "Mmmm..."*eyebrows wriggle* :)
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Date: 2011-07-21 03:04 pm (UTC)Thanks for putting this up in your store already!!
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Date: 2011-07-21 06:09 pm (UTC)sooo beautiful!
Date: 2011-07-23 10:08 pm (UTC)ah that strategic hand. in the dragon image, the dragon's grasp at the curve of his waist. and the colors...
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