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Posted on March 12, 2006 @ 9:46 am by massimo | Filed under: blog, fun, people, wordpress

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This is my ideal tattooed savage and I reckon well to meet him one day!
He has a strong linkage with the Pacific Ocean’s ancient islanders whose captain Cook’s lieutenant wrote the first account… Polynesians and Maori used to have their body completely tattooed: the English sailors liked this habit so much to spread the fashion over Europe. Their attempt was so largely successful that now days fully tattooed bodies, - from top to toe - always belongs to white people. I must say that these noveau savages really amaze me greatly, every time I meet them going for a beach strolI… Once I went to a local tattoo parlour in Kho Samui and tried hard to convince the ever smiling Thai fellow, to buy some doodles of mine which I had precisely done to have somebody’s chest tattooed with (not mine, please…). No way!
So nothing remains but tattooing a digital silhouette. Here is my “hammerhead pattern” - a replica of those early sketches of mine. If you like this illustration, my previous posts Neptune and Surfer will not disappoint you!

Illustration Friday’s topic is tattoo.

 

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12 people have left comments

Great colours and great design.

bubblegum wrote on March 12, 2006 - 2:33 pm CET

Cool!!
I’m thinking that a hammerhead tattoo would be a really popular item around the beaches!
I feel for your surfer dude. On the US.Carolina beaches, there’s a nasty parasite that creates a similar effect–except it’s not the bite,it’s the ITCHING… for days and days… and then everything peels off.
Yuck.
So you had dengue? Yikes.

Liz Jones wrote on March 12, 2006 - 2:59 pm CET

Wow! Love it!

Sue wrote on March 12, 2006 - 3:00 pm CET

Amazing. Great work and use of ovals!

Willie wrote on March 12, 2006 - 3:56 pm CET

The contrast of colours is excellent! I think it might be quite painful though!

Caroline wrote on March 12, 2006 - 4:26 pm CET

This is very strong, powerful. Great work.

Katili wrote on March 12, 2006 - 11:55 pm CET

This is really cool. I love the mandala like quality of the tattoo. Great stuff Love.
love

The Unknown wrote on March 13, 2006 - 11:41 pm CET

Cool colours!

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Giles wrote on March 14, 2006 - 4:49 am CET

Your post reminds me that I once read about the Japanese Yakzua (?) culture whose gang members were tattooed from top to toe as well. Nowadays there seems to be an odd museum somewhere in Japan where they preserve some of the unique human tatooed skins.
You have a great sense for symmetry. Cool!

cristosova wrote on March 15, 2006 - 6:45 pm CET

I love this! Like old diagrams - great color and design! Really unique and just wonderful!

tiffini elektra x wrote on March 29, 2006 - 4:23 am CEST

This is my favorite of your illustrations thus far. I like how it evokes the primitive imagery of African masks yet also reminds you of a technical schematic with the oval pattern. The interesting clashes of style is something I’d love to see more from you. Keep it up!

Dat Nguyen wrote on May 4, 2006 - 12:46 pm CEST

savage……..?

Catalina wrote on May 10, 2006 - 1:44 pm CEST

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